Category: British Politics Facts and Figures

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aberdeen North

CANDIDATE : Hughes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Hector Hughes, K.C., had twice unsuccessfully contested North-West Camberwell before becoming M.P. for this division in 1945. Born in 1887, he was called to the Bar in 1923 and took silk in 1932. He has served on the se!e;t committees on Publ?c Accounts, Estimates, Elections and Statutory Rules and Orders.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dunfermline Burghs

CANDIDATE : Clunie

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Clunie was born in 1889, became a house painter, and was for 18 years a member of the executive of the Scottish painters’ society, and three times its chairman. He has been chairman of the local Trades and Labour Council since 1926, and has served on the Dunfermline Town Council and the Fife education authority.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh Pentlands

CANDIDATE : MacNair

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. A. MacNair is a Glasgow man of 45 who went to George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh. After eight years in the Far East he worked in 1939 as election agent for the Scottish Liberal Federation, and during the war was on the security staff of the regional commissioner for Scotland.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Cathcart

CANDIDATE : Mitchell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. R. Mitchell, a Glasgow solicitor, was born in 1912, a son of Mr. E. Rosslyn Mitchell, who defeated the late Mr. Asquith (afterwards the Earl of Oxford and Asquith) in Paisley. As a lecturer he has been active in Labour propaganda locally, and he served as a corporal in the R.A.F. during the war.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Kelvingrove

CANDIDATE : Elliot

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Walter Elliot, who had previously represented Lanark, Kel-vingrove, and the Scottish Universities, returned to fight Kelvingrove after the university seats were abolished. He had been defeated here in the 1945 election by only 48 votes, after having been member for the division since 1924. He has held a number of offices, including that of Secretary of State for Scotland, Minister of Agriculture, and Minister of Health. He holds honorary degrees from five universities. Born in 1888, he was educated at Glasgow Academy and Glasgow University.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Shettleston

CANDIDATE : McEwen

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. McEwen, a journalist on the staff of the Daily Worker in London, fought the Dunbartonshire by-election in 1941. At 26, he was the first Labour member of Ross County Council, and joined the Communist Party in 1939. He is a graduate of Edinburgh University.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kirkcaldy District of Burghs

CANDIDATE : Hubbard

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. F. Hubbard, elected for Kirkcaldy in 1944, is an official miners’ candidate — one of four in Scotland. He is president of the Scottish Old Age Pensioners’ Association. Born in 1898 and starting work as a grocer’s apprentice, he became a miner and continued in that capacity until he received a serious leg injury in 1941. He is vice-president of the British association of old-age pensioners.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : North Angus and Mearns

CANDIDATE : Adam

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Adam was born in 1914 and educated at Rugby and Sandhurst. He fought Thurrock, Essex, as a Conservative in 1945 and, after a dispute on policy with the Conservatives, joined the Liberal Party. A Regular Army officer for 13 years, he retired as a major in 1947. He is manager of a mixed farm near Aberdeen, and managing director of an Aber-de^n firm. He is an advocate of co-partnership.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kilmarnock

CANDIDATE : Thomson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. G. Thomson unsuccessfully contested West Edinburgh in 1945. A partner in an old-established firm of fireworks manufacturers, he reported on German explosives plants for the Government. During the last war he served in the ranks in The Black Watch and the Royal Engineers. He was born in 1917.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dunbartonshire East

CANDIDATE : Whitelaw

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. W. S. I. Whitelaw, a landowner and farmer, aged 32, was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a major in the Scots Guards during the war and gained the M.C. and was mentioned in dispatches for services in Normandy. He was a Cambridge golfing Blue in 1938-39.

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