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 : Hickling

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. M. Hickling holds an honours degree in geography from Bristol University, and for six years before her marriage in 1936 taught in Manchester. During the war she was regional training officer for the W.V.S. in the south-west region. Since April, 1946, she has been a member of the Keynsham Urban Council, and since 1945 a Conservative Central Office staff speaker. She was born in 1910.

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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 : Whitefoord

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj.-Gen. P. G. Whitefoord is 51 and the son of a Lincolnshire rector. Educated in Germany and at St. John’s School, Leather-head, he served as a Regular Army officer with The Lincolnshire Regiment and later the Royal Artillery from 1912 to 1945. He won the M.C. in the 1914-18 war. Between the two wars he held staff appointments in Britain and India, in 1939 he was a staff officer at G.H.Q. of the B.E.F., and took part in the Dunkirk evacuation. After commanding the 54th Divisional Artillery, he went to the planning staff at Shaef as a major-general in 1943. As Chief of Staff, Allied Land Forces, in the liberation of Norway, he received a Norwegian decoration, and retired from the Army 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 : Surrey East

CANDIDATE : Wills

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. W. Wills is a 36-year-old housewife, born at Wylde Green, Warwickshire, and now lives at Woldingham. She trained for physiotherapy and orthopaedic nursing and followed her profession in Birmingham, Coventry, and Belfast. During the war Mrs. Wills was in charge of the Coventry Citizens’ Advice Bureau and later was welfare officer to the Hampshire Women’s Land 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 : Woking

CANDIDATE : Watkinson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Watkinson, 40, was educated at King’s College, London. An engineer, he is director of a machine tool company. He was engaged for three years in technical journalism and publishing, and served for six years with the Royal Navy, rising to the rank of lieutenant-commander. He was recently appointed chairman of a committee set up to increase efficiency in the machine tool industry.

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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 : Joynson-Hicks

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. W. Joynson-Hicks, second son of the first Viscount Brentford, was born in 1902 and is senior partner in a firm of solicitors. Educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, he served from 1939 to 1945 with the Royal Navy and reached the rank of Lt.-C?dr. He was first elected to Parliament in 1942.

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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 : Seaborne

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. S. Seaborne, aged 52, is director of an engineering firm at Solihull. He served in France in the first world war, after which he studied engineering abroad. During the last war he was plant adviser to the Ministry of Works, and is a founder member and general secretary of the Institution of Incorporated Plant Engineers.

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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 : Salisbury

CANDIDATE : Case

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. A. J. Case, a smallholder, has been connected with the Labour and trade union movements for more than 30 years. Co-opted an alderman of the Wiltshire County Council, he is also a member of the Central Wages Board. Born in 1894, he was educated in a village elementary school.

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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 : Freemantle

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. S. Freemantle is a chartered secretary and accountant in Hull and Bridling-ton. Educated at Doncaster Grammar School, he served in the war in the Royal Armoured Corps and The Green Howards, rising to the rank of major and holding various staff appointments.

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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 : Aldam

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Aldam is 60, and was educated at Ta?caster Grammar School and Ruskin College, Oxford. He is a former lecturer in economics, and up to 1946 was a headquarters inspector of the L.N.E.R. A specialist on transport problems and trade union matters, he is one of the founders of the trade union movement among agricultural 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 : Hemsworth

CANDIDATE : Asquith

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss J. Asquith, aged 30, took an economics degree at Oxford, where she was secretary of the University Conservative Association. She served in the A.T.S. in the war and received a commission.

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