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 : Louth (Borough)

CANDIDATE : Cox

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. W. Cox, an alderman and former mayor of Cleethorpes (now included in the division), is also a member of the Lindsey County Council. He served 13 years in the forces, first with The Lincolnshire Regiment and later with the Indian Army.

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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 : Norfolk South

CANDIDATE : Baker

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Baker, born in 1921, served with airborne formations in Europe and Af?ica during the war. While working with the resistance movement in Holland he was taken prisoner, and though he twice escaped he was recaptured on both occasions. An author, he is also the director of a number of publishing companies, and is interested in agriculture and stock breeding.

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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 : Northamptonshire South

CANDIDATE : Manningham-Buller

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. E. Manningham-Buller, K.C., was M.P. for Daventry from 1943 to 1950. Son of a former member for Kettering and Northampton, he was born in 1905 jg and went to Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was admitted to Inner Temple in 1927, practised on the Midland Circuit, and became a K.C. in 1948. He served in the Judge Advocate-General’s department during the war, and in the ” caretaker ” Government was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works. He went on the good-will mission to U.S.S.R. and was on the Anglo-American Palestine Committee.

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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 : Broxtowe

CANDIDATE : Cocks

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Seymour Cocks has held Broxtowe since 1929 and is a former chairman of the Foreign Affairs Group of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Born in 1882 and educated at Plymouth College, he is an author and journalist who joined the Labour Party in 1917. A member of the National Council for the Prevention of War, he has served on Parliamentary delegations to Greece, Italy, and the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe.

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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 : Banbury

CANDIDATE : Fenton

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. R. Fenton, a senior English master, is 45, and spent much of his early life in South Wales during the depression. Educated at Caerleon College, Newport, he became a teacher, and has held various offices in the Labour Party, including the presidency of the Rickmansworth branch.

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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 : Bridgwater

CANDIDATE : King-Hall

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. S. King-Hall, author, playwright, and broadcaster, was first returned for Orms-kirk in 1939 as a National Labour member. In 1945, standing as an Independent, he lost the seat to Mr. H. Wilson. Born in 1893, a son of Admiral Sir G. King-Hall, he served in the 1914-18 war with Admiral Beatty’s Battle Cruiser Squadron, and took part in the Battle of Jutland. Later he was appointed to the Naval Staff. He retired in [929, and took charge of the research department of the Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs. In the late war he worked with the Ministry of Aircraft Production and in the fuel economy campaign. He founded the Hansard Society.

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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 : Brierley Hill

CANDIDATE : Simmons

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. J. Simmons was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions in 1949, and before that was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. He was elected to Parliament in 1945 for the West Birmingham division, and in the 1929-31 Parliament represented Erdington. From 1921 to 1945 he served on the Birmingham City Council. He fought in the 1914-18 war, and is a political lecturer, organizer, and journalist.

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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 : Bury St Edmunds

CANDIDATE : Sparham

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. W. Sparham, a Lowestoft master printer, is 36, and was for four years a member of the town council. He founded the Lowestoft Young Liberals in 1934, is a member of the Party executive and a vice-president of the National League of Young Liberals.

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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 : Chertsey

CANDIDATE : Owen

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Owen was born at Addlestone in 1916 and is a depot inspector of the London Transport Executive. He joined the Liberal Party in 1946 and was chairman of Walton and Weybridge Liberal Association and of the Esher Division Liberal Executive Committee. He served in the Royal Artillery in India and Burma during the war and was with the counter intelligence section of the Control Commission in Germany in 1945 and 1946.

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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 : Guildford

CANDIDATE : Nugent

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. R. H. Nugent, a poultry farmer, was born in 1907 and began life as a soldier in the Royal Artillery after attending the Royal Military Academy. He took up farming at Churt in 1928, moving to Dunsfold in 1935. Since 1942 he has been a member of the Surrey County Council, and is one of the four members of the Agricultural Improvements Council of Great Britain, an advisory body to the Ministry of Agriculture. He was chairman of the Guildford Division Conservative Association, 1945-47, and is a member of the Party’s S.E. Area Provincial Council.

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