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 : Islington East

CANDIDATE : Wilmot

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. K. Wilmot, born in 1906 in Bo’ness, West Lothian, became a Conservative Party official in Edinburgh, and later political secretary to the Duchess of Atholl. Early in the war she was a motor driver for the Bucks police, and later became an A.B.C.A. lecturer.

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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 : Lambeth Brixton

CANDIDATE : Lipton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. M. Lipton, Who won Brixton for the Labour Party in 1945, was born in 1900 in ^underland and went to Oxford with a scholar-snip- He studied law and was called to the Bar in 1926. He became an alderman of Lambeth Borough Council. A Private in the Territorial Army before the war, ne rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. His recreation is ” giving aavice,” and he has conducted a free advice bureau m Brixton since 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 : Lewisham South

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Jones, aged 49, is a London bus “river. He was secretary of the London Busmen’s Rank and File Movement, 1932-37, and took a leading part in the strike in 1937. Expelled from the Transport and General Workers’ Union in 1937, he was readmitted in ^ 38, and became chairman of the Central Bus Committee in 1944. He was elected to the executive committee in 1943, but the rule debarring Communists from holding office in the union prevented his sitting on the committee. He is vice-chairman of the London District Committee of the Communist 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 : St Marylebone

CANDIDATE : Wakefield

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir W. Wavell Wakefield became M.P. for this division in 1945, after having represented Swindon in Parliament since 1935. He was educated at Sedbergh and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is a company director and on the executive of the National Union of j Manufacturers. Now 51, he is a former captain of England, Cambridge University, Middlesex, the R.A.F., and the Harlequins, and is vice-president of the Rugby Football Union.

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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 : Stepney

CANDIDATE : Solomon

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Cmdr. M. H. B. Solomon, is a company director in the export trade. Born in 1915, he was educated at Rugby and Cambridge, and served in the R.N.V.R. in the war, winning the D.S.C. for service in motor torpedo boats at Dunkirk and Tobruk. He was also decorated for his part in underground operations in Greece during the German occupation.

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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 : Wandsworth Putney

CANDIDATE : Alton

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. B. Alton was educated at Brighton College and London University, and is 49. In the war he rose from private to major on trie General Staff. He is a director of several companies, and was responsible during the war for a number of legal publications, particularly on early war-time legislation. For five years he was president of Wembley Liberal 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 : Acton

CANDIDATE : Willment

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Willment, who lives at Isleworth, was educated at Emanuel School, Wandsworth, and started work in a surveyor’s office. He gained his A.M.I.C.E. and at 21 began a civil engineering firm. His father and uncles direct a well-known firm of constructional engineers. In 1946 he was the only Conservative to be elected to Middlesex County Council for Heston and Isleworth.

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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 : Barrow-in-Furness

CANDIDATE : Sugden

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Wilfrid H. Sugden has had a long experience of Parliamentary life, having first represented Royton, 1918-23. Later he sat for The Hartlepools, 1924-29, and W. Leyton, 1931-35. Aged 61, he was educated at Waterloo School and London University, and was called to the Bar in 1928. He later became a constructional engineer, and devoted much time to social and public work in Lancashire.

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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 : Bexley

CANDIDATE : Hart

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss M. E. Hart, a City bank clerk, was born in 1916. She claims direct descent from Sir Humphrey Davy and has travelled extensively.

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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 : Birmingham Hall Green

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Aubrey Jones, with few early material advantages, gained scholarships which took him to the London School of Economics, where, at the age of 22, he was at the top of the first-class honours list Taking up journalism as a career he was a foreign correspondent until his work was interrupted by war service. In 1948 he became political officer to Sir Andrew Duncan at the British Iron and Steel Federation.

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