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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huntingdonshire Constituency – Biography of Renton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huntingdonshire Constituency – Biography of Renton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huntingdonshire

    CANDIDATE : Renton

    PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. David L. – M. Renton, a doctor’s son, was born at Dartford in 1908 and educated at Oundle and University College, Oxford, where he was president of the Liberal Club in 1930. He was called to the Bar in 1933, has practised in London and on the So?th-East Circuit, and was elected to the Bar Council in 1939. Commissioned in the Territorial Army in 1938, he served with the Royal Artillery in the Middle East, becoming a major in 1943. Later he was president of the British Military Court in Tripolitania. He was elected National Liberal M.P. for Huntingdonshire in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Faversham Constituency – Biography of Wells

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Faversham Constituency – Biography of Wells

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Faversham

    CANDIDATE : Wells

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Percy Wells won the seat in the 1945 election. Aged 58, he left the Navy when 19 to visit America and the Empire, but returned to England in 1913 and became a supporter of the I.L.P., an organizer of the Workers’ Union, and a shop steward. Later he acted as agent for the Labour Party in the division. He has filled many offices in local government in Kent and served on the Central Agricultural Wages Board.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Orpington Constituency – Biography of Vaughan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Orpington Constituency – Biography of Vaughan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Orpington

    CANDIDATE : Vaughan

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. H. C. Vaughan, educated at Manchester University and Cambridge served with the forces during the war and was called to the Bar in 1946. An examiner for London University, he is a lecturer on legal subjects for the London County Council and the Kent Education Committee, and was resident lecturer at the National Adult School Union’s summer school in 1948. He is a member of the Friends’ Penal Reform Commission.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Darwen Constituency – Biography of Haines

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Darwen Constituency – Biography of Haines

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Darwen

    CANDIDATE : Haines

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Haines, a 39-year-old Manchester journalist, contested Darwen in 1945. During the war he had a special assignment with the political intelligence division of the Foreign Office in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and was demobilized with the rank of major.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lancaster Constituency – Biography of Rogerson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lancaster Constituency – Biography of Rogerson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lancaster

    CANDIDATE : Rogerson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Rogerson, a native of Lancaster and, at the age of 47, export manager of a firm of linoleum manufacturers, has travelled widely in Europe and America. When he won a seat on Lancaster City Council he was one of three Liberals in a council of 32. He is president of the Lancaster division Liberal Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : South Fylde Constituency – Biography of Gouldbourn

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : South Fylde Constituency – Biography of Gouldbourn

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : South Fylde

    CANDIDATE : Gouldbourn

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. E. Gouldbourn, shoe and slipper manufacturer, is a former Territorial who ended his service in the war as a colonel on the staff of the 11th Army Group. Born in 1915 and educated at Heaton Moor College, Cheshire, he was for many years on the management staff of a Leicester shoe manufacturing company.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Melton Constituency – Biography of Kirby

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Melton Constituency – Biography of Kirby

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Melton

    CANDIDATE : Kirby

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. H. Kirby stood in 1945 for Har-borough. For many years head of a motor transport company in the county, he is now retired but has interests in a local firm of agricultural merchants. He is 58.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Horncastle Constituency – Biography of Maitland

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Horncastle Constituency – Biography of Maitland

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Horncastle

    CANDIDATE : Maitland

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Cmdr. J. F. W. Maitland, member for the division since 1945, served in the Royal Navy until 1934, when he was retired after injuries. He rejoined the Navy in 1939 and was a gunnery officer on the submarine staff. He has actiyely engaged in local life in Essex, for which he has been deputy lieutenant, and was also a verderer of Epping Forest, and in Parliament was chairman of the Conservative sub-committee on education. He was born in London in 1903.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : King’s Lynn Constituency – Biography of Winch

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : King’s Lynn Constituency – Biography of Winch

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : King’s Lynn

    CANDIDATE : Winch

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. A. Winch, a 24-year-old graduate of Christ’s College, Cambridge, is the son of a Sheffield manufacturer, and is engaged on post-graduate work in anthropology. He served with Army Intelligence in the Far East and the Middle East during the war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kettering Constituency – Biography of O’Connor

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kettering Constituency – Biography of O’Connor

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kettering

    CANDIDATE : O’Connor

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. P. O’Connor, aged 33, a Southern Irishman who has been in Britain since 1932, served in the R.A.F. in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. He lives at Corby, near Kettering, and was a member of the executive committee of the Luton Trades Council, and is a former chairman of the Corby branch of the Constructional Workers’ Society. He is a member of the National Union of Railwaymen.

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