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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westmorland Constituency – Biography of Acland

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westmorland Constituency – Biography of Acland

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Westmorland

    CANDIDATE : Acland

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. G. D. Acland comes of a well-known Liberal family. His brother is Sir Richard Acland, Labour member for Graves-end. Aged 51, he went to Grenoble University and Trinity College, Cambridge, and afterwards joined the family paper-making concern, of which he is a working director. His special interest is international affairs.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bromsgrove Constituency – Biography of Higgs

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bromsgrove Constituency – Biography of Higgs

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bromsgrove

    CANDIDATE : Higgs

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. M. C. Higgs, born in 1912, took an honours degree in law at Birmingham University, was admitted a solicitor in 1934, and represents the third generation in the family in legal practice. He was on the staff of the Judge-Advocate-General during the war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cleveland Constituency – Biography of Peake

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cleveland Constituency – Biography of Peake

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cleveland

    CANDIDATE : Peake

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Peake, who contested the Blaydon division in the last election against the Labour Chief Whip, is a brother of Mr. O. Peake, M.P. for North Leeds. Educated at Eton and Cambridge, he is a barrister. During the war he saw considerable service as an intelligence officer with the R.A.F. in the Middle East.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dearne Valley Constituency – Biography of Paling

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dearne Valley Constituency – Biography of Paling

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dearne Valley

    CANDIDATE : Paling

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Wilfred Paling, M.P. for the Wentworth division since 1933, had the largest maj-ority, 35,410, in the 1945 General Election. He had previously represented Don-caster. He was Labour deputy Chief Whip from 1935 to 1941, and successively Minister of Pensions and Postmaster-General. Born in 1883, he worked as a boy with his father at the coal face, married at 20, later studied mining at University College, Nottingham, and became a checkweighman.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ripon Constituency – Biography of Stoddart-Scott

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ripon Constituency – Biography of Stoddart-Scott

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ripon

    CANDIDATE : Stoddart-Scott

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Col. M. Stoddart-Scott is a doctor of medicine, and holds the degrees of M.D., Ch.B., and M.B. of Leeds University. In 1945 he entered Parliament as the member for Pudsey and Otley. He was president of the Students’ Representative Council, vice – president of Leeds University Union, and twice president of Leeds University Medical Society. He served in the Army in the war, and was Assistant Director of Medical Services. Before the war he was on the medical staff of Leeds General Infirmary.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdare Constituency – Biography of Samuel

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdare Constituency – Biography of Samuel

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aberdare

    CANDIDATE : Samuel

    PARTY : Welsh Nat.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. I. Samuel, 37, is the South Wales organizer of the Welsh Nationalist Party. He fought the 1946 by-election here and contested Neath in 1945. He is editor of two party publications, holds a London University diploma in public administration, and is a member of the B.B.C. Council for Wales and of Pontardawe District Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rhondda East Constituency – Biography of Mainwaring

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rhondda East Constituency – Biography of Mainwaring

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rhondda East

    CANDIDATE : Mainwaring

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. H. Mainwaring, who has held the seat since 1933, was born in 1885 at Swansea, and went to Rhondda in his early years to work in the mines. He studied at the Central Labour College, London, for two years, returned to the coal face, and went back to the college in 1919 as economics lecturer and vice-principal. In 1924 he became miners’ agent in Rhondda, which post he held until he became M.P.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Breconshire and Radnorshire Constituency – Biography of Paton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Breconshire and Radnorshire Constituency – Biography of Paton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Breconshire and Radnorshire

    CANDIDATE : Paton

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. M. R. Paton was nominated as an Independent Liberal, the local association having decided not to contest the seat, and subsequently his candidature was approved by Liberal headquarters. Born in Pontypool, he is the third son of a South Wales industrialist and was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford. He is a haulage contractor.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Llanelli Constituency – Biography of Morgan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Llanelli Constituency – Biography of Morgan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Llanelli

    CANDIDATE : Morgan

    PARTY : Welsh Nat.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    The Rev. D. E. Morgan, a Baptist minister, aged 30, graduated with honours in Welsh at the University of Wales and took his B.A. degree at the Honours School of Theology at Oxford. In 1945 he won the fine prose competition at the Rhos National Eisteddfod.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barry Constituency – Biography of Rees

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barry Constituency – Biography of Rees

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barry

    CANDIDATE : Rees

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. D. Rees was at one time a schoolteacher and was formerly a member of Barry Borough Council. She is an alderman of Glamorgan County Council and a member of the national advisory committee for National Insurance. She is also a member of the Joint Education Committee for Wales and of the Welsh Teaching Hospitals Board.

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