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 : Manchester Wythenshawe

CANDIDATE : Bridges

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. W. Bridges was born in 1904, and, after being a coalminer for a period, became a railway shunter. He was, in 1936, elected a member of the Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council, and became an alderman in 1945. In 1948-49 he was president of the Welsh Regional Council of Labour, and is secretary of the South Wales and Monmouthshire district council of the National Union of Railwaymen.

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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 : Nelson and Colne

CANDIDATE : Green

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Green was born in 1911 and was educated at Brighton College and London University, where he studied history and economics. In 1935 he joined a Blackburn manufacturing firm as London and export manager. Volunteering for the Army, he was commissioned in 1942, and held a staff appointment in the Middle East, with the rank of major. On demobilization he returned to his firm to become a resident director, and is also a member of a Blackburn firm of textile engineers.

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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 : Northampton

CANDIDATE : Paget

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. T. Paget, K.C., is the elder son of Major T. Guy Paget, former Conservative M.P. for Market Bosworth. He graduated at Cambridge University and took an honours degree in law and economics. He was called to the Bar in 1934, took silk in 1947, and defended Field-Marshal von Manstein in the last of the German war trials. He joined the Labour Party in 1929, and was returned for Northampton in 1945.

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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 : Nottingham North West

CANDIDATE : Whalley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. H. Whalley, a retail house furnisher in Nottingham, was born in 1894. President of Burwell Artisans’ Golf Club and member of Nottingham City and County clubs, he recently played in the English Amateur Golf Championship. He is a Methodist local preacher and Sunday school superintendent.

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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 : Oxford

CANDIDATE : Pakenham

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lady Pakenham, born in 1906, is a grand-niece of the late Joseph Chamberlain, and a second cousin of the late Sir Austen Chamberlain and Mr. Neville Chamberlain. In 1935 she unsuccessfully contested Cheltenham. She married Lord Pakenham in 1931, and has eight children. She is actively interested in housing and adult education.

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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 : Portsmouth Langstone

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Jones, a member and former chairman of Havant U.D.C., was born in 1890 and educated at Highfield College, Leigh. He went to Canada in 1911, and returned to serve in the first world war, during which he was granted a Regular commission for special services in the field. He joined the Russian Relief Force, and later took part in the Irish Rebellion, 1922.

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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 : Reading North

CANDIDATE : Marling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir J. S. V. Marling, only son of Sir Charles Marling, a former British Minister in?Denmark and Holland, was born in 1910. Commissioned in the 17/21st Lancers, his Army and other travels took him before the war to most European countries and to Asia. He fought in Italy, helped to plan D Day, and attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He wrote the history of the closing stages of the Eighth Army’s Italian campaign. He retired from the Army in 1947.

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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 : Rossendale

CANDIDATE : Greenwood

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Anthony W. J. Greenwood is 38, and the son of Mr. Arthur Greenwood, former Cabinet Minister and Treasurer of the Labour Party. A former president of the Oxford Union, he was on the Ministry of Information staff in Russia and the Middle East early in the war, later serving as an R.A.F. officer. After the war he was with the Chiefs of Staff organization and the Reparations Commission. He entered Parliament in February, 1946, at a by-election at Heywood and Radcliffe.

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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 : Salford East

CANDIDATE : Sinclair

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Sinclair, aged 52, was educated at Reading College and Manchester University. He is managing director of a local leather goods manufacturing firm. He is a member of the Export Development Committee and of the executive of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. In the first world war he commanded a company of The Manchester Regiment, and served in the Home Guard in the last 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 : Sheffield Hillsborough

CANDIDATE : Darling

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Darling, former railway worker, born in Crewe in 1906, began work at 14, joined the A.E.U. and became a national figure in the Labour youth movement. Through the W.E.A. he won a scholarship to Liverpool University, and later graduated in economics at Cambridge. In 1930 he took charge of the research department of the C.W.S. When war broke out he joined the B.B.C. reporting team and is the industrial correspondent.

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