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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hexham Constituency – Biography of Brown

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hexham 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 : Hexham

    CANDIDATE : Brown

    PARTY : The Speaker

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Col. Douglas Clifton Brown, the Speaker of the House of Commons, is 70 years of age. Educated at Cheam, Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was commissioned in the King’s Dragoon Guards and served throughout the 1914-18 war, being Brigade Major of the 17th Mounted Brigade in 1916. In 1922 he joined the Northumberland Hussars, and succeeded to the command of the regiment in 1925. Entering Parliament for Hexham in 1918, he has represented that constituency since with a short break in 1923-24. He was Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker from 1938 to 1943, and Chairman of Ways and Means in 1943, when he was elected Speaker. He has stated that he will retire at the end of the present Parliament.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newark-on-Trent Constituency – Biography of Deer

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newark-on-Trent Constituency – Biography of Deer

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newark-on-Trent

    CANDIDATE : Deer

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Deer represented Lincoln in the last Parliament. He is 60, and became an area organizer of the Transport and General Workers’ Union in 1929. He has served on several trade union committees ; is an alderman of Lincoln City Council, and was mayor in 1933-34, and was appointed Sheriff of the city in 1943.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shrewsbury Constituency – Biography of Langford-Holt

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shrewsbury Constituency – Biography of Langford-Holt

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Shrewsbury

    CANDIDATE : Langford-Holt

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Langford-Holt, one of the youngest members in the last Parliament, aged 34, is a local man and went to Shrewsbury School, and is a grandson of a former mayor. He was secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Labour Committee and joint secretary of the House of Commons branch of the British Legion. Has travelled Middle Europe, India, and Africa to obtain first-hand knowledge of local problems. During the war he served in the Fleet Air Arm.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wells Constituency – Biography of Marreco

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wells Constituency – Biography of Marreco

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wells

    CANDIDATE : Marreco

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Marreco, a barrister, 34 years of age, took part in the Nuremberg trial of the German war criminals. Later he went to Berlin as British member of the Four-Power Allied Directorate of Internal Affairs and became chief staff officer to the political adviser to the British Military Governor. He was a lieutenant-commander in the Fleet Air Arm during the war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lichfield and Tamworth Constituency – Biography of Snow

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lichfield and Tamworth Constituency – Biography of Snow

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lichfield and Tamworth

    CANDIDATE : Snow

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. W. Snow, aged 40, who represented Central Portsmouth in the last Parliament, was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasu?y, 1946-49, and previously Vice-Chamberlain of the Household. He was educated at Haileybury and the University of Sor-bonne, Paris, and was for nine years with a rubber company in England, East Africa, and India. He is a member ofthe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, and of the Fabian Society. He served in the Royal Artillery in the last war. He is a gieat-grandson of William Hazlitt, the essayist.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sudbury and Woodbridge Constituency – Biography of James

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sudbury and Woodbridge Constituency – Biography of James

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sudbury and Woodbridge

    CANDIDATE : James

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Frederick James was born in 1892, and during the 1914-18 war was general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in India. From 1928-41 he was political adviser to British, interests in South India and a member of the All India Legislative Assembly, 1932-45. He was knighted in 1941.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Esher Constituency – Biography of Brown

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Esher 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 : Esher

    CANDIDATE : Brown

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. R. Brown, born in 1900, has spent his life in the steel industry. He rose from the bench to executive level, and is the manager of a firm of steel manufacturers. In addition, he is a director of steel and industrial companies, and a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. For some years he was a member of the Surrey County Council. He served in the R.F.C. in the 1914-18 war. He is a member of the national executive of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Surrey Conservative Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eastbourne Constituency – Biography of Groves

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eastbourne Constituency – Biography of Groves

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eastbourne

    CANDIDATE : Groves

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Groves is an author, journalist, and lecturer, aged 41, who lectures for Labour colleges and the W.E.A. He contested Ayles-bury in 1938 and 1945, and has been a member of the Labour Party for 25 years.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Horsham Constituency – Biography of Marchant

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Horsham Constituency – Biography of Marchant

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Horsham

    CANDIDATE : Marchant

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss E. M. Marchant was born at Mansfield, Notts, in 1888, and was educated at Mansfield and Royal Holloway College. After teaching at Westcliff-on-Sea, Darlington, and Mansfield, she was head mistress of Horsham High School for Girls for 28 years, retiring last year.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Warwick and Leamington Constituency – Biography of Bithell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Warwick and Leamington Constituency – Biography of Bithell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Warwick and Leamington

    CANDIDATE : Bithell

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Bithell was born in 1909, and is a native of Wrexham, north Wales. He is an accountant by profession and has been a member of Tamworth Borough Council since 1946. For 20 years he has been a Baptist lay preacher, and is a member of the Baptist Men’s Movement National Executive Council. A member of the Clerical and Administrative Workers’ Union, he has been a lecturer at the National Council of Labour Colleges.

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