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 : Worcester

CANDIDATE : Gardiner

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. W. H. P. Gardiner, who was born in Co. Kerry, has developed one of the largest herds of pedigree pigs in the county at his home near Droitwich. He was educated at Abbey College, Co. Tipperary, and Wellington Cadet College, India. He was commissioned in 1920 and served in the Indian Army. During the last war he held four staff appointments with the Sind Independent Brigade and was commandant of the Indian War Dog Training Centre. He has many trophies for horsemanship.

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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 : Knight

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. S. Knight, an economist and industrial accountant, is an associate of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants, and has wide experience in commerce and industry. He was born in 1909 and educated at Christ’s College, Finchley, and the London School of Economics under Lord Beveridge, graduating at London University.

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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 : Moir

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. G. Moir, a local man, aged 32, is national organizer of the cadet movement of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. He was educated at Berkhamsted School, and at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He has served on Aylesbury R.D.C. and is a member of the county council. He was a prisoner of war in the Far East for three and a half years.

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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 : Samways

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. E. Samways was born in Handforth in 1910 and has lived in the Cheadle locality all his life. He has been a member of the Cheadle and Gatley Council. Managing director of a firm of radio and electrical engineers, he lectured to the R.A.F. during the war on radar and allied subjects.

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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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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 : Bishop Auckland

CANDIDATE : Lambton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Viscount Lambton, aged 27, is the heir to the Earl of Durham. During the war he served for a time in The Hampshire Regiment, but was invalided out. He then took up war work in a Wallsend factory. In 1945 he was chairman of the Young Conservative organization in the northern area, comprising Northumberland, Durham, and Cumberland, and he was a member of Durham County Council from 1947 to 1949, when he did not seek re-election. He was educated at Harrow.

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