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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Crewe Constituency – Biography of Allen

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Crewe Constituency – Biography of Allen

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Crewe

    CANDIDATE : Allen

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. Schofield Allen, K.C., who won Crewe in the 1945 election, is Recorder of Blackburn. Educated at Liverpool University, he was called to the Bar in 1923, practising on the Northern Circuit, and took silk in 1945. He is a member of the Manx Bar and has a commercial and insurance practice. He served in the 1914-18 war, first in the ranks and then with a commission in the R.F.A.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stalybridge and Hyde Constituency – Biography of Burden

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stalybridge and Hyde Constituency – Biography of Burden

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stalybridge and Hyde

    CANDIDATE : Burden

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. F. Burden, a solicitor, in partnership at Hyde and living at Romiley, is 33 and was born at Beverley (Yorks). He studied history and law at Cambridge. He served in the war as a rating in the TNavy and took part in Mediterranean engagements. He has been president of Hyde Liberal Association since 1946.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Ives Constituency – Biography of Allison

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Ives Constituency – Biography of Allison

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : St Ives

    CANDIDATE : Allison

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. E. F. Allison, born in 1916, won a scholarship from Manchester Grammar School to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he took honours in mathematics and a diploma in economics. He was president of the University Liberal Club and of the Union of University Liberal Societies. He is a master at Dulwich College. He commanded a battery in the 5th and 8th Armies in the war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bolsover Constituency – Biography of Cordeaux

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bolsover Constituency – Biography of Cordeaux

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bolsover

    CANDIDATE : Cordeaux

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. J. K. Cordeaux, aged 47, a member of a well-known Conservative family in Lincolnshire, entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman in 1919, but later transferred to the Royal Marines. From 1937 he was employed exclusively on Intelligence work and saw service in the Balkans, the Middle East and other countries, and subsequently was seconded to the Foreign Office. He was made a C.B.E. and holds several foreign decorations.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Honiton Constituency – Biography of Sargeant

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Honiton Constituency – Biography of Sargeant

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Honiton

    CANDIDATE : Sargeant

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. R. Sargeant was born in 1895 and is an agriculturist and horticulturist. He is engaged in the marketing of fruit and vegetables. Joining the Labour Party in 1935, he is a member of the West Somerset Co-operative Society. During the 1914-18 war he served in the Army and was wounded three times.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Totnes Constituency – Biography of Desch

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Totnes Constituency – Biography of Desch

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Totnes

    CANDIDATE : Desch

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Dr. H. Desch trained as a farm and forestry pupil and won the Beadel prize in agriculture of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He is a B.A., a B.Sc, and a D.Phil, of Oxford University, and was elected a Fellow of the Surveyors’ Institution in 1938. He has served in forestry in Nigeria and in Malaya, and is now in private practice as a timber consultant, and as a chartered surveyor on conversion schemes to ease the housing shortage. He served in the Federated Malay States Volunteers from 1933 to 1946 and was a prisoner of war of the Japanese from 1942 to 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chester-le-Street Constituency – Biography of Millican

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chester-le-Street Constituency – Biography of Millican

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chester-le-Street

    CANDIDATE : Millican

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. J. M. Millican is 32, and head of a Newcastle firm of glass and paint manufacturers. Educated at Loretto School, Edinburgh, he entered the family business, and is chairman of the North-Eastern Glass Manufacturers’ Association. During the war he served in the Royal Artillery and rose to the rank of major. He is a leading Rugby player, captained the Northern team, and is secretary.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sedgefield Constituency – Biography of Walford

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sedgefield Constituency – Biography of Walford

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sedgefield

    CANDIDATE : Walford

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. J. E. S. Walford, a Regular officer for 29 years until 1947, serving first with The Worcestershire Regiment and then with the Royal Corps of Signals, was educated at Malvern and Sandhurst. He is a well-known cricketer, having played for Worcestershire, the Army, the M.C.C., and All Egypt. His wife was Conservative candidate at Darlington He was born in 1899.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harwich Constituency – Biography of Janis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harwich Constituency – Biography of Janis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Harwich

    CANDIDATE : Janis

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. M. Janis was taken prisoner of war at Singapore and held by the Japanese for three and a half years, working on the Siam railway and being later transferred to Japan, where he became a liaison officer and interpreter. Now aged 37 and a leather goods merchant, he began life as a shop assistant.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gloucestershire South Constituency – Biography of Crosland

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gloucestershire South Constituency – Biography of Crosland

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gloucestershire South

    CANDIDATE : Crosland

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. A. R. Crosland (30) is a lecturer on economics at Oxford University. A member of Oxford University Labour Party, he is on the national executive of the Fabian Society and was president of the Oxford Union in 1946. During the war he served with the Airborne Division in North Africa and Austria.

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