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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Jarrow Constituency – Biography of Fernyhough

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Jarrow Constituency – Biography of Fernyhough

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Jarrow

    CANDIDATE : Fernyhough

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Fernyhough was for 12 years a full-time official of the Union of Shop Assistants, Distributive and Allied Workers. He is 39, was born in a Staffordshire mining village, and first worked in the local colliery. He has since been closely associated with the Co-operative movement in Durham. In May, 1947, he was elected to Parliament for Jarrow, succeeding the late Miss Ellen Wilkinson.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Colchester Constituency – Biography of Smith

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Colchester Constituency – Biography of Smith

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Colchester

    CANDIDATE : Smith

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Smith, who gained Colchester in 1945, and became Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister for Commonwealth Relations, was formerly assistant secretary to the Civil Service Clerical Association. At Oxford he took an honours degree in modern history and was chairman of the University Labour Club. Aged 33, he served in Europe in the war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Thurrock Constituency – Biography of Solley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Thurrock Constituency – Biography of Solley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Thurrock

    CANDIDATE : Solley

    PARTY : Lab. Ind.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. J. Solley won Thurrock in 1945 but was expelled from the Labour Party in 1949. Aged 43, he won his way by scholarships from an elementary school to London University and was called to the Bar. He is a Profumo prizeman of the Inner Temple. As a practising barrister he has specialized in housing and town-planning law.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aldershot Constituency – Biography of Hidden

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aldershot Constituency – Biography of Hidden

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aldershot

    CANDIDATE : Hidden

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. N. F. Hidden, aged 37, was educated through scholarships at Hereford Cathedral School and Brasenose College, Oxford. After teaching at Macclesfield he went as assistant professor of English at Adrian College, United States. He returned to serve in the war, and is manager of a commercial firm.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leominster Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leominster Constituency – Biography of Jones

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leominster

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. J. M. Jones, the first Labour candidate to stand for Leominster, is a highway employee of Monmouth County Council. He helped to develop the National Union of Agricultural Workers and is a member of the county A.E.C. For 10 years he has been secretary of Monmouth Federation of Trades and Labour Councils : he is a local preacher.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Albans Constituency – Biography of Abel

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Albans Constituency – Biography of Abel

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : St Albans

    CANDIDATE : Abel

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. Abel, secretary of the Free Trade Union, holds several offices in the Liberal Party organization, including membership of the party council and of the executive of Home Counties Liberal Federation. He is author of “A History of British Tariffs, 1923-42,” and of many articles in periodicals. Born in 1918, he was educated at the London School of Economics and London University.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dover Constituency – Biography of Morrison

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dover Constituency – Biography of Morrison

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dover

    CANDIDATE : Morrison

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Morrison, now 37, and a miner working in the Kent coalfield, served with the Fleet Air Arm during the war, and afterwards became a student at Ruskin College, Oxford.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Maidstone Constituency – Biography of Bossom

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Maidstone Constituency – Biography of Bossom

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Maidstone

    CANDIDATE : Bossom

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. C. Bossom, member for Maidstone since 1931, was born in London in 1881. At the age of 23 he went to the United States, where in 10 years he built up a large architectural practice. Since his retirement from business in 1926 he has given his time to the modernization of the building industry, and accompanied the British Building Mission to America in 1943. As an alderman of the London County Council he was chairman of the Slum Clearance Committee until 1934.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Clitheroe Constituency – Biography of Fort

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Clitheroe Constituency – Biography of Fort

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Clitheroe

    CANDIDATE : Fort

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Fort, aged 41, an industrial chemist, contested the division in 1945, and his grandfather and uncle were M.P.s for Clitheroe. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he took B.Sc, and in 1935 joined Imperial Chemical Industries, becoming president of I.C.I. (New York) Limited, in 1938. After service with the British Purchasing Commission in the United States he was with the Ministry of Supply, and is technical consultant to I.C.I.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ince Constituency – Biography of Brown

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ince Constituency – Biography of Brown

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ince

    CANDIDATE : Brown

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Tom Brown, 63, member for Ince since 1942, spent 44 years working in and about the coal mines in the Wigan district. He has served on the executive of the National Union of Mine-workers and has? been vice-president of the Lancashire and Cheshire , area. He is president of |ft the National Federation ^^ja* of Old-age Pensioners’ Associations.

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