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 : Liverpool Edge Hill

CANDIDATE : Irvine

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. J. Irvine first contested Kincardine as a Liberal, and in 1943 joined the Labour Party, fighting Twickenham and later South Aberdeen without success. In 1945 he succeeded at Edge Hill. An M.A. of Edinburgh, he also took an Oxford degree and was president of the Union. He is son of the late Mr. J. M. Irvine, K.C.

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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 : Liverpool Toxteth

CANDIDATE : Gibbins

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Gibbins first contested the West Toxteth division in 1922 and in the course of 13 years fought eight elections. He was M.P. for that division from 1924 until 1931, when he was defeated, but recaptured the seat in 1935. He was born in 1888, served his apprenticeship as a boiler maker, and served in the Navy during the 1914-18 war.

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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 : Manchester Blackley

CANDIDATE : Jamieson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Jamieson, born in 1907, was apprenticed to a family printing business, and after studying at Manchester School of Technology succeeded his father as managing director of the business. When only 16 he was assistant secretary of the Stretford Junior Imperial League and later held other offices. He is a member of Chapel-en-le-Frith Rural District Council.

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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 : Manchester Moss Side

CANDIDATE : Horsbrugh

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss F. Horsbrugh represented Dundee in Parliament for 14 years and was unseated in 1945. Educated at Lans-downe House, Edinburgh, and St. Hilda’s, Folkestone, she represented Britain on the League of Nations from 1933 to 1936. In 1938 she created Parliamentary history by being the first woman to move the Address in reply to the King’s Speech. Appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in 1939, she occupied that position until the end of the Coalition Government. In the ” caretaker ” Government she was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food. After her defeat at Midlothian and Peebles in this Election she was adopted for Moss Side.

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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 : Middlesbrough West

CANDIDATE : Cooper

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Geoffrey Cooper is in business as an adviser on reorganization and development. Born in 1907, he went to grammar schools at Leicester and Worcester, and afterwards studied accountancy and business management. Before the war he was engaged in civil flying, and during the war was a wing commander in Fighter and Coastal Commands.

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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 : Newcastle upon Tyne North

CANDIDATE : Headlam

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Cuthbert Headlam was elected for this division in 1940, and previously sat for Barnard Castle, 1924-29 and 1931-35. He was at various times Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, to the Minister of Pensions, and to the Minister of Transport. He was born in 1876, and was adopted for North Newcastle at a meeting of the local association, which reversed a decision of the executive council that he should not be nominated because of age. He went to King’s School, Canterbury, and Magdalen College, Oxford, and has been a member of Durham County Council.

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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 : Nottingham Central

CANDIDATE : Glyn-Barton

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. M. Glyn-Barton, aged 24, is articled to his father, a London solicitor. ?hile at Brasenose College, Oxford, he founded the Oxford University Centre Society, a Liberal organization, and helped to found the University United Europe movement, but subsequently left it because of a difference on policy.

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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 : Oldham East

CANDIDATE : Kirkman

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss W. Kirkman is 52 and is a teacher. She was elected to the Oldham Town Council two years ago. She is also a trained soprano singer. She is a past president of the Oldham branch of the National Union of Women Teachers, chairman of the Oldham Liberal Association, and a past president of the Oldham Business and Professional Women’s Club.

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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 : Pontefract

CANDIDATE : Grant

PARTY : L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Grant, a teacher in the Upton Modern School, near Pontefract, started his career as an engineering apprentice in the Navy. He was wounded aboard H.M.S. Suffolk in the Norweg an campaign, and later joined H.M.S. Heckler, which was sunk in the North African landings in 1942. After the war he was for a time a sales engineer in Malaya.

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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 : Preston South

CANDIDATE : Shackleton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. A. Shackle-ton, son of the famous explorer, and himself the organizer and surveyor of the Oxford University expedition to Ellesmere Land in 1934-35, entered Parliament in 1946, at a by-election, and became Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Supply. Born in 1911 and educated at Radley and Magdalen College, Oxford, he was a wing commander in the R.A.F. intelligence service in the war. He has given special attention to industrial organization in the cotton industry.

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