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 : Wimbledon

CANDIDATE : Deacon

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. L. Deacon, born in 1893, was a student of commerce at Reading University. He is a company secretary and director, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries. He is a former hon. secretary of Ilford Trades Council, and was chairman of Caver-sham Labour Party for seven years. He is on the Surrey County Council, and a member of the Clerical and Administrative Workers’ Union.

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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 : Worcester

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Evans is a school teacher. When he left school at 14 he worked in one of the anthracite mines in South Wales. After four years of soldiering he returned to his former occupation, and then gained admission to a training college where he qualified as a school teacher. He has been associated with the administration of the Co-operative Society for many years. He is a former president of the Llanelly Divisional Labour Party. He lives in Carmarthenshire.

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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 : Bedfordshire South

CANDIDATE : Fearnley-Whittingstall

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. A. Fearnley-Whittingstall, K.C., is Recorder of Grantham and deputy chairman of Bedfordshire quarter sessions. When only 26 he contested Seaham against Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in the 1929 election. He£corn-manded the 18th Indian L.A.A. Regiment in the last war and was mentioned in dispatches.

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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 : Aylesbury

CANDIDATE : Harman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. S. Harman farms 440 acres in the division. He is 37, and is 6ft. 6in. tall. He read agriculture at Cambridge, and is a pioneer in the use of the two-shift system of milking. He is a member of the county A.E.C., chairman of the British Socialist Agricultural Society, and a past chairman of Chesham N.F.U. and of Aylesbury Labour Party.

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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 : Cheadle

CANDIDATE : Hatton-Jones

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. G. Hatton-Jones is 53 years of age and lives at Mellor, of which he is a native. A Baptist minister, for many years he served in London, where he did much social work in the slums of the East End. He is the minister of Wycliffe Baptist Church, Disley. Before he entered the ministry he was a textile representative. He served in the Army in the 1914-18 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 : Runcorn

CANDIDATE : Wharrad

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. H. Wharrad was born in 1911 and is organization adviser to the Raw Cotton Commission. He is chairman of the Bromley Fabian Society, and contested the Bromley Borough Council elections in 1947. During the war he served in the R.A.F. and rose to the rank of wing commander.

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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 : Cornwall North

CANDIDATE : Foot

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Dingle Foot, who was born in Plymouth in 1905, is a son of Mr. Isaac Foot. He was called to the Bar when he was 25, and practises on the Western Circuit. In 1931 he was elected M.P. for Dundee, a constituency which he represented for 14 years. In Mr. Churchill’s war-time Government he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare. He was present at the San Francisco Conference which framed the United Nations Charter.

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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 : Belper

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. A. Brown, aged 34, won Belper in 1945. He began his working life as a shop assistant, and later became a full-time official of the Transport and General Workers’ Union. He was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Labour until 1947, and afterwards with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Later he became joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture. He served on the Hertfordshire War Agricultural 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 : Derbyshire West

CANDIDATE : Wakefield

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. B. Wakefield, born in 1903, was educated at Haileybury and Cambridge, and in 1927 entered the Indian Civil Service. He served in several Indian States as Chief Minister, and in 1946-47 worked under Lord Wavell and Lord Mountbatten. He is a brother of Sir W. W. Wakefield, and holds the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society for saving life from drowning in 1933.

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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 : Torrington

CANDIDATE : Rashleigh

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. E. Rashleigh, wife of a doctor, is vice-president of the Devon and Cornwall Liberal Federation; she has undertaken much public work and is a leading figure in the Women’s Institute and youth movements.

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