Tag: 1950 General Election

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bosworth

CANDIDATE : Cripps

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. A. Cripps, a nephew of Sir Stafford Cripps, is 38, and a barrister at the common law Bar, specializing in agricultural law. He manages his own small estate two miles from Coalville. He was a company commander in the Leicestershire Territorials in the war, served in the Norway expedition and in North Africa and Italy, and was awarded the Territorial Decoration.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Grantham

CANDIDATE : Kendall

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. D. Kendall, chartered engineer, was chairman and managing director during the war of British Manufacturing and Research Co., makers of high-speed cannon for ground and aircraft; and subsequently managing director of a Grantham company which sponsored the ” people’s car ” project. He is a freeman of the City of London and Chevalier of l’Ordre du Ouissam Alouite Cherifien. He has represented Grantham since 1942. He was born at Halifax in 1903, and studied engineering at a United States university.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Spelthorne

CANDIDATE : Craddock

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. B. Craddock, who was born in Dundee, is a barrister aged 51. Graduating at St. Andrew’s University, he spent 17 years in industry and commerce before entering the legal profession, and has held administrative posts at home and in India and Africa. Serving with the artillery in the 1914-18 war, he was later on the Chemical Warfare Staff. During the last war he was Assistant Director at the Ministry of Supply. He is secretary of the Conservative Candidates’ Association, and has served on many Government committees concerning colonial affairs.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norfolk South

CANDIDATE : Bryant

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Q. Bryant, aged 52, and a garage proprietor, comes of an old East Anglian farming family. He started his business career in London, and went to Diss, Norfolk, two years ago. He lost a leg in the first world war fighting with the Norfolk Regiment, but he served again in the last war in the R.A.F. Flying Control Section.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Northamptonshire South

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Evans, a patent agent, is 41 and was educated at Mill Hill and Clare College, Cambridge. He takes an active part in the work of t?e Society of Friends, and served as chief engineer with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit in China and Burma in the war, and saw the great famine in Bengal.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carlton

CANDIDATE : Pickthorn

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn, who was born in 1892, was elected for Cambridge University at a by-election in 1935 and was returned in 1945. Educated at Aldenham and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained firsts in the History Tripos, he is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and a lecturer in history. During the 1914-18 war he served in the London Regiment and the R.A.F. in France and Macedonia. He was vice-chairman of the Conservative Party foreign affairs committee, and the author of several historical works.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Henley

CANDIDATE : Hay

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Hay is a solicitor practising in Brighton and London. Born in 1919 and educated at Brighton Grammar School, he has been an office holder in the Junior Imperial League and the Young Conservatives, and was the national chairman of that body from 1947 to 1949. During the war he was lieutenant in the R.N.V.R., receiving promotion after 10 months’ service.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Somerset North

CANDIDATE : Field

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Xenia Field, a journalist and playwright, was born in 1894, and educated at Ascot and in Paris. She studied economics, was a member of the L.C.C. from 1946 to last year, and is a member of the London executive council under the National Health Scheme. During the war she served at the Ministry of Supply, and has served on a Home Office advisory committee on the treatment of offenders.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brierley Hill

CANDIDATE : Hanley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. P. Hanley, aged 33, is the first Liberal candidate in the area for over 20 years. He is a sheet-metal worker employed in a motor-car factory. He served five years in the R.A.F.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eye

CANDIDATE : Harrison

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. J. H. Harrison was born in 1907 and has been connected with local and national politics for 20 years. He is associated with an Ipswich publishing firm, and has been a member of the town council. During the war he commanded a battalion of The Suffolk Regiment and was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html