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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Merthyr Tydfil Constituency – Biography of Morgan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Merthyr Tydfil Constituency – Biography of Morgan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Merthyr Tydfil

    CANDIDATE : Morgan

    PARTY : Ind. Welsh Nat.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. Morgan is aged 35, and an insurance agent in the Aberdare area. He has worked in the mines, and on the land. Twice previously he stood as a Welsh Nationalist in the Ogmore division, but has fought this election without the backing of the party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Anglesey Constituency – Biography of Hughes

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Anglesey Constituency – Biography of Hughes

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Anglesey

    CANDIDATE : Hughes

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Hughes is a soldier, and was born in Holyhead in 1916. He was at the University?College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and graduated in law in 1937. A member of the Anglesey County Council, he is also a member of the Court of Governors of the University of Wales and of the National Museum of Wales. He was Labour candidate for the constituency in 1945. He served in the R.A.F. in the last war and was a flight lieutenant.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carmarthen Constituency – Biography of Ungoed-Thomas

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carmarthen Constituency – Biography of Ungoed-Thomas

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carmarthen

    CANDIDATE : Ungoed-Thomas

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. L. Ungoed-Thomas, K.C., in the last Parliament represented Llandaff and Barry, which he captured from the Conservatives in 1945. Born in 1904, he is the son of a Baptist minister. Educated at Haileybury and Magdalen College, Oxford, he graduated with honours, and was called to the Bar in 1929. He established a large practice in the Chancery division, and took silk in 1947. During the war he was on the staff at the War Office. He was a member last summer of the British delegation to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Flintshire West Constituency – Biography of Ellis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Flintshire West Constituency – Biography of Ellis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Flintshire West

    CANDIDATE : Ellis

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr.W. A. Ellis, a solicitor, was born in 1913 and graduated with first-class honours in law at the University College of Wales. During the war he attained the rank of major, and served at the general headquarters of India ?Command as deputy assistant director.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ogmore Constituency – Biography of Gower

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ogmore Constituency – Biography of Gower

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ogmore

    CANDIDATE : Gower

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. R. Gower, born in Neath in 1916, was educated at University College, Cardiff, and the Cardiff School of Law, and is a partner in a Cardiff firm of solicitors. He served during the war in the Royal Observer Corps and in Civil Defence. He is secretary of the Friends of Wales Society and a member of the Welsh Council of the ^United Nations Organization.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Monmouth Constituency – Biography of Thorneycroft

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Monmouth Constituency – Biography of Thorneycroft

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Monmouth

    CANDIDATE : Thorneycroft

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, elected M.P. for Stafford in 1938, was defeated in 1945 but won a by-election at Monmouth in October of that year. Born in 1909 ?nd educated at Eton, he went on to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in 1930. Four years later he became a barrister and practised on the Oxford circuit. In the ” caretaker” Government he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdeen South Constituency – Biography of Pirie

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdeen South Constituency – Biography of Pirie

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aberdeen South

    CANDIDATE : Pirie

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. T. Pirie, aged 28, was a fighter pilot in the war and won the 0.F.M. He graduated at Aberdeen University in engineering, and was president of the Scottish Union of Students.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Central Constituency – Biography of Sleigh

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Central Constituency – Biography of Sleigh

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh Central

    CANDIDATE : Sleigh

    PARTY : Ind. Scot. Nat.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. H. Sleigh is a retired cavalry officer, who served in the 1914-18 war. He has contested the Edinburgh Corporation elections, and at the last General Election in 1945 he was a candidate for the same constituency, when he forfeited his deposit.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh West Constituency – Biography of Hutchison

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh West Constituency – Biography of Hutchison

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh West

    CANDIDATE : Hutchison

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Cmdr. G. I. C. Hutchison, who became M.P. for the division in 1941, is son of a former member for North Midlothian. Born in 1903 and educated at Edinburgh Academy and Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth, he served in the Royal Navy and became a specialist in mines and torpedoes. He was inspector of naval ordnance, Edinburgh, and South East Scotland in the last war. For six years he was a member of Edinburgh Town Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Gorbals Constituency – Biography of Kerrigan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Gorbals Constituency – Biography of Kerrigan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Gorbals

    CANDIDATE : Kerrigan

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. Kerrigan, aged 50, has been an active member of the Communist Party since 1921 and is a national organizer. In several municipal elections he has always been unsuccessful.

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