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 : Breconshire and Radnorshire

CANDIDATE : Gibson-Watt

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. J. D. Gibson-Watt, is 34 and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He is farming in Radnorshire and is a member of the Welsh Land Settlement Society and the Radnorshire County Council. He served with the Welsh Guards in North Africa in the war, and won the Military Cross and two bars. He finished the war as instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He is fifth in descent from James Watt, inventor of the steam engine.

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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 : Llanelli

CANDIDATE : Owen

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. P. Owen, who unsuccessfully contested East Surrey in 1945, is an accountant and director of a textile company in the county and a member of the committee of the Textile Institute. Born in North Wales in 1920, he served in the Army throughout 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 : Aberavon

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. M. Thomas, 31, is secretary to a large industrial concern in Cardiff. A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, he took first place in South Wales in both his intermediate and final examinations. He is reading for the Bar at Gray’s Inn.

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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 : Pontypridd

CANDIDATE : Pearson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Pearson, a bachelor, born in 1897, was for 25 years a chair-maker at Pontypridd. For five years he was secretary of the local trades council and Labour Party and for 12 years was a member of the urban district council, and chairman in 1937. He sat on the county council for 17 years until 1945, and became an M.P. in 1938. He was a Government whip throughout the last Parliament, and has been Comptroller of the Household and Treasurer of the Household. He is a member of the county agricultural wages board.

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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 : Pontypool

CANDIDATE : Russell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Russell was born in Glasgow. He has lived in South Wales since 1937 and is employed as a works accountant. Hs has been active in voluntary work in the lower eastern valley of Monmouthshire since 1941.

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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 : Coatbridge and Airdrie

CANDIDATE : O’Callaghan

PARTY : Irish Anti-Partition

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. P. O’Callaghan is a Roman Catholic school teacher. He says that he is Labour at heart, and is not opposed to Labour principles, but that his candidature was a protest against Labour passing the Ireland Act.

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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 : Edinburgh East

CANDIDATE : Hope

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Hope, a journalist, 34 years of age, was born in the constituency and worked on Scottish newspapers before going south. He is a former member of the B.B.C. news staff and subsequently a public relations officer in the Ministry of Supply. His wife, Charlotte Frances, producer and dramatist, was a founder of the repertory movement in Dundee.

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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 : Glasgow Bridgeton

CANDIDATE : Carmichael

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Carmichael was elected as I.L.P. member in 1946, succeeding the late Mr. James Maxton, but later followed other I.L.P. members into the Labour Party. Born in 1894, he became a steel erector and then an organizer for the I.L.P., with whom he was associated for 33 years. He has had nearly 20 years’ experience of local administration as a member of Glasgow Corporation.

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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 : Glasgow Govan

CANDIDATE : Browne

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. N. Browne contested the constituency in 1945. He has business connexions with Glasgow and has taken part in its municipal politics. He is a member of the general purposes committee of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, and served with the Royal Air Force during 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 : Glasgow Pollok

CANDIDATE : Anderson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Anderson is on the staff of an aeroengine factory in Glasgow and edits the firm’s welfare society magazine. Fifty-one years of age, he is secretary of the council of the Glasgow Southern Parliamentary Debating Association.

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