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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hampstead Constituency – Biography of Gore

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hampstead Constituency – Biography of Gore

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hampstead

    CANDIDATE : Gore

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Gore, son of a miner in South Wales, is 25, and joined the Communist Party while at college, tn 1943 he became a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, and saw service in the Far East. On demobilization he became an L.C.C. teacher, and now works in St. Pancras. Last year he was secretary of Hampstead Communist Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kensington North Constituency – Biography of Evans

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kensington North Constituency – Biography of Evans

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kensington North

    CANDIDATE : Evans

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Carey Evans, aged 26, is a barrister. He is the eldest son of the late Sir Thomas and Lady Carey Evans, and grandson of the first Earl Lloyd-George. Educated at Oundle and New College, Oxford, he served as a bomber pilot during the war and was awarded the D.F.C. This is his first political contest.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham North Constituency – Biography of Copeman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham North Constituency – Biography of Copeman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewisham North

    CANDIDATE : Copeman

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. B. Copeman was born in 1907, and was left an orphan at the age of seven. Educated at Dr. Barnardo’s School, he spent 11 years in the Royal Navy. For a time a member of the Communist Party, he joined the International Brigade in Spain in 1936 and later commanded the British battalions. He was decorated for A.R.P. work in the last war. Joining the Labour Party in 1944, he was chairman of Lewisham Housing Committee 1945-49, and is president of Lewisham Trades Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paddington South Constituency – Biography of Myer

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paddington South Constituency – Biography of Myer

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paddington South

    CANDIDATE : Myer

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. Myer, a barrister specializing in commercial law, was born in 1907, and was educated at the Grocers’ Company School, London School of Economics, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He rowed for his college, and?his crew won its oars in the Lent races of 1927. During the war he was a squadron leader in the R.A.F.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southwark Constituency – Biography of Greenwood

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southwark Constituency – Biography of Greenwood

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southwark

    CANDIDATE : Greenwood

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Greenwood, born in 1902, began work as an assistant in a library, but took up advertising and is chairman and managing director of a Fleet Street advertising firm. He is connected with many local organizations, and is the founder of the Southwark Chamber of Commerce. He unsuccessfully contested South-east Southwark in 1945, and Central Southwark at a by-election in 1948.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Clapham Constituency – Biography of Lowndes

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Clapham Constituency – Biography of Lowndes

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Clapham

    CANDIDATE : Lowndes

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. L. Lowndes was born in New Zealand in 1911. He worked there as a schoolmaster and on irrigation and farm mechanization projects, and in 1936 became an insurance broker in London. He served in Egypt and Libya in 1940-41, and was captured by the Afrika Korps. He contested the constituency unsuccessfully in 1945. He is a partner in the family business.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woolwich West Constituency – Biography of Roberts

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woolwich West Constituency – Biography of Roberts

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Woolwich West

    CANDIDATE : Roberts

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. R. Roberts, aged 51, is chief inspector of the Pharmaceutical Society and a barrister. At Chislehurst he is secretary of the Liberal Association, and an active worker in the St. John Ambulance and Scout movements.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barking Constituency – Biography of Willcock

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barking Constituency – Biography of Willcock

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barking

    CANDIDATE : Willcock

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. H. Willcock was 54 on the eve of the election, and is general manager of a firm of cleaners. Before he left his native Yorkshire to come south he was for 20 years hon. secretary of the Horsforth Liberal Association. He is president of the Essex County Liberal Federation, and a member of the Home Counties Liberal Executive. He unsuccessfully contested Barking in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Beckenham Constituency – Biography of Bain

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Beckenham Constituency – Biography of Bain

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Beckenham

    CANDIDATE : Bain

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. A. Bain, a Scotsman, was in the 1945 election defeated by Mr. H. Macmillan in the Bromley division, which then included Becken-ham. He has served on the National Executive of the Society of Electro and Stereotypers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Erdington Constituency – Biography of Silverman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Erdington Constituency – Biography of Silverman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Erdington

    CANDIDATE : Silverman

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Julius Silverman, wno gained the seat from Air Cdr. Wright in 1945, was born in 1905, and nad an elementary and secondary education, rirst employed as a warehouseman, he later ltlor the Bar and was at Gray’s Inn in 1931. He practises in ngham. For 11 years until 1945 he was a rnem-Oer of the city council.

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