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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brigg Constituency – Biography of Mallalieu

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brigg Constituency – Biography of Mallalieu

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brigg

    CANDIDATE : Mallalieu

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. L. Mallalieu was Liberal M.P. for Colne Valley, a seat previously held by his father, from 1931 to 1935, and won Brigg in a by-election in 1948, having joined the Labour Party in 1945. Educated at Cheltenham and Oxford, he practised as a barrister in London and on the North-Eastern Circuit, but after a breakdown in health he left law for farming. He is aged 43, and is the brother of Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu, the member for East Huddersfield.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Uxbridge Constituency – Biography of Aylett

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Uxbridge Constituency – Biography of Aylett

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Uxbridge

    CANDIDATE : Aylett

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. E. Aylett, who contested t?e constituency in 1945, is an Essex man aged 34. He was educated at the Royal Albert School, Rom-ford, and read law at London University. He was admitted a solicitor at the age of 21, and is associated with a firm of Uxbridge solicitors.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Yarmouth Constituency – Biography of Kinghorn

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Yarmouth Constituency – Biography of Kinghorn

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Yarmouth

    CANDIDATE : Kinghorn

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Kinghorn had unsuccessfully contested Hexham in 1935 against Col. D. Clifton Brown (the present Speaker) before becoming M.P. for Yarmouth in 1945. Formerly a languages master and a lecturer on economics, he served as an intelligence officer with the R.A.F. in the war, later was attached to Gen. Eisenhower’s headquarters staff, and subsequently was a staff officer on the Control Commission in Germany. He was born in 1907, and educated at Basle, Lille, and Leeds University.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Berwick-upon-Tweed Constituency – Biography of Thorp

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Berwick-upon-Tweed Constituency – Biography of Thorp

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Berwick-upon-Tweed

    CANDIDATE : Thorp

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Brig. R. A. F. Thorp , defeated Lord (then Sir William) Beveridge in 1945. A regular soldier i with 27 years’ service, he was born in 1900 and j educated at Charterhouse and R.M.C., Quetta, being first commissioned in Skinner’s Horse in 1919. During the war I he was G.S.O.2, 3rd Division, France, 1939 ; D.A.Q.M.G. 1st Cavalry Division, Palestine, 1940; A.A.Q.M.G., 11th Division, Abyssinia, 1941 ; G.S.O.I, headquarters, East Africa, 1941 ; colonel in command, Northern Rhodesia, 1942 ; and brigadier commanding 31st Brigade, Abyssinian Frontier, 1943-45.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Mansfield Constituency – Biography of Milliard

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Mansfield Constituency – Biography of Milliard

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Mansfield

    CANDIDATE : Milliard

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. H. L. Milliard, born at Bangor in 1912, joined the Army in 1938 and was commissioned in the Royal Artillery a year later. An insurance inspector, he formerly played football for Lancashire amateur clubs. He is a member of Leicester City Council, and has been chairman of the political education committee of the Leicestershire Conservative Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ludlow Constituency – Biography of Williams

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ludlow Constituency – Biography of Williams

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ludlow

    CANDIDATE : Williams

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Williams is 51.?He became education welfare officer for Monmouth at the age of 20, and in 1943 was appointed welfare superintendent for the county. He has twice been chairman of Caerleon Urban District Council and is a member of the South Wales housing and town planning committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Taunton Constituency – Biography of Phillipson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Taunton Constituency – Biography of Phillipson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Taunton

    CANDIDATE : Phillipson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. R. Phillipson, born in 1890, was for 18 years a Tyneside engineer. Later he set up his own engineering business in London, worked under the Ministry of Supply during the war, and also became deputy chairman of a Bristol engineering company. He is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Administration, and has been on the council of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cannock Constituency – Biography of Hickling

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cannock Constituency – Biography of Hickling

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cannock

    CANDIDATE : Hickling

    PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. M. Hickling holds an honours degree in geography from Bristol University, and for six years before her marriage in 1936 taught in Manchester. During the war she was regional training officer for the W.V.S. in the south-west region. Since April, 1946, she has been a member of the Keynsham Urban Council, and since 1945 a Conservative Central Office staff speaker. She was born in 1910.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lowestoft Constituency – Biography of Whitefoord

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lowestoft Constituency – Biography of Whitefoord

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lowestoft

    CANDIDATE : Whitefoord

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj.-Gen. P. G. Whitefoord is 51 and the son of a Lincolnshire rector. Educated in Germany and at St. John’s School, Leather-head, he served as a Regular Army officer with The Lincolnshire Regiment and later the Royal Artillery from 1912 to 1945. He won the M.C. in the 1914-18 war. Between the two wars he held staff appointments in Britain and India, in 1939 he was a staff officer at G.H.Q. of the B.E.F., and took part in the Dunkirk evacuation. After commanding the 54th Divisional Artillery, he went to the planning staff at Shaef as a major-general in 1943. As Chief of Staff, Allied Land Forces, in the liberation of Norway, he received a Norwegian decoration, and retired from the Army in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Surrey East Constituency – Biography of Wills

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Surrey East Constituency – Biography of Wills

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Surrey East

    CANDIDATE : Wills

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. W. Wills is a 36-year-old housewife, born at Wylde Green, Warwickshire, and now lives at Woldingham. She trained for physiotherapy and orthopaedic nursing and followed her profession in Birmingham, Coventry, and Belfast. During the war Mrs. Wills was in charge of the Coventry Citizens’ Advice Bureau and later was welfare officer to the Hampshire Women’s Land Army.

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