CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewisham South
CANDIDATE : Rouse
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. W. Rouse, a master builder and decorator in Surrey, aged 53, went to Millwall *~entral School and trained as a technical engineer. In that capacity with an electrical company after the war he travelled widely in America.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Poplar
CANDIDATE : Watson
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. Watson, full-time leader of the dockers, lightermen, and seamen in the Port of London, began work as a messenger at Canning Town, where he attended Star Lane School. At 16 he became an apprentice lighterman, and later was a foreman lighterman and afterwards mate of a tug.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stepney
CANDIDATE : Edwards
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. J. Edwards, who is 49, served as a naval stoker during the two world wars and was the first man to go diEect from the lower deck to the House of Commons, to which he was elected as member for White-chapel in 1942 and again in 1945. He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty throughout the late Government. He was mayor of Stepney in 1944-45, and at one time a trade union organizer in the London docks.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Putney
CANDIDATE : Chaplin
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. Irene Chaplin is better known politically by her maiden name of Irene Marcouse, in which she unsuccessfully fought Holborn in the 1945 election. She was coopted to the Holborn Borough Council in 1939, and after 1945 became leader of the majority until 1949. Since elected to the London County Council as representative of East Islington in 1946, she has served on the education, town planning, and finance committees.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Acton
CANDIDATE : Sparks
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. A. Sparks first became M.P. for Acton in 1945. He was a railway clerk until that time and a member of the National Union of Rail way men, by whom he is sponsored. A large number of rail-waymen live in Acton. Mr. Sparks promoted in 1949 the Hairdressers’ Registration Bill, which failed to pass. He served for many years on Acton Borough Council.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barrow-in-Furness
CANDIDATE : Monslow
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. Monslow is national organizing secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. Born in 1895 and educated at an elementary school, he worked on the Great Western Railway as cleaner, fireman and driver from 1911-33. He has held all local and district offices of his union and was 10 years on the executive before being elected organizing secretary, 1939. He served on Parliamentary delegation to Greece, 1946; and led the T.U.C. delegation to Russia, 1937. He was first elected M.P. for Barrow in Furnessin 1945.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bexley
CANDIDATE : Bramall
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. Bramall was elected for Bexley in a by-election in July, 1946, with a majority of 1,851. Bora in 1916, he is a barrister, having been called to the Bar last year. He is a former member of Twickenham Borough Council. Enlisting in the Army as a trooper, he reached the rank of major. In 1938 he was treasurer of the Oxford Union.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Edgbaston
CANDIDATE : Hobson
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. A. Hobson, a Birmingham man born in 1899, won a foundation scholarship at King Edward’s Grammar School, Birmingham, at the age of 10. After employment in an export merchant’s office and service in the first war, he was for 20 years chief clerk in a manufacturing concern. Last year he was appointed a lecturer in health education in the schools by Birmingham Health Department.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Perry Barr
CANDIDATE : Poole
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Cecil Poole represented the old Lichfield division from 1938 to 1945. A native of Wellington, Salop, he is aged 48. He was a member of Walsall Borough Council from 1931 to 1938. He began work at the age of 16 with the L.M.S. Railway in South Wales, and later served in Westmorland and the Midlands. During the second world war he served in the Royal Engineers, reaching the rank of major.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blackburn East
CANDIDATE : Castle
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. Barbara Castle, aged 38, was one of the two M.P.s for Blackburn m the last Parliament. She won a scholarship to St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, and entered journalism. An administrative officer m the Ministry of Food until her election to parliament in 1945, she was later Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps when he was at the Board of Trade, and to his successor, Mr. H. Wilson. Last year she was one of the ontish representatives at the General Assembly °t the United Nations.
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