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 : South Ayrshire

CANDIDATE : Hughes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Emrys Hughes won this division in 1946. Son of a former Tony-pandy minister, he was born in 1894, and in 1924 married a daughter of the late Keir Hardie. A journalist, he has travelled a good deal in Europe, including Russia. He has also had long experience in local government, specializing in housing questions.

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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 : Dunbartonshire West

CANDIDATE : McKinlay

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. S. McKinlay was M.P. for the Partick division of Glasgow in 1929-31, and Dunbarton from 1941 to the dissolution. Formerly a woodworker and trade union organizer in the Clyde shipyards, he has been a prominent member of Glasgow Corporation and Convener of the Housing Committee.

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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 : Western Isles

CANDIDATE : Murray

PARTY : Scot. Home Rule

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Murray, born in 1900, took a B.Sc in engineering at Glasgow University, later studied steel making in Germany, was an engineer in Australia, and a steel salesman in the United States and South America. Now an industrial journalist, he is a member of the Committee of the Scottish Convention, and played a part in the launching of the latest Covenant.

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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 : Rutherglen

CANDIDATE : McAllister

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. McAllister, who was born in 1906, was educated at Wishaw High School and Glasgow University. A public relations consultant, journalist, and author, he joined the Labour Party in 1924, and won Rutherglen from the Conservatives in the 1945 election. He is particularly interested in town and country planning and was secretary of the Town and Country Planning 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 : Perth and East Perthshire

CANDIDATE : Stewart

PARTY : Scot. Nat.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Stewart is 33 and a member of the council of the Scottish National Party. He is a member of Doune Town Council, having topped the poll as a Scottish Nationalist last year. He is engaged in the building trade.

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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 : West Lothian

CANDIDATE : Hynd

PARTY : Scottish Self-Govt.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Maxwell Hynd, who is in his late fifties, is a publicity agent, and lives at Dunfermline, Fife. He has worked in Australia as a farmer and gold miner, in Argentina as an engineer, and in an industrial works in America. A Scottish Home Ruler for 30 years, he acted as his own election agent and contested the seat without the support of the local Nationalist organization.

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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 : Battersea North

CANDIDATE : Mahon

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Mahon, a member of the Communist Party since 1921, is the author of “British Trade Unionism,” and a number of pamphlets. He was for many years secretary of the First of May Committee, which organized May Day demonstrations. In 1937 he served in the International Brigade in Spain.

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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 : Camberwell Peckham

CANDIDATE : Gunnell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. Gunnell, born in 1918, is an accountant. He was in The Artists’ Rifles and the R.A.S.C. during the war, and later became a lecturer on military law. He is interested in work among youth.

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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 : Fulham East

CANDIDATE : Ellesmere

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Ellesmere, born in Fulham in 1906 served on the divisional council of the Building Trade Workers and has been a tederation steward since 1946, and six times a national delegate to the Trades Union Congress. He served oversea for three years in the last war.

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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 : Hammersmith South

CANDIDATE : Fell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Anthony Fell, who lost the 1949 by-election by 1,613 votes, was born in 1914 and educated at Bedford Grammar School and in New Zealand. He has been a sheep farmer and engineer, and is a member of the Institute of Industrial Administration. Mr. Fell unsuccessfully contested Brigg in 1948.

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