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 : Cannock

CANDIDATE : Lee

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss Jennie Lee was born in 1904 and is the daughter of a miner. She won scholarships to Edinburgh University, became a teacher, and later a journalist. She is joint editor of the Tribune, which before 1945 was edited by her husband, Mr. Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health. Miss Lee first sat in Parliament from 1929 to 1931 for North Lanark, and returned in 1945 for Cannock.

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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 : Lowestoft

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Edward Evans, who was born in Manchester in 1883, won the seat in 1945. A teacher, he was educated at Cheltenham and London University, and was head master of the East Anglian Schools for the Blind from 1928 to 1943, when he became deputy secretary of the National Institute for the Blind. He is the founder and chairman of the College of Teachers of the Blind and chairman of a Ministry of Health advisory committee on handicapped persons. His book, ” A Manual Alphabet for the Deaf Blind,” is a standard work. He has served on Yarmouth Town Council.

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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 : Surrey East

CANDIDATE : Astor

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Michael Astor entered Parliament in 1945, when he successfully held the old Eastern Division for the Conservative Party. He is the third son of Viscount Astor. He was born in 1916 and educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. He saw much fighting in Europe during the last war. Chairman of the Playing Fields Association grants committee, he is also a vice-president of the Anglo-Netherlands Sports 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 : Reigate

CANDIDATE : Batham

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. S. Batham was born in 1917, and in 1934 joined the staff of a firm at Gerrards Cross as an office boy. Twelve years later he became a director. During the war he served in the R.N.V.R. He is a member of the Liberal Party’s ” Ownership-for-all ” Committee, and a leading figure on the executive of the Home Counties Liberal Federation. He has travelled in Brazil, where he has family and business connexions.

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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 : Chichester

CANDIDATE : Gibson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. V. Gibson, a London journalist, is 40. A graduate of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he took an honours degree in political economy and was president of the Cambridge Union. During the war he served as a major in the Indian Army.

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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 : Stratford-on-Avon

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. G. M. Brown is aged 25. After a public school and university education he became a barrister and is a member of the Labour Lawyers’ Association. From 1943 to 1946 he served in the Navy in minesweepers. At Cambridge he was chairman of the University Labour Club, and in 1947-48 was on the executive of the National Association of Labour Students.

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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 : Devizes

CANDIDATE : Aston

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Aston, aged 43, worked for some time with the Great Western Railway, served as a gunner in the Royal Artillery, and was later commissioned and landed in Normandy soon after D Day. In 1946 he joined the Allied Control Commission in Germany and remained with them until October, 1949.

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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 : Beverley

CANDIDATE : Gray

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Gray, a farmer of Grantham, has three times previously contested the Rutland and Stamford division without success. He is aft advocate of monetary reform and has written on farming and economic problems.

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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 : Thirsk and Malton

CANDIDATE : Geffen

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Geffen was born in 1920, and is solicitor to the Durham Miners’ Association, joining the Labour Party when he was 15, Mr. Geffen is a former political education officer of Hampstead Labour Party, a member of the Haldane and Fabian Societies, and organizing secretary of the latter’s Durham branch. He has been a member of the London University branch of the Labour Party since 1945, and is a member of the National Union of Mineworkers (Durham area). He served with the Royal Artillery, 1940-45, and was later engaged in full-time educational work with the Army Educational Corps.

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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 : Hemsworth

CANDIDATE : Holmes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Horace Holmes was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Fuel and Power in the last Parliament. He started work at 13 as a miner and served for many years as an official in the miners’union. He was for 23 years a member of Royston R.D.C. and for 11 years sat on the West Riding County Council. He is 59, and won the D.C.M. in the war. He was first returned to Parliament unopposed at a by-election at Hemsworth in 1946. His majority this time was the largest in the election.

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