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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carshalton Constituency – Biography of Head

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carshalton Constituency – Biography of Head

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carshalton

    CANDIDATE : Head

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Brig. A. H. Head was born in 1906 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst. Entering the Army as a career, he first joined the 15/] 9th Hussars and later transferred to The Life Guards. He served throughout the last war, being Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, then on the staff of the Chief of Combined Operations, and later representative with the Director of Plans for Amphibious Operations. He entered Parliament in 1945 and is chairman of the Conservative Party’s subcommittee on the Army.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Esher Constituency – Biography of Chipchase

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Esher Constituency – Biography of Chipchase

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Esher

    CANDIDATE : Chipchase

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss E. E. B. Chipchase, born in 1916, is a clerk in the Development and Research Office of the London Transport Executive. Since 193? she has been a member of the Railway Clerks’ Association and is the secretary of the Westminster branch. She joined the Labour Party in 1941, and was formerly a member of the T.U.C. Women’s Advisory Committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eastbourne Constituency – Biography of Bate

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eastbourne Constituency – Biography of Bate

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eastbourne

    CANDIDATE : Bate

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. C. L. H. D. Bate, a former Regular Army officer, aged 51, was born at Ladysmith and is now a director of a merchants’ import and export business. After two years’ service oversea in the 1914-18 war he was with the Danzig Plebiscite Force in 1920, the West African Frontier Force, 1920-25, the Army of the Rhine, 1927-28, and in India, 1928-32. Recalled on the outbreak of war, he served in North Africa and Italy.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nuneaton Constituency – Biography of Bowles

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nuneaton Constituency – Biography of Bowles

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nuneaton

    CANDIDATE : Bowles

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. G. Bowles, returned unopposed for the constituency in 1942 and re-elected in 1945, was deputy Chairman of Committees in the last House of Commons. Born in 1902 and educated at London University, he is a solicitor. He was vice – chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1946 to 1948. He is a bachelor.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westmorland Constituency – Biography of Vane

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westmorland Constituency – Biography of Vane

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Westmorland

    CANDIDATE : Vane

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. M. F. Vane, chartered surveyor and land agent, aged 40, was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. Commissioned in The Durham Light Infantry, 1928, and serving thiough the war, he attained the rank of lieutenant – colonel in 1943. He is a landowner at Penrith and Deputy Lieutenant of the county.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westbury Constituency – Biography of Richardson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westbury Constituency – Biography of Richardson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Westbury

    CANDIDATE : Richardson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. B. Richardson was Labour candidate for Westmorland in 1945. An M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge, he held a number of educational appointments in India and was a captain in the Gurkha Rifles during the war. Attended the San Francisco Conference as one of the secretaries to the Indian delegation. He was born in 1910.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cleveland Constituency – Biography of Willey

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cleveland Constituency – Biography of Willey

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cleveland

    CANDIDATE : Willey

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. O. G. Willey, M.P. for Cleveland since 1945, had previously engaged unsuccessfully in five election contests, two at Skipton and three in Birmingham, where he was once defeated by the late Sir A. Chamberlain by only 43 votes. Born in London 64 years ago, he has been a lecturer in history and social economics during the greater part of his life, and his first association with this district was as deputy commissioner for defence for the North-East Region.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Colne Valley Constituency – Biography of Leslie

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Colne Valley Constituency – Biography of Leslie

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Colne Valley

    CANDIDATE : Leslie

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. F. Leslie, 27, and a former chairman of the Liberal Society of Manchester University, served for six years in the Royal Air Force. He has been a member of the North-West Liberal Federation Executive. After the war he entered Manchester University where he took a first-class honours degree in English.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Penistone Constituency – Biography of Smith

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Penistone Constituency – Biography of Smith

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Penistone

    CANDIDATE : Smith

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. F. Smith was born in 1920 and educated at Giggleswick School and in Sweden, where he studied the manufacture of steel, and is a steel wire manufacturer. During the war he served abroad in the Army and attained the rank of captain. He is a member of the National Insurance Appeal Tribunal and the Yorkshire executive of the Liberal Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdare Constituency – Biography of Hinton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdare Constituency – Biography of Hinton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aberdare

    CANDIDATE : Hinton

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. ?. E. Hinton is managing director of a firm manufacturing combustion stoves. He was born in 1901 and held posts in shipping in India and Burma from 1922 to 1930. Serving with the Royal Engineers, 1939-46, he held a staff appointment at Southern Command H.Q. He was elected to Watford Borough Council in 1946.

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