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 : 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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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 : 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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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 : Chester-le-Street

CANDIDATE : Bartley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Bartley went to an elementary school, and at 21 to the Catholic Workers’ College, Oxford, where he gained diplomas in economics and political science. For 10 years he was secretary of the Washington Miners’ lodge, and he served on Washington U.D.C. and Durham Caunty Council until appointed conciliation officer for the Durham division of the National Coal Board. From 1942 to 1946 he was assistant labour director for the Ministry of Fuel and Power.

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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 : Sedgefield

CANDIDATE : Slater

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Slater, a miner, aged 46, recently received the B.E.M. for his public work and services to trade unionism. A member of Durham County Council, on which he is vice-chairman of the Highways and Bridges Committee, and formerly of Sedgefield R.D.C., he is treasurer and delegate of Mainsforth Miners’ Lodge, and has been a trade union official for 20 years.

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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 : Harwich

CANDIDATE : Holmes

PARTY : Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir J. Stanley Holmes, aged 70, first sat in Parliament for East Derbyshire, but from 1935 represented the Harwich division. He sponsored the private members’ Bills which eventually became the Inheritance (Family Provision) Act, 1938, and the Coast Protection Act, 1939. A chartered accountant, he is the chairman of a number of companies, and is also vice-president of the Building Societies’ Association.

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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 : Cirencester and Tewkesbury

CANDIDATE : Philipps

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Philipps is the eldest son of Baron Milford, and was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He is farming at Coles-bourne, near Cheltenham. He is chairman of the local branch of the National Union of Agricultural Workers, and a member of the National Farmers’ Union. He is a former member of the International Brigade and drove an ambulance in Spain during the civil war, during which he was wounded.

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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 : New Forest

CANDIDATE : White

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. W. White is a teacher, and is 40. A former electrician and shop steward in the Amalgamated Engineering Union, he has been secretary of New Forest Labour Party. Later he took a special qualifying course as a teacher.

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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 : Hemel Hempstead

CANDIDATE : Davidson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Viscountess Davidson was elected in 1937, succeeding her husband when he was raised tte the peerage. She is the fourth generation of her family to sit in the Commons, her father, grandfather, and greatgrandfather all having been M.P.s. After the 1945 election she was for a time the only woman Conservative member.

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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 : MacDonald

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. R. MacDonald is the son of a Conservative ex-mayor of Louth (Lines), where he was born in 1912. Leaving school at 16, he was apprenticed in his father’s engineering business, then worked for three years as a constructional engineer, and began dairy farming in 1936. He owns 100 acres, which he farms intensively and markets his own produce as well as running a butcher’s business. The first Labour member of the Louth Borough Council, he was last year elected to the Lindsey 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 : Faversham

CANDIDATE : Brooks

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. Brooks, aged 39, is a London solicitor and director of a publishing company. Serving with the R.A.S.C. during the war, he was captured by the Japanese at Singapore in 1942 and was a prisoner of war for four years. He is vice-chairman of Hornsey Conservative Association and was chairman of the Hornsey local government committee which in 1947 won all 12 seats in a local election.

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