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 : Ilkeston

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. F. R. Evans, born in 1920, worked with a firm of flour millers in Swansea before taking a commission in The Welch Regiment during the war. He was seconded for flying duties with the R.A.F. and served in Germany with an Army Cooperation squadron. He is a branch manager of a motor finance company.

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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 : Devon North

CANDIDATE : Baker

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. W. A. Baker is a schoolmaster. :Since he left the Army in 1947, after 23 years’ seryice, he has been active in trade union and political circles in Hampshire, particularly in the National Union of Teachers and the Portsmouth Labour Party. He has also done a good deal of social work in the district.

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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 : Dorset North

CANDIDATE : Griffith

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Griffith, aged 35, is a solicitor practising in Weymouth, and before going into practice on his own he was employed as assistant solicitor by the Dorset County Council. He studied at the University of Wales and has been a member of Weymouth Town Council for several years. He has held a number of local government appointments in England and Wales.

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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 : Consett

CANDIDATE : Dees

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Dees, aged 34, went to Manchester grammar schools and Manchester University, where he gained an honours degree in history. He has been a tutor for King’s College extramural department and lectured in Germany for the Foreign Office.

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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 : Isle of Ely

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. G. Jones, a 27-year-old Welshman, is reading for his final law examination at Cambridge and the Middle Temple. He served as a wireless operator-air gunner in the war and was president of Cambridge University Liberal Club in 1949.

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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 : Maldon

CANDIDATE : Moody

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Moody, director of an engineering company, was born in 1911 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He served with the Cold-stream Guards during the war, being for some time personal staff officer to the King of Greece and later w?rking with a Commando unit in Sicily and Italy. He has studied farming at the Royal Agricultural College and is a member of Essex County Council.

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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 : Stroud and Thornbury

CANDIDATE : Perkins

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. R. D. Perkins sat for the old Stroud division from 1931 until his defeat in 1945. He was first Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation during the war, and before that he served in the R.A.F. He was educated at Cambridge. He is chairman of Southern Newspapers, Limited. He founded the British Air Line Pilots’ Association and is chairman of the county Air Training Corps 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 : Petersfield

CANDIDATE : Dickson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. H. H. L. Dickson is a sailor turned farmer. First going to sea from Osborne and Dartmouth in 1920, he qualified in, naval gunnery and retired in 1946 as gunnery commander, H.M.S. Excellent. Between the wars he took up farming, but was recalled to the Navy at the outbreak of war. He is now farming at Fareham, and is honorary secretary of Hants Liberal Organization.

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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 : Hertford

CANDIDATE : Scutts

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Scutts, an optician living at Bishop’s Stortford, was born in 1914. He has taken an active part in local social and political work, and has been chairman of Bishop’s Stortford Council, and of the Hertfordshire 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 : Ashford

CANDIDATE : Shirley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Shirley, born in 1909 and educated at King’s College, London, served in the Navy as a schoolmaster, and on his release took up farming, in which his wife’s family have been engaged in Kent for 40 years. He combines fruit and dairy farming.

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