CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eastbourne
CANDIDATE : Groves
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. Groves is an author, journalist, and lecturer, aged 41, who lectures for Labour colleges and the W.E.A. He contested Ayles-bury in 1938 and 1945, and has been a member of the Labour Party for 25 years.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Horsham
CANDIDATE : Marchant
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Miss E. M. Marchant was born at Mansfield, Notts, in 1888, and was educated at Mansfield and Royal Holloway College. After teaching at Westcliff-on-Sea, Darlington, and Mansfield, she was head mistress of Horsham High School for Girls for 28 years, retiring last year.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Warwick and Leamington
CANDIDATE : Bithell
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. Bithell was born in 1909, and is a native of Wrexham, north Wales. He is an accountant by profession and has been a member of Tamworth Borough Council since 1946. For 20 years he has been a Baptist lay preacher, and is a member of the Baptist Men’s Movement National Executive Council. A member of the Clerical and Administrative Workers’ Union, he has been a lecturer at the National Council of Labour Colleges.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Westbury
CANDIDATE : Travess
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. J. Travess, who contested Exeter in 1945, has been a railway engine driver and an active member of the National Union of Rail-waymen, being twice elected to the executive. Took part in international transport conferences in Germany, Northern Ireland, and Eire. He is 49.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cleveland
CANDIDATE : Willey
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. O. G. Willey, M.P. for Cleveland since 1945, had previously engaged unsuccessfully in five election contests, two at Skipton and three in Birmingham, where he was once defeated by the late Sir A. Chamberlain by only 43 votes. Born in London 64 years ago, he has been a lecturer in history and social economics during the greater part of his life, and his first association with this district was as deputy commissioner for defence for the North-East Region.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Colne Valley
CANDIDATE : Leslie
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. F. Leslie, 27, and a former chairman of the Liberal Society of Manchester University, served for six years in the Royal Air Force. He has been a member of the North-West Liberal Federation Executive. After the war he entered Manchester University where he took a first-class honours degree in English.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Penistone
CANDIDATE : Smith
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. F. Smith was born in 1920 and educated at Giggleswick School and in Sweden, where he studied the manufacture of steel, and is a steel wire manufacturer. During the war he served abroad in the Army and attained the rank of captain. He is a member of the National Insurance Appeal Tribunal and the Yorkshire executive of the Liberal Party.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aberdare
CANDIDATE : Hinton
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. ?. E. Hinton is managing director of a firm manufacturing combustion stoves. He was born in 1901 and held posts in shipping in India and Burma from 1922 to 1930. Serving with the Royal Engineers, 1939-46, he held a staff appointment at Southern Command H.Q. He was elected to Watford Borough Council in 1946.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newport
CANDIDATE : Owen
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. J. Owen, a Cardiff barrister, was born in 1922 and educated at Swansea Technical College and University College Law School. While there during the war, he volunteered for air crew duty and served in the R.A.F. for five years, becoming a flight lieutenant. On his release in 1946 he resumed legal studies at Lincoln’s Inn and is in practice in Cardiff.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Breconshire and Radnorshire
CANDIDATE : Gibson-Watt
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Maj. J. D. Gibson-Watt, is 34 and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He is farming in Radnorshire and is a member of the Welsh Land Settlement Society and the Radnorshire County Council. He served with the Welsh Guards in North Africa in the war, and won the Military Cross and two bars. He finished the war as instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He is fifth in descent from James Watt, inventor of the steam engine.
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