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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : York Constituency – Biography of Davies

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : York Constituency – Biography of Davies

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : York

    CANDIDATE : Davies

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Haydn Davies, who sat for the old S.W. St. Pancras seat, was the M.P. wh6 moved the motion to set up the Royal Commission on the Press. Aged 44, he is an honours:, graduate in English of the University of Wales, and studied under Mr. Hugh Dalton at the: London School of Economics. After a period! as an English teacher in London, he turned to journalism, and is an industrial correspondent.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newbury Constituency – Biography of Hurd

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newbury Constituency – Biography of Hurd

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newbury

    CANDIDATE : Hurd

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Anthony Hurd, son of Sir Percy Hurd, M.P. for Devizes 1924-45, was elected for Newbury in 1945. Born in 1901, he was educated at Marl-borough and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and has farmed in Wiltshire for 20 years, as well as writing on agricultural subjects. He has travelled extensively investigating agriculture in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, South Africa, the United States, and Canada, and has broadcast farming talks for the B.B.C. From 1939 to 1945 he was an assistant agricultural adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture, and is a member of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Buckinghamshire South Constituency – Biography of Dee

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Buckinghamshire South Constituency – Biography of Dee

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Buckinghamshire South

    CANDIDATE : Dee

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Dee, born in 1904, is a draughtsman and was president of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen in 1947-48. He held office in the Balham and Tooting Labour Party from 1924 to 1931, and since 1947 has been a member of the executive of the Southern Regional Council of the Labour Party. He is commercial manager of an engineering firm in north-west London, and in 1947 was appointed to the Council of Industrial Design.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Crewe Constituency – Biography of Turner

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Crewe Constituency – Biography of Turner

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Crewe

    CANDIDATE : Turner

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Dr. J. R. T. Turner, in practice in Nant-wich, was educated at Shrewsbury, Cambridge, and St. George’s Hospital, London. He was chairman of the Nantwich branch of the Conservative Party from 1945 to 1947 and has served on the Nantwich U.D.C.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stalybridge and Hyde Constituency – Biography of Herrick

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stalybridge and Hyde Constituency – Biography of Herrick

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stalybridge and Hyde

    CANDIDATE : Herrick

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. P. Herrick was born in Birmingham 50 years ago and went to work in a Hyde cotton mill at the age of 13. After long unemployment he became a miner and is now in the engineering industry. He served in the R.A.F. in a glider training unit during the war. Formerly in the Labour Party, he failed by seven votes to secure election to the local town council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Truro Constituency – Biography of Wilson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Truro Constituency – Biography of Wilson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Truro

    CANDIDATE : Wilson

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Wilson was born in 1903 and was educated at Clifton and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took an honours degree in history. A solicitor, he was senior assistant in the parliamentary and general section of the Great Western Railway, but resigned a few years ago because of his attitude towards nationalization. He was formerly connected with the West Islington Young Conservatives, and in 1945 formed a branch at Marlow.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : High Peak Constituency – Biography of Molson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : High Peak Constituency – Biography of Molson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : High Peak

    CANDIDATE : Molson

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Hugh Molson was M.P. for Doncaster from 1931 to 1935 and for the High Peak from 1939. Born in 1903 he was educated at Osborne and Dartmouth naval colleges, and at Oxford, where he gained first-class honours in jurisprudence; he was president of the Union in 1925. He is a barrister, and during the war was a staff captain in the Anti-Aircraft forces.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Honiton Constituency – Biography of Barrington

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Honiton Constituency – Biography of Barrington

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Honiton

    CANDIDATE : Barrington

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Brig. Guy Barrington is 45 years of age, and entered the Army through Sandhurst. Much of his service in the last war was in India and Burma, and he finished up as Brigadier in charge of administration on the staff of Field-Marshal Sir William Slim. Retiring in 1946, he took up farming at Hawkchurch in Devon.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Totnes Constituency – Biography of Tapscott

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Totnes Constituency – Biography of Tapscott

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Totnes

    CANDIDATE : Tapscott

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Tapscott has for 25 years been a militant trade unionist. He is a former president of the Plymouth and District Trades Council and he served on the central committee of the Plymouth Trades Council during the 1926 strike. Between the wars he was active in the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement, and as secretary of the S willy and North Prospect Tenants’ Association he recently organized opposition to local increases in the rents of council houses.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chester-le-Street Constituency – Biography of Millican

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chester-le-Street Constituency – Biography of Millican

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chester-le-Street

    CANDIDATE : Millican

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. J. M. Millican is 32, and head of a Newcastle firm of glass and paint manufacturers. Educated at Loretto School, Edinburgh, he entered the family business, and is chairman of the North-Eastern Glass Manufacturers’ Association. During the war he served in the Royal Artillery and rose to the rank of major. He is a leading Rugby player, captained the Northern team, and is secretary.

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