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 : Derbyshire West

CANDIDATE : Gratton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Gratton, a Derbyshi?e man born in 1889, worked first as a half-timer and was for 30 years a cotton doubler. He is an alderman of the Derbyshire County Council. For 11 years he was chairman of the West Derbyshire Labour Party, and an area organizer of the National Union of Municipal and General Workers.

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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 : Torrington

CANDIDATE : Chappell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. B. H. Chappell, an ex-regular soldier, was an Exeter policeman from 1926 to 1939, when he resigned on winning £13,000 in a football pool. He then became a licensee at North Tawton, and is now a private inquiry agent in Exeter. He is the holder of all-round sportsman trophies in the Coldstream Guards and Exeter Police. Ex-chairman of South Molton Labour Party. He is the father of 13 children.

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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 : Bishop Auckland

CANDIDATE : Malby

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. W. Malby was born in Norfolk in 1892, went to Bradford with his parents, and entered the textile trade and became an export manager, and now lives in the Bishop Auckland constituency and represents a firm of cattle manufacturers. He is a member of the Gladstone Liberal Club, Bradford, and was a founder member of the West Riding branch of the Institute of Export.

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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 : Jarrow

CANDIDATE : Chalkley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Chalkley was born in 1925 and was educated at Charterhouse School, the London School, Washington, and Harvard University. He is engaged in a mail-order business. He served with the army during the war, and was demobilized with the rank of captain.

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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 : Epping

CANDIDATE : Davies

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. N. B. Davies, born in 1920, was educated at Eton and in France and Germany, and then entered Sandhurst. During the war he served with the Guards in the Near East and Italy. He speaks seven foreign languages and is managing director of an Essex company.

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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 : Cirencester and Tewkesbury

CANDIDATE : Morrison

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. S. Morrison, K.C., was born in 1893 in Scotland. He served in the 1914-18 war, and has represented Cirencester and Tewkesbury since 1929. Before the war he held several junior posts, and in 1939 was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He was the first Minister of Food from 1939 to 1940, and subsequently became Minister ?f Town and Country Planning. He took silk in 1934.

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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 : Basingstoke

CANDIDATE : Donner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. W. Donner was member for West Islington, 1931-35, and since 1935 for Basingstoke. Son of the first Finnish Minister to Britain, he is 46, and was educated at Eastbourne College and Exeter College, Oxford, where he gained an honours degree in English literature. He has made a study of imperial development and administration.

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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 : Barnet

CANDIDATE : Maudling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Maudling is 32 and a barrister, who has served in the R.A.F. and in the Air Ministry as the Minister’s private secretary. He is head of the Conservative Party’s economic department, and has been personal adviser on these subjects to Mr. Churchill. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School and Merton College, Oxford.

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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 : Hertfordshire South West

CANDIDATE : Allaker

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Allaker is a London schoolmaster, aged 45, who had a grammar school and technical college education. He lives at Bushey, where he has been a member of the urban council and is chairman of the local Labour Party and of the Old People’s Welfare Committee and a member of the divisional education committee.

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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 : Dover

CANDIDATE : Owen

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Owen, aged 48, comes of a Welsh mining family, and is an employee of the National Coal Board. He has been tutor-organizer of the National Council of Labour Colleges, and educational secretary of the London Co-operative Society. For six years he was a member of Leicestershire County Council.

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