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 : Gateshead East

CANDIDATE : Clift

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Clift was born in 1916, both his parents being school teachers. After leaving Oxford he practised as a solicitor. He was chairman of the Lancaster Division of Young Conservatives, and is keenly interested in the scout movement.

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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 : Halifax

CANDIDATE : Pickles

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Pickles is the elder brother of Wilfred Pickles, the broadcaster. Born in 1901 he was articled to a local architect, and for the past 20 years has been in practice on his own account. As chairman of the Halifax housing committee he opened last summer its one-thousandth post-war house. During the war he became chairman of the civil defence committee.

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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 : Hastings

CANDIDATE : Cohen

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Cohen, a native of Hastings, was born in 1897, and is managing director of a building society in Brighton. He was elected to the town council in 1930. He is a former chairman of the Brighton and Hove I.L.P. and the Brighton and Hove Fabian Society. He farms at Hangleton, Sussex.

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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 : Hornchurch

CANDIDATE : Bing

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Geoffrey Bing, who was the first M.P. for Hornchurch, was for a time a Government whip, chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party Defence and Services Group, and chairman of the House of Commons branch of the British Legion. Born in 1909, he is a barrister and was one of the founders of the National Council of Civil Liberties in 1934. During the war he served in North Africa and Europe and was wounded.

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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 : Ilford North

CANDIDATE : Alexander

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. W. Alexander, a financial journalist, formed the City of London Free Trade Club and contested the City of London as an independent Free Trade candidate in 1945. He was private secretary to Lord Beaverbrook in 1910, and worked with him at the Ministry of Information 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 : Kingston upon Hull East

CANDIDATE : Dalton

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. E. Dalton, a gunnery officer with Coastal Command, R.A.F., during the war, was born in 1909 in Leeds. His father, the late Mr. E. E. Dalton, fought S.W. Hull in 1945. A lecturer on economics and industry, he is interested in trade union questions and is a signatory of the Free Trade manifesto.

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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 : Leeds North East

CANDIDATE : Ramelson

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Ramelson, a Yorkshireman, is a law graduate from the Canadian University of Alberta. He joined the Communist Party in 1936 and served for 18 months with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. during which time he was twice wounded. He also served in the last war and was commissioned in the Royal Artillery. He is secretary of the Leeds 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 : Leicester North East

CANDIDATE : Donovan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. N. Donovan, K.C., aged 51, gained the old East Leicester seat from the Conservatives at the 1945 election. He was called to the Bar in 1924. He entered the Civil Service in 1920 and was for many years at Somerset House. He resigned in 1932 when he began practising at the Bar. In 1937 he was called to the Southern Rhodesian Bar. He was a member of the Denning Committee on divorce procedure and the Statute Law Revision Committee.

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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 : Leyton

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. J. Williams, who is 33, is a member of the staff of an insurance company. In 1939, as a member of the Territorial Army, he was commissioned almost immediately after the outbreak of the war. He saw service in the Far East and Africa, and then became a parachutist in the Special Forces organization, which coordinated with the resistance movements in occupied countries. He is a native of Hampstead.

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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 : Liverpool Kirkdale

CANDIDATE : Pritchard

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss J. S. Pritchard, aged 22, decided to stand only 48 hours before nominations closed, and was actually nominated before she was adopted. A Liverpool insurance clerk, she is secretary of the Liberal Association in the Walton division of Liverpool. She helped to form the Young Liberals’ organization in Walton.

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