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 : 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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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 : East Grinstead

CANDIDATE : Williamson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. C. E. Williamson was born in 1897, and taught Braille shorthand and typewriting to blind persons after the 1914-18 war. From 1925 to 1935, she was engaged in social service work in Canterbury and was elected to the City Council in the latter year. First woman mayor of Canterbury in 1938, she served until 1940, when she was injured in a bombing raid. She rejoined the council in 1942.

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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 : Nuneaton

CANDIDATE : Harris

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Harris is a London textile manufacturer who served in the1 1914-18 war. A resident of Nuneaton, he is an active member of the British Legion.

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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 : Westmorland

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. N. Wilson is a chartered civil engineer and managing director of a firm of water turbine manufacturers. He was born in 1908, and joined the Labour Party in 1942. From 1938 to 1947 he was a member of Kendal Town Council, and from 1946 has been chairman of the Kendal and District Youth Employment committee. He served in the Royal Navy during the war and rose to the rank of lieutenant-commander, winning the D.S.C. in 1945.

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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 : Bromsgrove

CANDIDATE : Chesworth

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. P. Chesworth polled more than 19,000 votes against Mr. Anthony Eden in the Warwick and Leamington division in 1945. He served as a fireman during the Birmingham blitz, and was active in forming the Fire Brigades Union. At the age of 26 he is a governor of five secondary schools and a remand home in the London area, and has paid 35 visits to Europe since 1945.

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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 : Cleveland

CANDIDATE : Childe

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. L. B. Childe, aged 55, a manufacturer’s agent in Leeds, is a member of Leeds Chamber of Commerce and of the Cotton Board. A Methodist local preacher and well known in Bradford and Leeds cricketing circles, he has also engaged actively in municipal government in Leeds. He fought with the 50th Division 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 : Dearne Valley

CANDIDATE : Dower

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. A. L. G. Dower, was unsuccessful in the Wentworth Division in the 1945 election. Born in 1907. she served during the war on the A.T.S., and was education staff officer in the Middle East. She provided employment for ex-service women by starting a toy factory. She is the wife of Col. A. Dower, M.P. for Penrith and Cockermouth in the last Parliament.

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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 : Ripon

CANDIDATE : Hill

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. S. Hill was born in 1913, and was educated at Goldsmiths’ College, London University, where he graduated M.A. and B.Sc. (Econ ). He is a teacher at Leeds Central High School and a part-time W.E.A. tutor in economics. He is a fellow of the Royal Economic Society. In 1935 he joined the Labour Party, and is a member of the Fabian Society, and the National Union of Teachers.

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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 : Aberdare

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. A. T. M. Wilson, who was born in 1913, was educated at Cambridge and University College, Exeter. He qualified at Cardiff Medical School in 1940. He was a member Of Aberdare Council, 1938-47, and of the local hospital board and regional hospital committee. He was a member of the Communist Party Welsh executive committee, 1943-45.

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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 : Rhondda East

CANDIDATE : Pollitt

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Harry Pollitt, leader of the Communist Party, was born in 18S0, and fought the seat in 1935 and 1945. He went to work at 12 in a Lancashire cotton mill, and was later a boilermaker. After leading many dock and shipyard movements for better conditions for the workers, he was sentenced to 12 months’imprisonment in 1925 for sedition, and, with Tom Mann, was arrested in Cardiff in 1934 but was released. During the Spanish Civil War he organized the British battalion of the International Brigade, and visited Spain several times.

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