Tag: 1950 General Election

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bolton East

CANDIDATE : Holt

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. F. Holt, a native of Bolton, was born in 1914, educated at Mill Hill School and Manchester Technical College. With his two brothers he has built up in Bolton an industry new to the town. A territorial in 1939, he later became a company commander and was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bradford East

CANDIDATE : McLeavy

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. McLeavy was elected for East Bradford in 1945. He is 51, and was formerly a road transport inspector in Birkenhead. A member of the T. and G.W.U. for many years, he was the first Labour mayor of Bebington, where he lives. He is also a county alderman of Cheshire. He was a member of Party delegations to China in 1947 and Norway in 1949.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brighton Kemptown

CANDIDATE : Johnson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. S. Johnson is 38, and a solicitor. A pre-war Territorial, he served in Africa in the war and was invalided out as a major. He was a member of Brighton Town Council from 1945 until last May, when he retired. Educated at Brighton and Highgate, he has spent most of his life in the town. He is also a director of 14 land and estate development companies

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol South

CANDIDATE : Maydon

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Cmdr. S. C. L. Maydon is 36 and was born in South Africa and educated at the Dartmouth Royal Naval College. After 21 years’ service in the Navy he was appointed to the Royal Naval Staff College. He holds the D.S.O. (and bar) and D.S.C., and lives at Wraxall, near Bristol.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bury and Radcliffe

CANDIDATE : Fletcher

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr.Walter Fletcher, aged 57, who first entered Parliament in 1945, is an expert on rubber and Far Eastern affairs, being chairman and managing director of a firm of rubber merchants, and past chairman of the Rubber Trade Association. He was reputed to be the heaviest man in the last House of Commons, turning the scale at 19 stone. He has a farm in Hertfordshire, and, as an artist, has exhibited at the Royal Academy. For special service in the Far East in 1939-46 he was made a C.B.E.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Coventry East

CANDIDATE : Crossman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. S. Crossman who failed in the West Birmingham by-election in 1937, was born in 1907, and educated at Winchester and Oxford. He turned to lecturing in preference to following his father, a High Court Judge, into the legal profession. He organized psychological warfare against Germany and was one of the B.B.C.’s leading speakers in German. A member of General Eisenhower’s Anglo-American propaganda team in North Africa, he later joined Shaef in a similar capacity. He has been assistant editor of the New Statesman and Nation since 1945. He entered Parliament in 1945.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Croydon North

CANDIDATE : Harris

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. W. Harris won North Croydon at a by-election in March, 1948, when he defeated Mr. Harold Nicolson, increasing the Conservative majority from 607 to 11,664. Thirty-five years old, he is managing director of a food products firm. He owns a ‘arm in Kenya, and a number of racehorses, one of which won the weat Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom two years ago. He has been a member of Croydon Borough Council.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dartford

CANDIDATE : Giles

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. H. Giles, a research engineer, was born in 1915 and educated at Winkfield County School, Berkshire. He served with The Rifle Brigade during the war, and was wounded at El Alamein. As a branch official of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, he is a delegate to Holborn Trades Council. He lives at Kenley, Surrey.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dudley

CANDIDATE : Farran

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. R. A. Farran was born in India in 1921 and educated there and at Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the 3rd Hussars, and in an adventurous service career gained many decorations including the American Legion of Merit and the Croix de Guerre. In 1948 he went to Southern Rhodesia, where he is a director of several companies, returning in October last after offering to contest Dudley for the Conservatives.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

---

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eccles

CANDIDATE : Proctor

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. T. Proctor won the seat from the Conservatives in 1945. In 1948 he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Creech Jones, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Formerly a railway worker, Mr. Proctor is a former branch secretary of the National Union of Rail-waymen, and was once its representative on the International Transport Federation. He was born in 1896.

---

SOURCE : https://andy.egge.rs/data.html