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 : Dunbartonshire East

CANDIDATE : Kirkwood

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. David Kirkwood was member for the old Dumbarton Burghs division since 1922, and in spite of his 78 years is still an active worker for Clydeside, with which he has been long associated. Educated at Parkhead Public School, he was trained as an engineer and for many years was recognized as the engineers’ leader in Scotland. He was on Glasgow Town Council for four years before entering Parliament. He was a strong advocate of the Government financial support for building the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth. In 1948 he was made a Privy Councillor.

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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 : Ross and Cromarty

CANDIDATE : Reid

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. C. Reid, born in 1925, took an M.A. degree with honours in economics and politics at Glasgow University, where he is studying law. He founded the Glasgow University Labour Party, was its first secretary and has been chairman. In the last war he worked as a coal miner.

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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 : Lanarkshire North

CANDIDATE : Herbison

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss M. Herbison was born in 1907 and educated at Glasgow University and is a teacher. A daughter of a miner, she has been associated with the Labour movement all her life. She won North Lanark from the Conservatives in 1945. She is the only woman member of the Miners’ Welfare Commission, and she went to Strasbourg last August as the only woman delegate of the British Government to the Council of Europe. She is a member of the national executive of the Labour Party.

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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 : Kinross and West Perthshire

CANDIDATE : McLaren

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. D. McLaren was born at Balquhid-der 39 years ago and was educated at Edinburgh University. Although a qualified chartered accountant, he never practised. As a major in the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, he was attached to the British Intelligence Service in the war. He also served with General Eisenhower’s Intelligence Staff, and was three years at Shaef, where he was head of the economic counter-espionage intelligence. His wife is an official of the American Intelligence Service.

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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 : West Stirlingshire

CANDIDATE : Anderson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss B. M. H. Anderson was born in 1915 and educated at St. Leonard’s School, St. Andrews. She has been a member of Stirling County Council since 1945, and before that she was a member of the Dunnipace District Council for 10 years. During the war Miss Anderson held the rank of chief commander of the A.T.S., and was the first woman member of the Glasgow Territorial Association.

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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 : Battersea North

CANDIDATE : Jay

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Douglas Jay, who was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury in December, 1947, was born in 1907, and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of All Souls, he is a journalist and specialist in economics. He entered the Ministry of Supply in 1940 to help the munitions drive, and three years later went to the Board of Trade as personal assistant to Mr. Dalton to help in the planning of post-war industrial reconstruction. He was elected for Battersea North in 1946.

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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 : Camberwell Dulwich

CANDIDATE : Baker

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Baker, a barrister, born in 1913, was commissioned in 1940 and served in Holland and France. Later he commanded a parachute squadron of the Royal Engineers and moved with the 1 st Airborne Division to North Africa in 1943. He was appointed to the planning staff of the Allied Land Forces in South-East Asia in July, 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 : Fulham East

CANDIDATE : Stewart

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Stewart became Under-Secretary for War in 1947. Born in 1906, he was educated at Christ’s Hospital and Oxford, where he became president of the Union and chairman of the University Labour Club. He was formerly a teacher and lecturer for the Workers’ Educational Association, and during the war was a captain in the Intelligence Corps.

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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 : Hammersmith North

CANDIDATE : Pritt

PARTY : Lab. Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. N. Pritt, K.C., who represented the division from 1935 until the dissolution, was born in 1887 and educated at Winchester, London University and abroad. He took silk in 1927. Formerly a member of the national executive, he was expelled from the Labour Party in 1940 because of his opposition to official policy on Russia and Finland. In the last Parliament he became chairman of the ” Independent ” group of five Labour Members. He is also chairman of the Society for Cultural Relations with the U.S.S.R., and president of the Student Labour Federation.

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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 : Islington North

CANDIDATE : Page

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. G. Page, who is aged 39, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. His father, the late Lt.-Col. F. Page, The Hertfordshire Regiment, and his grandfather were mayors of Hertford. A solicitor, Mr. Page has taken a special interest in road safety, being chairman of the Pedestrians’ Association.

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