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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Horncastle Constituency – Biography of Clark

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Horncastle Constituency – Biography of Clark

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Horncastle

    CANDIDATE : Clark

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. H. Clark, a teacher with farming as ? side line, has been secretary and chairman of the Gainsborough division of the Labour Party and, since 1946, a member of the Lindsey County Council. During the 1914-18 war he served with The Sherwood Foresters and was taken prisoner. His four sons all served in the R.A.C. in the late war. Born in 1893, he studied at Nottingham University College and at London University.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk North Constituency – Biography of Gooch

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk North Constituency – Biography of Gooch

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norfolk North

    CANDIDATE : Gooch

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. G. Gooch, elected for the constituency in 1945, is president of the National Union of Agricultural Workers and a member of the Agricultural Committee of the International Labour Office. He was United Kingdom adviser at meetings of the Food and Agriculture Organization in Quebec and Copenhagen. Born in Norfolk, where he is a county alderman and a magistrate, he is 59 years old.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Peterborough Constituency – Biography of Nicholls

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Peterborough Constituency – Biography of Nicholls

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Peterborough

    CANDIDATE : Nicholls

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Nicholls, son of a miner, of Walsall, was born in 1912. A barrister of Middle Temple, he has not practised, and is in business at Walsall as a surveyor. Keenly interested in local government in Staffordshire, he is chairman of Darlaston U.D.C. During the war he served in the Royal Engineers in India and Burma, flying home to fight Nelson and Colne at the last General Election.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bassetlaw Constituency – Biography of Bellenger

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bassetlaw Constituency – Biography of Bellenger

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bassetlaw

    CANDIDATE : Bellenger

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. J. Bellenger has represented the constituency since 1935. He served in the Army in the early part of the war, attaining the rank of captain, and was at Dunkirk. When the Labour Government was formed in 1945 he was appointed Under-Secre-tary of State for War, and was Secretary of State for War in 1946 and 1947. He is a surveyor. After resigning his commission he wrote for a Sunday newspaper on service topics.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rushcliffe Constituency – Biography of Lawson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rushcliffe Constituency – Biography of Lawson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rushcliffe

    CANDIDATE : Lawson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Lawson, deputy city engineer of Nottingham, was Common Wealth M.P. for Skipton (Yorkshire), being returned at a by-election in 1944 and defeated in 1945 in Harrow West. He is 37, and joined the Royal Engineers in October, 1939, and was commissioned in the following May. He served on the ground staff of a much-bombed airfield during the Battle of Britain, and later spent three years in Gibraltar.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wrekin, The Constituency – Biography of Bibbings

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wrekin, The Constituency – Biography of Bibbings

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wrekin, The

    CANDIDATE : Bibbings

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Capt. F. G. Bibbings is chief public relations officer of the Road Haulage Association. He has served on the Yorkshire Conciliation Board of the road transport industry and the joint industrial board for municipal employees. He has also had local government experience. In the first world war he was commissioned from the ranks, and in the second was captured at Dunkirk while serving with the Royal Engineers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Yeovil Constituency – Biography of Kingsmill

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Yeovil Constituency – Biography of Kingsmill

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Yeovil

    CANDIDATE : Kingsmill

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. W. H. Kings-mill, who became M.P. for the division in 1945, is a member of a family whose records go back to the days of King John. Born in 1905 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he later became a director of a brewery firm and a member of the London Stock Exchange. He was with the Grenadier Guards at Dunkirk, and later fought with the ” Desert Rats ” in North Africa.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stafford and Stone Constituency – Biography of McEldowney

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stafford and Stone Constituency – Biography of McEldowney

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stafford and Stone

    CANDIDATE : McEldowney

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    The Rev. W. J. McEldowney was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1889. He took his LL.B. degree at Victoria University College and first practised as a solicitor. He served in the first world war for thiee years with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He came to England in 1933, and after spending three years at Manchester College, Oxford, entered the Unitarian ministry, and became a minister at Chester, and then at Newcastle-under-Lyme.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carshalton Constituency – Biography of Clarke

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carshalton Constituency – Biography of Clarke

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carshalton

    CANDIDATE : Clarke

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. Clarke, 37, was educated at Dulwich College and Corpus Christi College (Oxford), where he graduated B.A. with honours. He had wide experience as a foreign correspondent in Eastern Europe, in broadcasting, and film production, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the last war. Since the war he has been assisting in the direction of documentary films.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Farnham Constituency – Biography of Nicholson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Farnham Constituency – Biography of Nicholson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Farnham

    CANDIDATE : Nicholson

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Godfrey Nicholson, member of a firm of distillers, was born in 1901 and educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1931 for Morpeth, where he turned a Labour majority of 16,500 into a Conservative majority of over 1,000, being the first Conservative to win the seat. Defeated in 1935, he was Teturned for Farnham in 1937 and re-elected in 1945. While M.P. for Morpeth, he introduced and secured the p?s age of the Workmen’s Compensation (Coal Mines) Act, 1934. He has twice visited India, and during the war served with the Royal Fusiliers and the Commandos.

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