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 : Bedfordshire South

CANDIDATE : Fearnley-Whittingstall

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. A. Fearnley-Whittingstall, K.C., is Recorder of Grantham and deputy chairman of Bedfordshire quarter sessions. When only 26 he contested Seaham against Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in the 1929 election. He£corn-manded the 18th Indian L.A.A. Regiment in the last war and was mentioned in dispatches.

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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 : Aylesbury

CANDIDATE : Harman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. S. Harman farms 440 acres in the division. He is 37, and is 6ft. 6in. tall. He read agriculture at Cambridge, and is a pioneer in the use of the two-shift system of milking. He is a member of the county A.E.C., chairman of the British Socialist Agricultural Society, and a past chairman of Chesham N.F.U. and of Aylesbury Labour Party.

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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 : Cheadle

CANDIDATE : Hatton-Jones

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. G. Hatton-Jones is 53 years of age and lives at Mellor, of which he is a native. A Baptist minister, for many years he served in London, where he did much social work in the slums of the East End. He is the minister of Wycliffe Baptist Church, Disley. Before he entered the ministry he was a textile representative. He served in the Army 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 : Runcorn

CANDIDATE : Vosper

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. F. Vosper was born at Heswall, Cheshire in 1916, and was edu-caled at Marlborough and Pembroke College, Cambridge, of which he is a B.A., taking his degree in natural science and political economy. He is with a firm of Liverpool exporters. He served in the Army during the late war and was second in command of the 5th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment. He was demobilized with the rank of major. In 1946 he was agent to the Knutsford Division Conservative Association.

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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 : Cornwall North

CANDIDATE : Roper

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Harold Roper is a native of Exeter and_ was awarded his rowing blue when he was at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He served for over 30 years on the administrative staff of an oil company in Burma and in India, where he was general manager. He served for some years in the Upper and Lower Houses of the Burma Legislature. During the first world war he served in France and Italy and was awarded the M.C. ; and in the second war he was responsible for maintaining oil supplies to the forces in Burma and for the demolition of oilfields and refineries during the retreat, and although a civilian was mentioned in dispatches. He was knighted 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 : Workington

CANDIDATE : Sibley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. C. G. Sibley is a B.A. of London University and is on the staff of Cockermouth Grammar School. Fie was born in 1947, in Northamptonshire, educated at Christ’s Hospital, and during the war was a captain in the R.A.S.C.

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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 : Derbyshire South East

CANDIDATE : James

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. James, born in 1911, after studying at the University of Wales, took his first job as organizer for the Council of Social Service set up to alleviate distress among the unemployed in South Wales. Later he became a schoolmaster, and is now a director of a prepared food business.

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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 : Lambert

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Lambert is the elder son of Viscount Lambert and followed his father as member for the old South Molton division, which the latter represented, with a four-year break, from 1891 to 1945. Aged 39 and educated at Harrow and New College, Oxford, he served through the war and became a lieutenant – colonel and a War Office liaison officer, visiting the Mediterranean, India, and South-East Asia Commands. He specializes in agriculture.

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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 : Dalton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Hugh Dalton has been M.P. for the division since 1935, and also in 1929-31, and previously sat for Peckham. In the second Labour Government he was Under – Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and in Mr. Churchill’s wartime Government he was Minister for Economic Warfare and later President of the Board of Trade. In 1945 he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer, from which he resigned in November, 1947. After a short period as a back bencher he returned to the Government as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

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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 : Fernyhough

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Fernyhough was for 12 years a full-time official of the Union of Shop Assistants, Distributive and Allied Workers. He is 39, was born in a Staffordshire mining village, and first worked in the local colliery. He has since been closely associated with the Co-operative movement in Durham. In May, 1947, he was elected to Parliament for Jarrow, succeeding the late Miss Ellen Wilkinson.

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