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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wood Green Constituency – Biography of Ellis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wood Green Constituency – Biography of Ellis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wood Green

    CANDIDATE : Ellis

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. P. J. Ellis, who is aged 35, is an engineer and company director. An organist and composer, he has been an amateur member of the B.B.C. chorus and the Westminster Abbey special choir. He is on the executive of the London Liberal Party, and unsuccessfully fought Dulwich in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedfordshire Mid Constituency – Biography of Martell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedfordshire Mid Constituency – Biography of Martell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bedfordshire Mid

    CANDIDATE : Martell

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. K. Martell was also a candidate at the 1945 election, gaining only 2,313 votes fewer than Mr. Lennox-Boyd. Aged 39, he was educated at Bedford School and is a solicitor and partner in a London firm. He is a member of the Home Counties executive and of the council of the Liberal Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wokingham Constituency – Biography of McQuade

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wokingham Constituency – Biography of McQuade

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wokingham

    CANDIDATE : McQuade

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. McQuade, an architect and surveyor, aged 47, was educated at Middlesbrough, where he was born, and St. Mary’s College, Hammersmith. He is a fellow of the Faculty of Architects and before the war was a member of the panel set up by the Federation of Residents’ and Tenants’ Associations to advise on matters concerning speculative building.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cambridgeshire Constituency – Biography of Howlett

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cambridgeshire Constituency – Biography of Howlett

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cambridgeshire

    CANDIDATE : Howlett

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. T. Howlett, born in 1893, has specialized in poultry farming for 30 years, and served many years as a parish councillor, rural district councillor, and county councillor. He is managing director and chairman of an egg packing station at Soham, and has been a member of the council of the Poultry Association of Great Britain since 1935.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Northwich Constituency – Biography of Mapp

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Northwich Constituency – Biography of Mapp

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Northwich

    CANDIDATE : Mapp

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Mapp, a railway clerk aged 47, is chairman of Altrincham and Sale Labour Party. A prominent member of the Railway Clerks’ Association, he is now chairman of the South Lancashire Divisional Council. He has served on Sale Borough Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Falmouth and Camborne Constituency – Biography of Agnew

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Falmouth and Camborne Constituency – Biography of Agnew

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Falmouth and Camborne

    CANDIDATE : Agnew

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Cmdr. P. G. Agnew (50) was educated at Repton and at the Royal Naval College, Keyham. He joined the Royal Navy in 1918 and retired in 1931, but rejoined in September, 1939, and served until October, 1944. He was elected M.P. for the former Camborne division in 1935, and retained the seat in the last Parliament when it was amalgamated with Falmouth. In May, 1945, he was appointed an assistant Government Whip, and in August, 1945, was appointed a Conservative Whip. He is member for Truro diocese in the House of Laity of the Church Assembly and a Church Commissioner for England.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Workington Constituency – Biography of Peart

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Workington Constituency – Biography of Peart

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Workington

    CANDIDATE : Peart

    PARTY : Lab

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. F. Peart is a schoolmaste? and qualified at Durham University in 1936. He was born in 1914 and served in the Army in the last war, rising to the rank of captain. He was elected for Working-ton in 1945 and has been Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Agriculture. He is a member of the national executive of the Playing Fields’ Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derbyshire South East Constituency – Biography of Champion

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derbyshire South East Constituency – Biography of Champion

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Derbyshire South East

    CANDIDATE : Champion

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. J. Champion was elected for the division in 1945. In 1949 he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Strachey, then Minister of Food. Born in 1897 he became a railway signalman and was for severalyearsamember of the executive of the N.U.R. ; and also served on Pontypridd council. He investigated labour relations in Norway for the Fabian Society, and in 1949 lectured for the British Infoimation Service in the United States.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tiverton Constituency – Biography of Duffy

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tiverton Constituency – Biography of Duffy

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tiverton

    CANDIDATE : Duffy

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. E. P. Duffy, aged 29, was born in a Yorkshire mining village and with the aid of scholarships won his way to the London School of Economics, where he took a B.Sc.(Econ.) degree with honours last year. He is engaged on research at London University. Gaining a commission in the Navy during the war he served with the Fleet Air Arm and was in command of the Naval School of Air Radar. His injuries in the war necessitated a long course of plastic surgery treatment.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset West Constituency – Biography of Kane

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset West Constituency – Biography of Kane

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorset West

    CANDIDATE : Kane

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. C. J. Kane is a dairy farmer and breeder of pedigree Guernseys, and in 1938-39 was president of the English Guernsey Cattle Society. In the first world war he served in France and Italy, and in the second in West Africa before he was invalided out in 1943. He served with the Control Commission in Germany.

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