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 : Bridgwater

CANDIDATE : Carr

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. E. Carr, aged 37, and an audit clerk, was educated at London University. He served with the R.A.F. in the war. He is hon. secretary of the Billericay (Essex) divisional Labour Party and chairman of the Billericay divisional Co-operative Party, and in 1949 was chairman of the London Joint Co-operative 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 : Yeovil

CANDIDATE : MacLaren

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. MacLaren is a son of Mr. Andrew MacLaren, who for more than 20 years sat in Parliament for the Burslem division. Born in 1910, he was called to the Bar in 1938, and became principal of the School of Economic Science, London. He resigned from the Labour Party after the Blackpool conference in 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 : Bury St Edmunds

CANDIDATE : McCall

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss C. McCall is 49 and the daughter of the late Sir Robert McCall, K..C. First woman in Britain trained as a psychiatric social worker, she holds hospital appointments. She has worked in prisons and Borstal institutions, and wrote a book on women’s prisons. Miss McCall has also been educational organizer to the National Federation of Women’s Institutes. She fought the seat in 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 : Chertsey

CANDIDATE : Gordon

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Gordon is a solicitor whose special interests are in local government, Rent Restriction Acts, and industrial law. He was elected a member of Kingston Borough Council in 1937 and was leader in 1946. He is a member of the Fabian Society and solicitor to the southern district of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers. Born in 1915, he was educated at London University.

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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 : Farnham

CANDIDATE : Shannon

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. P. Shannon was educated at the City of London School and in Australia, joining the Australian Army in 1914 and serving in Gallipoli and France. He was badly wounded in 1918, and later returned to Australia as a sheep farmer. Back in England in 1934 he became an official of the Ministry of Labour. For a time he edited an international youth newspaper printed in seven languages. Serving in the last war, he was invalided out in 1941, became labour manager for a radio firm, and deputy chief for civil defence in the North-West Region. He was elected to Blackburn Borough Council in 1945, resigning to join the Ministry of Labour staff in London.

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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 : Lewes

CANDIDATE : Beamish

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. Tufton Beamish, who was born in 1917, succeeded his father, Rear-Adm. T. P. H. Beamish, in 1945, as M.P. for Lewes. Educated at Stowe he was commissioned in 1936 and served in Palestine 1938-39. He was a company commander and won the M.C. at Dunkirk, and was at Singapore when it fell to the Japanese, .escaping with others in a small boat to Sumatra. After serving on Gen. Slim’s staff in India, he returned to his former unit in 1943 in North Africa. He also fought in Italy 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 : Rugby

CANDIDATE : Dance

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Dance, born in 1907, was educated at Eton. He has business interests in London and Birmingham and used to farm 500 acres in Warwickshire. He was chairman of the Rugby Conservative Association and has also been chairman of the Kineton branch of the British Legion. During the war he served with the 2nd (Queen’s Bays) Dragoon Guards (attaining the rank of major), in France, the Middle East, and Italy, and also made a lecture tour of factories engaged in tank production.

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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 : Isle of Wight

CANDIDATE : Conbeer

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. G. Conbeer, mathematics master at Ryde (I. of W.) Secondary Modern School, is vice-chairman of the Isle of Wight Labour Party. He went to Exeter University, where he joined the University Labour Party. He helped to form the Ladywood (Birmingham) Labour Youth Group, and has lectured on international questions. He lives in a house called “The Seven Freedoms” in the island.

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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 : Kidderminster

CANDIDATE : Nabarro

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Nabarro, who was born in 1913, enlisted in the Regular Army as a private at the age of 15. He rose from the ranks and was eventually commissioned in the Royal Artillery (T.A.). After leaving the Army he entered industry as a machine hand, and became a factory manager in London and later on Merseyside. He is managing director of two engineering companies in the Midlands.

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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 : Richmond (Yorkshire)

CANDIDATE : Beaton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. W. Beaton, a Leeds barrister, aged 57, was educated at Leeds University and Oriel College, Oxford. Formerly deputy chairman of a court of referees under the Unemployment Insurance Act, and for many years a tutor for the Workers’ Educational Association, he has been a member of the Labour Party for 26 years. His special interests include the application of science to agriculture and industrial production.

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