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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Brightside Constituency – Biography of Hill

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Brightside Constituency – Biography of Hill

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Brightside

    CANDIDATE : Hill

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Hill, an electrician, aged 36, was elected to Sheffield City Council as a Socialist, served for eight years, and was then expelled from the Labour Party for his association with Communists. He served for two years in the R.A.F. and was invalided out. He is full-time secretary of Sheffield Communist Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Smethwick Constituency – Biography of Fallon

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Smethwick Constituency – Biography of Fallon

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Smethwick

    CANDIDATE : Fallon

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Fallon, aged 61, is a prominent Smethwick industrialist with a knowledge of the metallurgical industries in many countries. He is a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He has carried out metallurgical engineering work in America and Europe, and served on a number of Government committees during the war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southend West Constituency – Biography of Scott

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southend West Constituency – Biography of Scott

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southend West

    CANDIDATE : Scott

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. H. M. Scott, a member of the Liberal ” Shadow Cabinet,” is a son of the Mr. MacCullum Scott who sat in Parliament for many years as an M.P. for Glasgow. During the war he served on General Montgomery’s invasion staff. He has travelled widely and given much time to the foundation of the Liberal International.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stockport South Constituency – Biography of Hewitt

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stockport South Constituency – Biography of Hewitt

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stockport South

    CANDIDATE : Hewitt

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Hewitt, one time assistant to Mr. J. R. Clynes, M.P., and organizer of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, was labour manager and later industrial relations officer at a big chemical works. In 1948 he represented the British Chemical industry at the first meeting of the Chemical Industries Committee in Paris. A lecturer and writer, he was a member of the Government committee on industrial diseases last year.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sunderland North Constituency – Biography of Hurst

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sunderland North Constituency – Biography of Hurst

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sunderland North

    CANDIDATE : Hurst

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Hurst, aged 31, is a native of Prest-wich, Lancashire, and was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University. He is a research mechanical engineer with a Tyneside firm and chairman of the Northern Area Young Liberals.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tottenham Constituency – Biography of Allen

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tottenham Constituency – Biography of Allen

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tottenham

    CANDIDATE : Allen

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Allen is the son of a New Zealand doctor, and was educated at Epsom College and St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he took an honours degree in history. He was resident assistant at the boys’ club in Bermond-sey, and on the staff of the Islington medical mission before the war, and is now engaged in adult teaching at Oak Hill College, Southgate. He served in The Suffolk Regiment and was commissioned.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wallsend Constituency – Biography of Craggs

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wallsend Constituency – Biography of Craggs

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wallsend

    CANDIDATE : Craggs

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. W. Craggs, born in 1886, has lived for half a century in the division, where he has been a well-known social worker and keen industrialist. He is vice-president of the Northern Liberal Federation and chairman of Newcastle Liberal Club. He is chairman and managing director of a firm of paint manufacturers, and a member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Watford Constituency – Biography of Bush

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Watford Constituency – Biography of Bush

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Watford

    CANDIDATE : Bush

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. B. Bush is the joint managing director of a firm of manufacturing chemists. Born in 1896 he was educated at Highgate High School and has been a parish councillor for four years. In the first world war he served as a lieutenant with the Army, and was in A.R.P. and the Home Guard in the last war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Ham North Constituency – Biography of Dickinson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Ham North Constituency – Biography of Dickinson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : West Ham North

    CANDIDATE : Dickinson

    PARTY : Christian Democrat

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss G. W. Dickinson, a teacher, formerly lived at Forest Gate. She early qualified in science and mathematics, and became head mistress of a Newcastle training college. After working in a Government department under Sir William (now Lord) Beveridge on the wages question, she returned to Oxford to study economics and philosophy.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wimbledon Constituency – Biography of Black

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wimbledon Constituency – Biography of Black

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wimbledon

    CANDIDATE : Black

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. W. Black was born in 1902, and was educated at King’s College, Wimbledon. A chartered surveyor, he is chairman of the Temperance Permanent Building Society and associated with other companies. Serving on Wimbledon Borough Council since 1942, he was mayor in 1945-47, and became an alderman in 1949. He also sits for Wimbledon West on the Surrey County Council.

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