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 : Ealing South

CANDIDATE : Corn

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss B. Corn lives in Barking and is employed m the offices of Holborn Borough Council. Assistant secretary of the National League of Young Liberals, 1943-45, she restarted the Home Counties Young Liberals federation in 1945, acting as secretary. She ls a member of the council of the Liberal Party.

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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 : Enfield East

CANDIDATE : Turner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. W. C. Turner enlisted in the R.A.F. in 1940 and served in South Africa, East Africa, Malta, Sicily, and Italy. He was a member of the Desert Air Force Squadron throughout the North African campaign. He was commissioned in July, 1943, and awarded the D.F.C. in 1944. Subsequently he was invalided ovit of the R.A.F.

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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 : Gateshead East

CANDIDATE : Zilliacus

PARTY : Lab. Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. Zilliacus, who won Gateshead in 1945, was expelled from the Labour Party last year for persistently criticizing the Government’s foreign policy. He was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1894, his father being of Swedish-Finnish and his mother of American-Scottish birth. He was educated at Petersfield, Hants, and Yale University, where he graduated ” First of his year,” and he speaks eight languages. In the first world war he served with the Royal Flying Corps and was intelligence officer with the British Military Mission in Siberia.

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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 : Halifax

CANDIDATE : Blackburn

PARTY : L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. Blackburn was born in 1906 at Sowerby Bridge. He is managing director of a Halifax firm of spinners, and for three years has been treasurer of the Bradford Dyers’ and Finishers’ Association. He was until recently a vice-president of the Bradford Conservative Association. He was nominated after the Conservative and Liberal associations in the division had failed to reach agreement on the proposal for a joint anti-Socialist candidate.

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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 : Hastings

CANDIDATE : Hurd

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. L. M. Hurd, who was born in 1922, is a solicitor practising at Rye and in the City of London. In 1941 he enlisted in the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman and served in minesweepers, transferring later to the light cruiser H.M.S. Bellona, which took part in the Normandy invasion and in Russian convoy duties. He is the first Liberal to contest Hastings for many years.

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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 : Hornchurch

CANDIDATE : Day

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Wentworth Day, aged 50, comes of a staunch Conservative family and numbers 15 M.P.s among his ancestors. He served in the 1914-18 war, and in the second world war was a B.B.C. correspondent. He has written many books, controls a publicity firm and farms a large acreage in Cambridgeshire.

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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 : Ilford South

CANDIDATE : Cooper

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Cooper, a company director, unsuc-cess fully contested Dagenhamin 1945. Born ln 1910, he was educated at the London School Choristers. At the age °t 24 he became a porough councillor, and ‘J? an alderman. During the war he was a squadron leader in he R.A.F. He lives in Utord, and is a keen cncketer.

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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 : Kingston upon Hull Haltemprice

CANDIDATE : Law

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Richard Law, born in 1901, is the son of Mr. Bonar Law, and was formerly a journalist in London and the United States. Elected for South-West Hull in 1931, he has been Financial Secretary to the War Office, Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, Minister of State, and Minister of Education. Defeated in 1945, he was elected at a by-election the same year for South Kensington.

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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 : Leeds North

CANDIDATE : Peake

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Osbert Peake, who was born at Don-caster in 1897, served with the Coldstream Guards in the 1914-18 war. After being called to the Bar, he took up politics, was elected for North Leeds in 1929, and has represented it ever since. He has been Under-Secretary to the Home Office and Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Formerly a coalowner in South Yorkshire, he is an authority on industrial matters and helped to draft the Workmen’s Compensation Act. He is a descendant of Earl Grey, Prime Minister in 1832. He was made a member of the Privy Council in 1943.

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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 : Leicester North East

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. A. Taylor, a London journalist, was born in 1892 and educated at Manchester. In 1923 he became chairman of Newspaper Features, Limited. He was president of the Institute of Journalists in 1938. He served with the Royal Fusiliers in the 1914-18 war and became staff captain. In 1945 he unsuccessfully contested Doncaster.

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