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 : Southampton Test

CANDIDATE : Fry

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Fry, son of C. B. Fry, the famous cricketer, went to the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and was in the Navy until 1920, when he retired to assist his father in charge of the Mercury Nautical School, Hamble. From 1934 to 1949 he held a number of appointments with the B.B.C., including assistant programme director, Midland Region, and research director of the B.B.C.’s New York office. He is aged 49.

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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 : South Shields

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. O. Smith, born in South Shields 46 years ago, started work early as a rivet catcher in the shipyards in 1917 after his father had been torpedoed at sea. He is an electric welder. He took an active part in the unemployed workers’ movement before 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 : Stoke-on-Trent South

CANDIDATE : Kemp

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. Kemp, a chemist in business for 40 years, has been on the city council for more than 27 years, 10 of them as an alderman, and he was lord mayor in 1944-45. He is also chairman of the North Staffs Liberal Federation.

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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 : Swindon

CANDIDATE : Gradwell

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Gradwell, who served an apprenticeship as a woodworker, and afterwards became a handicrafts teacher at Swindon, is 43. He is vice-president of Swindon National Union of Teachers, and has had considerable experience in the trade union movement. A member of the Communist Party for 12 years, he is on the West of England district 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 : Wakefield

CANDIDATE : Berwin

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. J. Berwin, who was born in 1926, was at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and is now at Leeds University where he is chairman of debates, Leeds University Union, and is on the Leeds University Union Committee. During the war he served with the Royal Navy. He is a member of the Liberal Party Council, and of the Yorkshire Area Liberal Federation Executive.

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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 : Warrington

CANDIDATE : Morgan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. H. B. Morgan, a specialist in industrial diseases, is Medical Adviser to the T.U.C. and several trade unions. He has practised in southeast London, and served on Greenwich and Pad-dington councils. He was M.P. for N.W. Camber-well, 1929-31, and was returned in 1940 for Rochdale, which he represented until this election. Born in 1885 he was educated in the West Indies 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 : Wembley South

CANDIDATE : Gill

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Gill, aged 28, is a toolmaker employed at Wembley and living at Hanwell. He is a member of the local A.E.U. committee and a shop steward.

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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 : Willesden East

CANDIDATE : Hammersley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. S. Hammersley, chairman of a Lancashire cotton-spinning firm, is 57, and was M.P. for Stockport, 1924-35. He did not seek re-election, for business reasons, but was returned for E. Willesden in the 1938 by-election, and defeated in 1945. He was wounded in Gallipoli in the 1914-18 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 : Woodford

CANDIDATE : Hills

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Hills (37) is a printer who for the past three years has been studying at Oxford University, and while there was vice-chairman of the Oxford City Labour Party, president of the Oxford Union Society, and chairman of the Oxford University Labour Party group. He was in the Army during the war, and attained 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 : Bedford

CANDIDATE : Skeffington-Lodge

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. C. Skeffington-Lodge, Bedfordshire’s first Labour member, is the son of a farmer and jointly owns with his sister a 2,000-acre farm in Yorkshire. A bachelor, aged 45, he was chairman of the divisional Labour Party at Pudsey and Otley. He took the lead in forming a group of the Socialist Christian League in the House of Commons.

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