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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Croydon North Constituency – Biography of Harris

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Croydon North Constituency – Biography of Harris

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Croydon North

    CANDIDATE : Harris

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. W. Harris won North Croydon at a by-election in March, 1948, when he defeated Mr. Harold Nicolson, increasing the Conservative majority from 607 to 11,664. Thirty-five years old, he is managing director of a food products firm. He owns a ‘arm in Kenya, and a number of racehorses, one of which won the weat Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom two years ago. He has been a member of Croydon Borough Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dartford Constituency – Biography of Giles

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dartford Constituency – Biography of Giles

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dartford

    CANDIDATE : Giles

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. H. Giles, a research engineer, was born in 1915 and educated at Winkfield County School, Berkshire. He served with The Rifle Brigade during the war, and was wounded at El Alamein. As a branch official of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, he is a delegate to Holborn Trades Council. He lives at Kenley, Surrey.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dudley Constituency – Biography of Farran

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dudley Constituency – Biography of Farran

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dudley

    CANDIDATE : Farran

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. R. A. Farran was born in India in 1921 and educated there and at Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the 3rd Hussars, and in an adventurous service career gained many decorations including the American Legion of Merit and the Croix de Guerre. In 1948 he went to Southern Rhodesia, where he is a director of several companies, returning in October last after offering to contest Dudley for the Conservatives.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eccles Constituency – Biography of Proctor

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eccles Constituency – Biography of Proctor

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eccles

    CANDIDATE : Proctor

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. T. Proctor won the seat from the Conservatives in 1945. In 1948 he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Creech Jones, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Formerly a railway worker, Mr. Proctor is a former branch secretary of the National Union of Rail-waymen, and was once its representative on the International Transport Federation. He was born in 1896.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Exeter Constituency – Biography of Maude

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Exeter Constituency – Biography of Maude

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Exeter

    CANDIDATE : Maude

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr.J.C. Maude, K.C., entered Parliament for Exeter in 1945. He is a son of Sir Cyril Maude, the actor, and was born in 1901. . Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was called to the Bar in 1925. From 1939 until 1944 he was Recorder of Devizes, and then became Recorder of Plymouth. He took silk in 1943. At the outbreak of the second world war he became an officer in the Intelligence Corps, serving in this country and for 12 months in Washington as security officer for various British missions. Returning to England in 1942, he was employed in the Cabinet offices.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gosport and Fareham Constituency – Biography of Nobes

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gosport and Fareham Constituency – Biography of Nobes

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gosport and Fareham

    CANDIDATE : Nobes

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. R. Nobes, born in 1905, is a shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard. He attended the Dockyard Upper School and later the Municipal College for Naval Architecture. He was chairman of the Gosport Labour Party in 1928. He has served on the Gosport Borough Council since 1934, was mayor from 1946 to 1949, and was a member of the Hampshire County Council from 1943 to 1949.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harrow West Constituency – Biography of Littlewood

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harrow West Constituency – Biography of Littlewood

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Harrow West

    CANDIDATE : Littlewood

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. L. Littlewood, aged 42, is general secretary of the B.B.C. Staff Association. He has been a trade unionist since he was 15, when, on the early death of his father, he had to relinquish a scholarship to Hull Grammar School and became a clerk with the L.N.E.R. He subsequently took a B.Sc. (Econ.) degree with honours. He became deputy-general secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union in 1942, and took up his present appointment three years ago.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hendon South Constituency – Biography of Lucas-Tooth

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hendon South Constituency – Biography of Lucas-Tooth

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hendon South

    CANDIDATE : Lucas-Tooth

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth, member for the constituency since 1945, represented the Isle of Ely from 1924 to 1929. Born in 1903, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and called to the Bar. When the first baronet died, having lost all his sons in France during the war, the King granted a re-creation of the baronetcy in favour of his eldest grandson, H. V. H. D. Warrand, the present holder, who assumed the name and arms of Lucas-Tooth.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huddersfield East Constituency – Biography of Mallalieu

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huddersfield East Constituency – Biography of Mallalieu

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huddersfield East

    CANDIDATE : Mallalieu

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu was elected for Huddersfield in 1945. He has been Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Food and the Secretary of State for Air. He served in the Navy from 1942 to 1945, and wrote several books on his experiences. Aged 41, he was president of the Oxford Union in 1930, and an Oxford Rugby blue. He later worked for a number of years as a London journalist.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Keighley Constituency – Biography of Walker

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Keighley Constituency – Biography of Walker

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Keighley

    CANDIDATE : Walker

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Walker, aged 36, is a former Coastal Command pilot and squadron leader, who won the D.F.C. for anti-submarine work in the North Atlantic. A blanket manufacturer at Mirfield, he is a vice-president of the Yorkshire Area Liberal Federation and president of the Dewsbury League of Young Liberals. He was educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and holds an honours degree in economics.

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