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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bexley Constituency – Biography of Bramall

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bexley Constituency – Biography of Bramall

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bexley

    CANDIDATE : Bramall

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Bramall was elected for Bexley in a by-election in July, 1946, with a majority of 1,851. Bora in 1916, he is a barrister, having been called to the Bar last year. He is a former member of Twickenham Borough Council. Enlisting in the Army as a trooper, he reached the rank of major. In 1938 he was treasurer of the Oxford Union.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Edgbaston Constituency – Biography of Hobson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Edgbaston Constituency – Biography of Hobson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Edgbaston

    CANDIDATE : Hobson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. A. Hobson, a Birmingham man born in 1899, won a foundation scholarship at King Edward’s Grammar School, Birmingham, at the age of 10. After employment in an export merchant’s office and service in the first war, he was for 20 years chief clerk in a manufacturing concern. Last year he was appointed a lecturer in health education in the schools by Birmingham Health Department.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Perry Barr Constituency – Biography of Poole

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Perry Barr Constituency – Biography of Poole

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Perry Barr

    CANDIDATE : Poole

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Cecil Poole represented the old Lichfield division from 1938 to 1945. A native of Wellington, Salop, he is aged 48. He was a member of Walsall Borough Council from 1931 to 1938. He began work at the age of 16 with the L.M.S. Railway in South Wales, and later served in Westmorland and the Midlands. During the second world war he served in the Royal Engineers, reaching the rank of major.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackburn East Constituency – Biography of Castle

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackburn East Constituency – Biography of Castle

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blackburn East

    CANDIDATE : Castle

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. Barbara Castle, aged 38, was one of the two M.P.s for Blackburn m the last Parliament. She won a scholarship to St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, and entered journalism. An administrative officer m the Ministry of Food until her election to parliament in 1945, she was later Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps when he was at the Board of Trade, and to his successor, Mr. H. Wilson. Last year she was one of the ontish representatives at the General Assembly °t the United Nations.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bolton West Constituency – Biography of Tong

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bolton West Constituency – Biography of Tong

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bolton West

    CANDIDATE : Tong

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. W. Tong is a former mayor of Bolton. He was born on February 26, 1890, and took the degree of technical science with honours at Manchester University. He joined j-he family brewing business in Bolton and became a director. He has been a member of Bolton Town Council since 1925, and is leader of the Conservative group on that body.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bradford East Constituency – Biography of Snowden

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bradford East Constituency – Biography of Snowden

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bradford East

    CANDIDATE : Snowden

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. S. Snowden, who contested the division in 1945, is a barrister on the north-east circuit. He was educated a? Sedbergh and St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he took the Law Tripos, 1923. He has been active in Bradford and Yorkshire Liberal federations.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brighton Kemptown Constituency – Biography of Buckley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brighton Kemptown Constituency – Biography of Buckley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brighton Kemptown

    CANDIDATE : Buckley

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. M. Buckley, 40 years of age, is a chartered surveyor and valuer, and a member of three regional planning committees and of the National Joint Council for Land Drainage. He served with the Rbyal Engineers in Europe during the war. He is chairman of the Sussex Liberal Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol South East Constituency – Biography of Cripps

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol South East Constituency – Biography of Cripps

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol South East

    CANDIDATE : Cripps

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Stafford Cripps, K.C., Chancellor of the Exchequer since 1947, is 61, and has represented the division since 1931. Son of the Labour peer Lord Parmoor—a former Conservative M.P. —he was educated at Winchester and University College, London; was called to the Bar in 1913, took silk in 1927, and was appointed Solicitor-General in 1931, before he had a seat in Parliament. He was expelled from the Labour Party for his association with the ” United Front” movement, and for six years remained ” in the wilderness.” After the outbreak of war he went as Ambassador to Moscow, and later was Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Commons, Minister of Aircraft Production, President of the Board of Trade, and Minister for Economic Affairs. Early in 1942 he was sent to India by Mr. Churchill to seek agreement on constitutional reform. In 1946 he led the Cabinet mission to India which paved the way to Indian independence.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bury and Radcliffe Constituency – Biography of Hindley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bury and Radcliffe Constituency – Biography of Hindley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bury and Radcliffe

    CANDIDATE : Hindley

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Hindley is senior history master at Bury Grammar School, and was educated at Bolton School and Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated with an honours degree in history. He has been active in adult education for many years, and is a Methodist local preacher.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Coventry East Constituency – Biography of Davis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Coventry East Constituency – Biography of Davis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Coventry East

    CANDIDATE : Davis

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. H. Davis, born in 1900, was a seagoing wireless operator in the late years of the 1914-18 war, and in the last war was an intelligence officer in the Home Guard. He is the principal of a Birmingham firm of estate agents.

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