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 : Bexley

CANDIDATE : Bramall

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Bramall was elected for Bexley in a by-election in July, 1946, with a majority of 1,851. Bora in 1916, he is a barrister, having been called to the Bar last year. He is a former member of Twickenham Borough Council. Enlisting in the Army as a trooper, he reached the rank of major. In 1938 he was treasurer of the Oxford Union.

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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 : Birmingham Edgbaston

CANDIDATE : Hobson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Hobson, a Birmingham man born in 1899, won a foundation scholarship at King Edward’s Grammar School, Birmingham, at the age of 10. After employment in an export merchant’s office and service in the first war, he was for 20 years chief clerk in a manufacturing concern. Last year he was appointed a lecturer in health education in the schools by Birmingham Health Department.

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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 : Birmingham Perry Barr

CANDIDATE : Poole

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Cecil Poole represented the old Lichfield division from 1938 to 1945. A native of Wellington, Salop, he is aged 48. He was a member of Walsall Borough Council from 1931 to 1938. He began work at the age of 16 with the L.M.S. Railway in South Wales, and later served in Westmorland and the Midlands. During the second world war he served in the Royal Engineers, reaching the rank of major.

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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 : Blackburn East

CANDIDATE : Leavey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Leavey, 35, is a director of a weaving and spinning concern in Colne, and managing director of another business at j^elson. During the war he served with the tnmskilling Dragoons in France and Belgium oetore the retreat and returned to France with l«em soon after D Day. He held the rank of major on demobilization. He is chairman of uie Gisburn branch of the Skipton Conservative Association.

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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 : Bolton West

CANDIDATE : Tillotson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. L. Tillotson, aged 30, is the youngest son of Mr. F. L. Tillotson, chairman of Tillotsons Newspapers, Limited, Bolton. He was educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford. Joining the Army in 1939 he served in France and took part in the Dunkirk evacuation. Later commissioned in the R.A.S.C., he served mostly with armoured aivjsions and was eventually on headquarters staff of 30th Corps. On demobilization he Joined the family firm.

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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 : Bradford East

CANDIDATE : Green

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Green, a miner, born in Bradford in 1907, was at one time a member of the Yorkshire divisional council of the Labour Party. He was active in hunger marches of the unemployed in the ’30s, and in the great Yorkshire woollen strike. Later, he joined the Communists and is their Yorkshire district organizer.

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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 : Brighton Pavilion

CANDIDATE : Teeling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Teeling, aged 47, has been one of Brighton’s two representatives in Parliament since 1944, when he won a by-election. He has interested himself in foreign affairs, and has travelled extensively in Australia, New Zealand, China, and Japan. He studied unemployment in America, Canada, and Europe, and in 1933 he led a deputation of British unemployed to Rome, where they were received by the Pope. During the war he was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F.

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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 : Bristol South East

CANDIDATE : Simms

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. E. Simms, aged 35, was early in life a prominent figure in the Young Conservative movement in London, where he worked in Fleet Street. In the last war he served in India and Burma, attaining the rank of captain. He is a keen Church worker.

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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 : Cambridge

CANDIDATE : Kerr

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Hamilton Kerr was member for Oldham in the 1931-45 Parliaments, and served as Under-Secretary for Air, 1942-45, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the “caretaker” Government. Born in 1903 and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he worked as a journalist in Fleet Street for three years before entering Parliament. He delegate to The Hague Conference in 1949.

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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 : Coventry East

CANDIDATE : Alexander

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Alexander, born in 1910, is an organizer for the Communist Party and a member of the national executive council. He fought for two years with the International Brigade in Spain, commanding a British battalion for nearly a year. In the last war he served for five years in the Royal Armoured Corps in North Africa, Italy and Germany, holding the rank of captain.

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