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 : Skipton

CANDIDATE : Drayson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. B. Drayson has represented the Skipton division since 1945. He was born in 1913 and became a member of the London Stock Exchange in 1935. He is a director of two textile firms and a member of the Royal Agricultural Society. He served in the Army during the war, was taken prisoner in the Western Desert, and escaped by walking 500 miles across German-occupied country.

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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 : Cardiff West

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. G. Thomas was born in 1909 and has been a schoolmaster. For five years he was a sergeant in the police force. He is a member of the executive committee of the National Union of Teachers, and of the National Association of Labour Teachers. He was elected for Cardiff Central 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 : Swansea East

CANDIDATE : Lynam

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. F. Lynam, an ex-service man, is a traveller in the metal refining industry. Born in 1907, he has lived for 37 years in Swansea and worked enthusiastically for the Conserya-tive cause, holding many offices in the Junior Imperial League before the war. For many years he was honorary secretary of the local 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 : Cardiganshire

CANDIDATE : Bowen

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. R. Bowen, who is a barrister, was educated at Cardigan County School, University College, Aberystwyth, St. John’s College, Cambridge, Brussels, and the Inns of Court. In 1945 he was returned to Parliament for Cardigan, and is an ex-president of the Liberal Party as well as being a member of the Liberal Party council. He has served on the Lord Chancellor’s Committee on Leasehold Reform.

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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 : Flintshire East

CANDIDATE : Currie

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. B. H. Currie, born in Northern Ireland in 1905 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, is a barrister practising on the Northern Circuit. In the war he was on the staff of Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, in Fighter Command, and served later in the legal branch of the Air Force. He has given many years’ service to local government in the Wirral peninsula.

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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 : Neath

CANDIDATE : Hope

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. C. Hope, born in 1909, won a scholarship to Swansea Grammar School and entered a ship repairing firm as an office boy. He is now storekeeper for the firm, and secretary of the workers’ welfare club. He is also secretary of Mumbles Conservative Association and vice-chairman of Swansea West 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 : Bedwellty

CANDIDATE : Finch

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. J. Finch, who is 51, is compensation secretary of the South Wales area of the National Union of Mine-workers, in whose interests he has worked for 30 years. He was a member of the 1943 advisory committee on rehabilitation (pneumo-coniosis) of coal miners in South Wales. Regarded as an expert on miners’ occupational diseases, he is a co-opted member of the social insurance committee of the T.U.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 : Aberdeen North

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. G. Wilson, unsuccessful in the Hillhead division of Glasgow in the 1945 election, has been a member of the executive of the Liberal Party for some years. An Edinburgh advocate, he is strongly in favour of reform of electoral procedure by the use of proportional representation.

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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 Central

CANDIDATE : Gilzean

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Gilzean, a retired printer, aged 71, won the seat in 1945. He served on Edinburgh Town Council for 21 years as a leading member of the Labour Party, and gave much time to housing and slum clearance and is a deputy lieutenant of the city. Wounded in the 1914-18 war, he undertook duties on the local war pensions 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 : Edinburgh Pentlands

CANDIDATE : Hope

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lord John Hope, member for the old North Midlothian and Peebles division, is 35 and younger twin son of the Marquess of Linlith-gow. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he served in the war at Narvik, Salerno, and Cassino, and was on the planning staff for the Anzio landing. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Scots Guards.

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