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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Honiton Constituency – Biography of Barrington

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Honiton Constituency – Biography of Barrington

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Honiton

    CANDIDATE : Barrington

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Brig. Guy Barrington is 45 years of age, and entered the Army through Sandhurst. Much of his service in the last war was in India and Burma, and he finished up as Brigadier in charge of administration on the staff of Field-Marshal Sir William Slim. Retiring in 1946, he took up farming at Hawkchurch in Devon.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Totnes Constituency – Biography of Tapscott

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Totnes Constituency – Biography of Tapscott

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Totnes

    CANDIDATE : Tapscott

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Tapscott has for 25 years been a militant trade unionist. He is a former president of the Plymouth and District Trades Council and he served on the central committee of the Plymouth Trades Council during the 1926 strike. Between the wars he was active in the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement, and as secretary of the S willy and North Prospect Tenants’ Association he recently organized opposition to local increases in the rents of council houses.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chester-le-Street Constituency – Biography of Millican

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chester-le-Street Constituency – Biography of Millican

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chester-le-Street

    CANDIDATE : Millican

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. J. M. Millican is 32, and head of a Newcastle firm of glass and paint manufacturers. Educated at Loretto School, Edinburgh, he entered the family business, and is chairman of the North-Eastern Glass Manufacturers’ Association. During the war he served in the Royal Artillery and rose to the rank of major. He is a leading Rugby player, captained the Northern team, and is secretary.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sedgefield Constituency – Biography of Walford

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sedgefield Constituency – Biography of Walford

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sedgefield

    CANDIDATE : Walford

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. J. E. S. Walford, a Regular officer for 29 years until 1947, serving first with The Worcestershire Regiment and then with the Royal Corps of Signals, was educated at Malvern and Sandhurst. He is a well-known cricketer, having played for Worcestershire, the Army, the M.C.C., and All Egypt. His wife was Conservative candidate at Darlington He was born in 1899.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harwich Constituency – Biography of Janis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harwich Constituency – Biography of Janis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Harwich

    CANDIDATE : Janis

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. M. Janis was taken prisoner of war at Singapore and held by the Japanese for three and a half years, working on the Siam railway and being later transferred to Japan, where he became a liaison officer and interpreter. Now aged 37 and a leather goods merchant, he began life as a shop assistant.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gloucestershire South Constituency – Biography of Crosland

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gloucestershire South Constituency – Biography of Crosland

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gloucestershire South

    CANDIDATE : Crosland

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. A. R. Crosland (30) is a lecturer on economics at Oxford University. A member of Oxford University Labour Party, he is on the national executive of the Fabian Society and was president of the Oxford Union in 1946. During the war he served with the Airborne Division in North Africa and Austria.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : New Forest Constituency – Biography of Fry

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : New Forest Constituency – Biography of Fry

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : New Forest

    CANDIDATE : Fry

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Fry, aged 37, is a pilot in B.O.A.C. and a former member of the British Airlines Pilots’ Association. Educated at St. Paul’s School, he took a short service commission in the R.A.F. and afterwards joined Imperial Airways.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hemel Hempstead Constituency – Biography of Moss

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hemel Hempstead Constituency – Biography of Moss

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hemel Hempstead

    CANDIDATE : Moss

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Moss, born in 1913, is a secondary schoolmaster at Hertford. He has wide experience of adult education through the National Council of Labour Colleges, the W.E.A., and the Co-operative movement. He has been secretary and chairman of the Hertford Divisional Labour Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huntingdonshire Constituency – Biography of Thompson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huntingdonshire Constituency – Biography of Thompson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huntingdonshire

    CANDIDATE : Thompson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. G. F. Thompson, head of a firm of solicitors at Esher (Surrey), where he lives was born at Hounslow (Middlesex) in 1902 and educated at Hampton Grammar School. At 14, he started work as a clerk for a London legal firm, studied in his spare time, and qualified as a solicitor in 1931. During the war he served in the R.A.F. as a flight lieutenant in the Air Ministry Secret Branch. He was a member of Esher Urban Council from 1934 to 1946, is a liveryman of the Solicitors’ Company, and a freeman of the City of London.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Faversham Constituency – Biography of Graham

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Faversham Constituency – Biography of Graham

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Faversham

    CANDIDATE : Graham

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss E. Graham, aged 23, is a former secretary of the National League of Young Liberals and has recently been working in the family business in Yorkshire.

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