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 : South Angus

CANDIDATE : Hogg

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Hogg, aged 43, is a trade union official. A baker in Aberdeen for about 25 years, he was appointed North Scotland organizer for the Scottish Union of Bakers and Confectioners. He joined the Labour Party in 1924, and has served for five years on Aberdeen Town Council.

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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 : Kilmarnock

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. I. Brown, formerly a teacher, is engaged full time in Communist activities. On three occasions she opposed Viscountess Astor in Parliamentary elections, and fought a by-election in Kilmarnock without success in 1929.

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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 : Dunbartonshire East

CANDIDATE : Forrester

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. E. Forrester, a boilermaker, was yard convener during the war at Colville’s Steel Works, Clydebridge, where he is secretary of the yard and factory committee and shop steward of the boilermakers. He is a former member of Glasgow Corporation.

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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 : Western Isles

CANDIDATE : Sinclair

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Wg. Cdr. H. McD. Sinclair contested the division in 1945. Born in Quebec, he took an M.A. degree at Edinburgh University and gained other academic honours in Canada and the United States. An R.F.C. pil?t in the 1914-18 war, he was a wing commander in the Canadian Air Force in the late war. He was Canadian representative on the European Committee of Unrra, and is joint hon. treasurer of the Liberal International.

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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 : Lanarkshire North

CANDIDATE : Nelson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. F. B. Nelson is 22 and a printer’ He was educated at Arnold School, Blackpool, and is a manager in Glasgow.

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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 : Perth and East Perthshire

CANDIDATE : Hughes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Hughes was born in 1911, and is a building contractor. For many years he has been a member of Dundee City Council, and was the unsuccessful Labour candidate in Perth and Kinross in 1945. Recently he was appointed chairman of the Regional Hospitals Board. When war broke out he was appointed A.R.P. controller for his native Dundee, and was awarded the O.B.E. for his services. He subsequently went into the Army and rose to the rank of captain.

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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 : West Lothian

CANDIDATE : Younger

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. McE. Younger was born in 1905, and is a managing director. He was in the Territorial Army and served throughout the last war. He was in the siege of Tobruk, and won the D.S.O., and with the Eighth Army during the advance from El Alamein to Tunis ; he also commanded the 14th L.A.A. Regiment in the Salerno landings. In 1948 he was elected president of the West Lothian Junior Unionist Association.

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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 : Battersea North

CANDIDATE : Handscombe

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. R. Handscombe is a Fulham builder who began life as a barrister’s clerk. Aged 48, he went to St. Martin’s High School, S.W. He was a member of the Labour Party until he joined the Liberals, and is chairman of a ward organization in Fulham. He is also chairman of the Fulham panel of builders and a member of the area committee of the Master Builders’ Federation.

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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 : Camberwell Peckham

CANDIDATE : Lee

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. H. Lee, aged 38, was born in Cornwall and orphaned at the age of six, being brought up by his grandparents. He went to Westminster College and the University of London, and is a teacher, and holds office i? the National Union of Teachers. He is a member of Wembley Borough Council, and has held a number of offices in the Conservative 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 : Fulham East

CANDIDATE : Jacoby

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Jacoby, born in 1887, is a retired io!t manager- He was commissioned in the 1*14-18 war and won the M.C. In the last war he served in the Home Guard and was commander of the Hyde Park Defences.

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