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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Broxtowe Constituency – Biography of Cocks

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Broxtowe Constituency – Biography of Cocks

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Broxtowe

    CANDIDATE : Cocks

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Seymour Cocks has held Broxtowe since 1929 and is a former chairman of the Foreign Affairs Group of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Born in 1882 and educated at Plymouth College, he is an author and journalist who joined the Labour Party in 1917. A member of the National Council for the Prevention of War, he has served on Parliamentary delegations to Greece, Italy, and the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Banbury Constituency – Biography of Fenton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Banbury Constituency – Biography of Fenton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Banbury

    CANDIDATE : Fenton

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. R. Fenton, a senior English master, is 45, and spent much of his early life in South Wales during the depression. Educated at Caerleon College, Newport, he became a teacher, and has held various offices in the Labour Party, including the presidency of the Rickmansworth branch.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bridgwater Constituency – Biography of King-Hall

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bridgwater Constituency – Biography of King-Hall

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bridgwater

    CANDIDATE : King-Hall

    PARTY : Ind.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Cmdr. S. King-Hall, author, playwright, and broadcaster, was first returned for Orms-kirk in 1939 as a National Labour member. In 1945, standing as an Independent, he lost the seat to Mr. H. Wilson. Born in 1893, a son of Admiral Sir G. King-Hall, he served in the 1914-18 war with Admiral Beatty’s Battle Cruiser Squadron, and took part in the Battle of Jutland. Later he was appointed to the Naval Staff. He retired in [929, and took charge of the research department of the Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs. In the late war he worked with the Ministry of Aircraft Production and in the fuel economy campaign. He founded the Hansard Society.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brierley Hill Constituency – Biography of Simmons

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brierley Hill Constituency – Biography of Simmons

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brierley Hill

    CANDIDATE : Simmons

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. J. Simmons was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions in 1949, and before that was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. He was elected to Parliament in 1945 for the West Birmingham division, and in the 1929-31 Parliament represented Erdington. From 1921 to 1945 he served on the Birmingham City Council. He fought in the 1914-18 war, and is a political lecturer, organizer, and journalist.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bury St Edmunds Constituency – Biography of Sparham

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bury St Edmunds Constituency – Biography of Sparham

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bury St Edmunds

    CANDIDATE : Sparham

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. W. Sparham, a Lowestoft master printer, is 36, and was for four years a member of the town council. He founded the Lowestoft Young Liberals in 1934, is a member of the Party executive and a vice-president of the National League of Young Liberals.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chertsey Constituency – Biography of Owen

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chertsey Constituency – Biography of Owen

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chertsey

    CANDIDATE : Owen

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Owen was born at Addlestone in 1916 and is a depot inspector of the London Transport Executive. He joined the Liberal Party in 1946 and was chairman of Walton and Weybridge Liberal Association and of the Esher Division Liberal Executive Committee. He served in the Royal Artillery in India and Burma during the war and was with the counter intelligence section of the Control Commission in Germany in 1945 and 1946.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Guildford Constituency – Biography of Nugent

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Guildford Constituency – Biography of Nugent

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Guildford

    CANDIDATE : Nugent

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. R. H. Nugent, a poultry farmer, was born in 1907 and began life as a soldier in the Royal Artillery after attending the Royal Military Academy. He took up farming at Churt in 1928, moving to Dunsfold in 1935. Since 1942 he has been a member of the Surrey County Council, and is one of the four members of the Agricultural Improvements Council of Great Britain, an advisory body to the Ministry of Agriculture. He was chairman of the Guildford Division Conservative Association, 1945-47, and is a member of the Party’s S.E. Area Provincial Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewes Constituency – Biography of Briggs

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewes Constituency – Biography of Briggs

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewes

    CANDIDATE : Briggs

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. W. Briggs is 49 and a Londoner by birth. For some years a member of Brighton Town Council he was chairman of Brighton and Hove Labour Party, 1946-48, and is now vice-chairman. He is a member of Brighton and Lewes Hospital Management Committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rugby Constituency – Biography of Brown

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rugby Constituency – Biography of Brown

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rugby

    CANDIDATE : Brown

    PARTY : Ind.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. J. Brown sat as Labour M.P. for West Wolverhampton in the 1929-31 Parliament, but afterwards left the Labour Party and was twice unsuccessful before he won Rugby at a by-election in 1942 as an?Independent candidate. Born in 1909, he entered the Civil Service. From 1919 to 1942 he was general secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association, and since 1942 has been its Parliamentary general secretary. He is a broadcaster and writer on current affairs.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chippenham Constituency – Biography of Eccles

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chippenham Constituency – Biography of Eccles

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chippenham

    CANDIDATE : Eccles

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. David Eccles became M.P. for Chippenham in 1943 at a by-election, and has since been one of the more prominent Opposition back – bench speakers. Previously associated with the Central Mining Corporation in London and Johannesburg, he took over the Spain and Portugal departments of the Ministry of Economic Warfare on the outbreak of war. Later he negotiated a trade agreement in Madrid and became economic adviser to the British Ambassadors in Madrid and Lisbon before being transferred to the Ministry of Production. Born in 1904, he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford.

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