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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Louth (Borough) Constituency – Biography of Osborne

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Louth (Borough) Constituency – Biography of Osborne

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Louth (Borough)

    CANDIDATE : Osborne

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Osborne, born in 1898, is a Leicestershire industrialist and chairman of a number of companies interested in the textile industry and in the grocery trade. He is an official of the ancient guild of Frame Knit Workers. He was elected to Parliament in 1945. Educated at University College, Oxford, he served with the Royal Artillery in France, Italy and Egypt in the 1914-18 war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk North Constituency – Biography of Reid

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk North Constituency – Biography of Reid

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norfolk North

    CANDIDATE : Reid

    PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. M. Reid held a commission in the Royal Flying Corps during the 1914-18 war and was twice wounded in France, where he gained the M.C. Going back to Cambridge after the war he became president of the Union. Later he took a business appointment in India and was for six years a member of the Madras Legislative Assembly. During the war he served with Indian regiments.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Peterborough Constituency – Biography of Tiffany

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Peterborough Constituency – Biography of Tiffany

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Peterborough

    CANDIDATE : Tiffany

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. Tiffany, born in 1908, went to Leeds Modern School and Technical College, and trained as an electrical engineer. He was a director of Leeds Co-operative Society and served in a similar capacity at Peterborough. He is interested in agricultural and food problems. He has been a member of a number of Parliamentary delegations to European countries.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bassetlaw Constituency – Biography of Irving

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bassetlaw Constituency – Biography of Irving

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bassetlaw

    CANDIDATE : Irving

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Cmdr. J. J. G. Irving is a naval gunnery expert, Antarctic explorer, public speaker, and author. He served in the Royal Navy in both wars, and then until nationalization of the industry was public relations officer to the South Yorkshire coalowners. Since then he has written a survey of British industrial relations and has been principal lecturer to the British police force.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rushcliffe Constituency – Biography of Stallabrass

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rushcliffe Constituency – Biography of Stallabrass

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rushcliffe

    CANDIDATE : Stallabrass

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. E. Stallabrass, the wife of a farmer near Sheffield, is 28 and has two children. After studying at Leicester Domestic Science College she taught in Coventry for a year, and now teaches domestic science at Eckington Grammar School, Derbyshire.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bridgwater Constituency – Biography of Wills

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bridgwater Constituency – Biography of Wills

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bridgwater

    CANDIDATE : Wills

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Gerald Wills, a member of Lloyd’s, contested the division unsuccessfully in 1945. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was afterwards called to the Bar. He?served in the Territorials and with the Royal Artillery, and later became Deputy Assistant Adjutant – General at Southern Command headquarters.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Yeovil Constituency – Biography of Shinwell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Yeovil Constituency – Biography of Shinwell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Yeovil

    CANDIDATE : Shinwell

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. M. Shinwell, a brother of Mr. E. Shinwell, Secretary of State for War, unsuccessfully contested North Ayr and Bute in 1935. A journalist, he has had a long association with trade union organizations in Scotland and is national organizer for the Society of Civil Servants.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bury St Edmunds Constituency – Biography of Aitken

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bury St Edmunds Constituency – Biography of Aitken

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bury St Edmunds

    CANDIDATE : Aitken

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. T. Aitken, a nephew of Lord Beaverbrook, was born in Canada in 1905, and is general manager of an Empire news service and a director of other companies. A fighter pilot during the war, he crashed and spent two years in hospital with 19 major operations. He fought West Derbyshire in 1945, losing by 156 votes.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chertsey Constituency – Biography of Heald

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chertsey Constituency – Biography of Heald

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chertsey

    CANDIDATE : Heald

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. F. Heald, K.C., born in 1897, was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, and served in the first world war. He was called to the Bar in 1923 and specialized in technical cases and in the law of compulsory purchase. In the last war he joined the R.A.F.V.R. and was appointed to the Air Staff in 1940. He became air commodore in 1944 on appointment to General Eisenhower’s staff at Supreme Headquarters.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Farnham Constituency – Biography of Neate

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Farnham Constituency – Biography of Neate

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Farnham

    CANDIDATE : Neate

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. C. Neate, who was born in 1905, is a graduate of London University and a director of an electrical engineering firm specializing in overhead ” grid ” construction. Since 1945 he has been a member of Winchester City Council, and is the leader of the Labour group. He has studied industrial management and is also interested in health and housing problems.

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