Tag: 1950 General Election

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 : Hemel Hempstead

CANDIDATE : Moss

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Moss, born in 1913, is a secondary schoolmaster at Hertford. He has wide experience of adult education through the National Council of Labour Colleges, the W.E.A., and the Co-operative movement. He has been secretary and chairman of the Hertford Divisional Labour Party.

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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 : Huntingdonshire

CANDIDATE : Thompson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. G. F. Thompson, head of a firm of solicitors at Esher (Surrey), where he lives was born at Hounslow (Middlesex) in 1902 and educated at Hampton Grammar School. At 14, he started work as a clerk for a London legal firm, studied in his spare time, and qualified as a solicitor in 1931. During the war he served in the R.A.F. as a flight lieutenant in the Air Ministry Secret Branch. He was a member of Esher Urban Council from 1934 to 1946, is a liveryman of the Solicitors’ Company, and a freeman of the City of London.

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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 : Faversham

CANDIDATE : Graham

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss E. Graham, aged 23, is a former secretary of the National League of Young Liberals and has recently been working in the family business in Yorkshire.

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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 : Sevenoaks

CANDIDATE : Rodgers

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Rodgers, aged 43, has travelled widely in Europe, America, and Russia on business and is chairman of the British Market Research Bureau, Ltd. During the war he worked in the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Production, and went on a special mission to Portugal for the Foreign Office. He was educated at St. Peter’s, York and also in France and at Oxford, where he was a scholar in modern history, and later joined the staff of University College, Hull.

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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 : Farnworth

CANDIDATE : Lomax

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Lomax, born in 1875, started work as a half-timer at 10, became a technological expert in the pottery trade, and introduced a famous glaze. He claims the distinction of being the first to advocate the de-rating of industry in 1907.

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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 : Middleton and Prestwich

CANDIDATE : Hilditch

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. S. Hilditch, born in 1906, took an honours degree in history at Manchester University and became senior history lecturer at Lancaster emergency training college. He has been chairman of the Chorley division Labour Party, president of the Leyland Labour Party, and a member of the executive of the Lancaster Labour Party. He was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F. 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 : Westhoughton

CANDIDATE : Crowther

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss J. Crowther, aged 29, a domestic science teacher at Liverpool, is prominent in the Young Conservatives movement and, besides holding offices in local and regional organizations of the party, is on the Young Conservatives national executive and a member of the Central Council of the National Union of Conservative Associations. She is specially interested in foreign affairs, maternity and child welfare, and industrial conditions. She worked in a Rochdale cotton mill during a vacation.

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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 : Holland with Boston

CANDIDATE : Lee

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. W. Lee is a Kent fruit farmer and scientist, 38 years old, who was educated at Bromley County School and studied political economy in London. He has done a good deal of public work in the Dartford district, and he is a tax commissioner. A broadcaster on agricultural subjects, he is also a radio script writer.

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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 : Louth (Borough)

CANDIDATE : Osborne

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Osborne, born in 1898, is a Leicestershire industrialist and chairman of a number of companies interested in the textile industry and in the grocery trade. He is an official of the ancient guild of Frame Knit Workers. He was elected to Parliament in 1945. Educated at University College, Oxford, he served with the Royal Artillery in France, Italy and Egypt in the 1914-18 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 : Norfolk North

CANDIDATE : Reid

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. M. Reid held a commission in the Royal Flying Corps during the 1914-18 war and was twice wounded in France, where he gained the M.C. Going back to Cambridge after the war he became president of the Union. Later he took a business appointment in India and was for six years a member of the Madras Legislative Assembly. During the war he served with Indian regiments.

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