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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Salford East Constituency – Biography of Hardy

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Salford East Constituency – Biography of Hardy

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Salford East

    CANDIDATE : Hardy

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. A. Hardy, a native of Salford, began work as a barber’s boy and organized a local hairdressers’ union. Entering the Salford City Council in 1922, he is a former mayor, and is ” father ” of that body. He is area secretary of the Hospital and Welfare Services Union. He is aged 60, and was first elected in 1945 for Salford South.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Heeley Constituency – Biography of Beckerlegge

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Heeley Constituency – Biography of Beckerlegge

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Heeley

    CANDIDATE : Beckerlegge

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. Beckerlegge, aged 33, is a director of a family business of tool and gauge makers largely engaged in the export trade and is secretary of the local Liberal Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southampton Itchen Constituency – Biography of Hobart

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southampton Itchen Constituency – Biography of Hobart

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southampton Itchen

    CANDIDATE : Hobart

    PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir R. H. Hobart is a lieutenant-commander in the Royal Navy. He served in destroyers in the last war until he lost an eye in operations off the coast of Italy. Debarred from further service afloat, he was employed on instructional duties at Portsmouth. Aged 35, he comes of a famous political family, being a descendant of John Hampden.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southport Constituency – Biography of Ellington

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southport Constituency – Biography of Ellington

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southport

    CANDIDATE : Ellington

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Ellington, a surveyor and director of a Chester firm of contractors, was born in Blackburn in 1909. Before the war he was in practice in Liverpool, and, as a reserve officer, was called up to the Royal Engineers and served in India and Burma until 1946.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stoke-on-Trent North Constituency – Biography of Davies

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stoke-on-Trent North Constituency – Biography of Davies

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stoke-on-Trent North

    CANDIDATE : Davies

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. E. Davies was elected for the Burslem division in 1945. He is aged 50, and is a native of Stoke. Formerly a railway clerk he is chairman of the Stoke-on-Trent Railway Clerks’ Association, and has been president, secretary and treasurer of the North Staffordshire Trades Council. From 1943 to 1945 he was a member of the Stoke City Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sutton and Cheam Constituency – Biography of Wheeler

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sutton and Cheam Constituency – Biography of Wheeler

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sutton and Cheam

    CANDIDATE : Wheeler

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. J. Wheeler, aged 30, received a secondary school education and took a London University Diploma in Economics. He is a costing officer and has lectured on economics to discussion groups.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tynemouth Constituency – Biography of Colman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tynemouth Constituency – Biography of Colman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tynemouth

    CANDIDATE : Colman

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss G. Colman, member for the division in the last Parliament, was born in 1892, the daughter of a canon of the Church of England and was brought up in a Conservative environment, but while at Newnham College, Cambridge, she adopted Socialism. Later she became a tutor in Ruskin College and a staff tutor in London University. During the war she worked as a temporary Civil servant with the Ministry of Labour and the Board of Trade.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow West Constituency – Biography of Attlee

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow West Constituency – Biography of Attlee

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Walthamstow West

    CANDIDATE : Attlee

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Clement Attlee, Prime Minister since 1945, and now in his sixty-eighth year, represented Limehouse in Parliament continuously from 1922 until the dissolution. He was educated at Haileybury and Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1905. As secretary of Toynbee Hall he gained a wide knowledge of life among the people of East London, and he was for a year Mayor of Stepney. During the 1914-18 war he served in The South Lancashire Regiment and the Tank Corps, and retired in 1919 with the rank of major. In the first Labour Government he became Under-Secretary of State for War and in the second was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Postmaster-General. From 1935 to 1940 he was Leader of the Opposition in the House, but with the formation of the National Government he became, first, Lord Privy Seal, and later Secretary of State for the Dominions and Lord President of the Council. From 1942 he was Deputy Prime Minister. When the Labour Party were returned to power he became Prime Minister and, for a time, combined that office with the post of Minister of Defence. An outstanding feature of his period of office was the grant of self-government to India and the completion of the legislative programme included in the Labour Party manifesto at the 1945 election.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wembley North Constituency – Biography of Dann

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wembley North Constituency – Biography of Dann

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wembley North

    CANDIDATE : Dann

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. B. Dann, an average-adjuster, was educated at Oxford and was president of the Oxford University Liberal Club in 1948. He is a member of the Liberal Party Council. Commissioned in The Welsh Guards during the war, he served in Italy and Austria with the 1st Guards Brigade. He was born in 1924.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wigan Constituency – Biography of Dowling

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wigan Constituency – Biography of Dowling

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wigan

    CANDIDATE : Dowling

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Dowling contested the 1948 by-election. He is 47, a native of Wigan, and a teacher at a local school. A member of Wigan Borough Council for 18 years, he is an alderman and was mayor in 1943-44. He is on the local executive of the National Union of Teachers and is interested in social work and sport.

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