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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bethnal Green Constituency – Biography of Holman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bethnal Green Constituency – Biography of Holman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bethnal Green

    CANDIDATE : Holman

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. Holman was elected for S.W. Bethnal Green in 1945. Born in 1891 and educated at Mill Hill and the London School of Economics, he has been a member of Middlesex County Council and Teddington TJ.D.C. He was sometime lecturer for the Workers’ Educationa Association. He was a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party groups on finance and industry.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cities of London and Westminster Constituency – Biography of Gorsky

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cities of London and Westminster Constituency – Biography of Gorsky

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cities of London and Westminster

    CANDIDATE : Gorsky

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Dr. J. A. Gorsky, educated at King’s College, and a gold medallist of Westminster Hospital, has practised for 30 years in Westminster. He is also a barrister, deputy coroner for East and West Middlesex, divisional police surgeon of the London ” A ” division, and on the central council of the British Medical Association. His wife contested Swindon as a Liberal.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hackney South Constituency – Biography of Butler

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hackney South Constituency – Biography of Butler

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hackney South

    CANDIDATE : Butler

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. W. Butler: was elected for South Hackney in 1945. He is a former mayor of the borough, and has been a member of the council since 1928 ; he is chairman of the housing committee, and has also been leader of the council. Aged 51, he is a company director, and vice-president of the Association of Municipal Corporations.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Holborn and St Pancras South Constituency – Biography of Chapman-Walker

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Holborn and St Pancras South Constituency – Biography of Chapman-Walker

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Holborn and St Pancras South

    CANDIDATE : Chapman-Walker

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. J. F. Chapman-Walker was born in 1907, educated at Marlborough and the Sor-bonne, and was admitted a solicitor in 1930. He practises in London, and farms 200 acres at Ware in Hertfordshire. Mr. Chapman-Walker has travelled extensively in India, Australia, and the Far East. He served in the war in 1 he Hertfordshire Regiment, commanding an ^nglo-Australian force in the South-West Pacific.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kensington South Constituency – Biography of Spens

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kensington South Constituency – Biography of Spens

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kensington South

    CANDIDATE : Spens

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Patrick Spens, K.C., born in 1885, was M.P. for Ashford from 1,933 to 1943. He took silk in 1925 and was Master of the Bench, Inner Temple, 1934. He was Chief Justice of India from 1943 to 1947, and in 1947-48 was chairman ot the arbitration tribunal to settle partition disputes between India and Pakistan. He is a director pi assurance and banking companies. He was knighted in 1943 and created K.B.E. in 1948.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham South Constituency – Biography of Morrison

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham South Constituency – Biography of Morrison

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewisham South

    CANDIDATE : Morrison

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons, was born in 1888 and received his education at Stockwell Road Board School and Lingham Street Church of England School. He began work as an errand boy and shop assistant, and first entered public life as Mayor of Hackney in 1920. He was elected to the L.C.C. in 1922, and in the next year became M.P. for South Hackney. For six years from 1934 he was Leader of the L.C.C. In the Labour Government of 1931 he became Minister of Transport; and in the War Coalition Government he first served as Minister of Supply and later as Home Secretary. In the 1945 election he successfully contested East Lewisham, and after the revision of the constituency chose to contest the new South division.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poplar Constituency – Biography of Lonsdale

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poplar Constituency – Biography of Lonsdale

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Poplar

    CANDIDATE : Lonsdale

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Major R. T. H. Lonsdale is an Irishman, born in 1913 and educated at Eastbourne College and Sandhurst. In 1938-39 he was engaged on Waziristan operations in India and gained the M.C. for rescuing four wounded comrades. In the last war he was in the Parachute Brigade. He won the D.S.O. in Sicily, and he won a bar to the medal at Arnhem, where he led the ” Lonsdale Force,” and was twice wounded. He was heavyweight champion of The Royal Leicester Regiment.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southwark Constituency – Biography of Isaacs

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southwark Constituency – Biography of Isaacs

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southwark

    CANDIDATE : Isaacs

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. A. Isaacs, first entered Parliament in 1923, as member for Gravesend, represented North Southwark from 1929 to 1931, and was returned as its member at a by-election in 1939. He was Minister of Labour and National Service throughout the late Parliament. Born 66 years ago in Finsbury, of working-class parents, he went into the printing trade. Early interested in trade unionism he became general secretary of the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants at the age of 25. He has since been president of the Printing and Kindred Trades’ Federation, mayor of Southwark, and chairman of the Trades Union Congress.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Clapham Constituency – Biography of Draper

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Clapham Constituency – Biography of Draper

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Clapham

    CANDIDATE : Draper

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. G. M. Draper, born in 1919, joined the Labour Party League of Youth at 15, and the Young Communist League at 16. She is now a full-time political worker at Communist headquarters.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Accrington Constituency – Biography of Procter

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Accrington Constituency – Biography of Procter

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Accrington

    CANDIDATE : Procter

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. H. A. Procter sat for Accrington from 1931 to 1945. Born in Liverpool in 1883 he served an apprenticeship to engineering, and afterwards worked his passage to America, where he pursued his studies. Subsequently he attended Melbourne and Edinburgh Universities, studying philosophy, political science, and law, and was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1931. He has patented many inventions connected with the hydro-genation of coal. During the 1914-18 war Maj. Procter served in Europe with the Australian forces.

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