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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rhondda East Constituency – Biography of Mainwaring

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rhondda East Constituency – Biography of Mainwaring

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rhondda East

    CANDIDATE : Mainwaring

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. H. Mainwaring, who has held the seat since 1933, was born in 1885 at Swansea, and went to Rhondda in his early years to work in the mines. He studied at the Central Labour College, London, for two years, returned to the coal face, and went back to the college in 1919 as economics lecturer and vice-principal. In 1924 he became miners’ agent in Rhondda, which post he held until he became M.P.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Breconshire and Radnorshire Constituency – Biography of Paton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Breconshire and Radnorshire Constituency – Biography of Paton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Breconshire and Radnorshire

    CANDIDATE : Paton

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. M. R. Paton was nominated as an Independent Liberal, the local association having decided not to contest the seat, and subsequently his candidature was approved by Liberal headquarters. Born in Pontypool, he is the third son of a South Wales industrialist and was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford. He is a haulage contractor.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Llanelli Constituency – Biography of Morgan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Llanelli Constituency – Biography of Morgan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Llanelli

    CANDIDATE : Morgan

    PARTY : Welsh Nat.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    The Rev. D. E. Morgan, a Baptist minister, aged 30, graduated with honours in Welsh at the University of Wales and took his B.A. degree at the Honours School of Theology at Oxford. In 1945 he won the fine prose competition at the Rhos National Eisteddfod.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barry Constituency – Biography of Rees

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barry Constituency – Biography of Rees

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barry

    CANDIDATE : Rees

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. D. Rees was at one time a schoolteacher and was formerly a member of Barry Borough Council. She is an alderman of Glamorgan County Council and a member of the national advisory committee for National Insurance. She is also a member of the Joint Education Committee for Wales and of the Welsh Teaching Hospitals Board.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Pontypridd Constituency – Biography of Rhys-Roberts

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Pontypridd Constituency – Biography of Rhys-Roberts

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Pontypridd

    CANDIDATE : Rhys-Roberts

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. T. E. R. Rhys-Roberts, a Regular Army officer, was educated at Westminster and Sandhurst. After active service in the last war, he was seconded to the Foreign Office and was attached to the British Embassy, Athens. He is a barrister practising on the Wales and Chester circuit. He has broadcast and compered the B.B.C. feature programme ” Welsh Magazine.”

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Pontypool Constituency – Biography of Mathias

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Pontypool Constituency – Biography of Mathias

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Pontypool

    CANDIDATE : Mathias

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. A. R. Mathias was born at Pont-newydd(Mon.)in 1916. He served in the Royal Navy during the last war and attained the rank of lieutenant-commander at the age of 26. On demobilization he became a chief maintenance officer for Unrra. Later he worked in Australia with a firm of consulting engineers, and afterwards returned to this country in connexion with machinery for a new paper mill company in Australia.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dundee East Constituency – Biography of Cook

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dundee East Constituency – Biography of Cook

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dundee East

    CANDIDATE : Cook

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. F. Cook, an electrician, was elected senior member for Dundee in 1945. He is 41. Formerly a member of the I.L.P. and the Scottish Socialist Party, he joined the Labour Party in 1933. A lecturer in economics and industrial history for the National Council of Labour Colleges, he has been Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr.Harold Wilson at the Board of Trade.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Leith Constituency – Biography of Hoy

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Leith Constituency – Biography of Hoy

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh Leith

    CANDIDATE : Hoy

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. H. Hoy, who won the seat from Mr. Ernest Brown in 1945, is an interior decorator, aged 41, who went to an elementary school and Causewayside and Sciennes, Edinburgh. He joined the Royal Corps of Signals and served with the Eighth Army in Africa and the B.L.A. in Europe. He has served as Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Under-Secretaiy of State for War. He was a member of the Parliamentary delegation to Germany.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Bridgeton Constituency – Biography of Irwin

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Bridgeton Constituency – Biography of Irwin

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Bridgeton

    CANDIDATE : Irwin

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Irwin, aged 21, is one of the youngest candidates in Scotland. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and Oxford and has spoken in many by-elections.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Govan Constituency – Biography of Davis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Govan Constituency – Biography of Davis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Govan

    CANDIDATE : Davis

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Davis was selected as the Labour candidate in place of Mr. Neil Maclean, who had represented the constituency since 1918 and was willing to stand again but was regarded as being too old at 75. Aged 48, and an advertising consultant, Mr. Davis has been a member of Glasgow Corporation since 1935.

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