CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leicester North East
CANDIDATE : Moroney
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. M. J. Moroney, aged 32, was born in Leicester of Irish parents. He is a mathematics lecturer in the Leicester College of Technology. He was educated locally.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lincoln
CANDIDATE : de Freitas
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas, who succeeded Mr. Strachey as Undersecretary for Air, is 37 and was M.P. for Central Nottingham in the last Parliament. He was educated at Haileybury and Clare College, Cambridge, and spent two years as Mellon Fellow at Yale University. He became president of the Cambridge Union. He is a barrister on the Midland Circuit and was one of the British delegation to the United Nations Assembly. He joined the Royal Artillery in 1939. He served in the R.A.F. from 1940 until 1945.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Liverpool Scotland
CANDIDATE : Woollam
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. V. Woollam is 21 years of age and the son of a boilermaker and riveter. He entered Liverpool University in 1945 as a Royal Institution Iliffe Scholar and as a special scholar under the Liverpool Education Committee’s scheme and specialized in the study of Imperial economic affairs.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Ardwick
CANDIDATE : Lever
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. L. M. Lever, a Manchester solicitor, was born in 1905 and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Leeds University, where he graduated LL.B. Since 1932 he has been a member of M anchester City Council, and has given service as honorary legal adviser to welfare organizations.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Gorton
CANDIDATE : Watts
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Watts, born in 1905, was educated at Shrewsbury and New College, Oxford, and is a partner in a large wholesale textile firm in Manchester. Elected to Manchester City Council in 1933, he resigned in 1938 to give his time to recruiting and training for the Territorial Army. He served throughout the war. Mr. Watts is treasurer of Manchester Conservative Association.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Middlesbrough East
CANDIDATE : Marquand
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Hilary Marquand, who was appointed Minister of Pensions in July, 1948, was born in Wales in 1901 and educated at Cardiff University, where he was a prizeman, winning honours in history and economics. After graduating he became lecturer in economics at Birmingham University. He spent a year in America studying industrial relations, and was visiting lecturer at Wisconsin University. He is an authority on industrial and social problems in South Wales, where his former seat, East Cardiff, has disappeared. He has held office as Secretary of Overseas Trade and Paymaster-General.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newcastle upon Tyne Central
CANDIDATE : Barton
PARTY : I.L.P.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. G. Barton, aged 32, is a caravan salesman in the Manchester district. Joining the I.L.P. 10 years ago, he is now a member of its national council. As a member of the Society of Friends he was a conscientious objector during the last war and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment, but this was reversed on appeal to the tribunal.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norwich South
CANDIDATE : Strauss
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Henry Strauss, K.C., was born in 1892 and educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1919 and took silk in 1946. He became Conservative M.P. for Norwich in 1935, but was defeated in 1945. During the war Mr. Strauss was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Town and Country Planning, until he resigned over disagreement with the Yalta Conference decisions. In 1946 he re-entered the House of Commons for the Combined English Universities. He is chairman of the S.C.A.P.A. Society and is on the executive of the National Trust.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Oldbury and Halesowen
CANDIDATE : Baxter
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. L. C. Baxter was born in 1911. After some years in the mercantile marine, he joined a firm of bolt, screw, and rivet manufacturers as a labourer and in 1939 was appointed general manager. He served during the war on a Ministry of Production area committee. He is chairman of the Non-Ferrous Small Rivet Association and vice-chairman of the Midland group of the Institution of Works Managers.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Plymouth Sutton
CANDIDATE : Middleton
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. Lucy Middleton, member for this constituency since 1945, stood for South Padding-ton in 1931 and Pudsey and Otley in 1935. Bom in a Somerset village in 1894, she became a teacher in Bristol and Gloucestershire and an active worker in the Labour cause. In the conferences and inquiries from which the India Act, 1935, emerged she acted as political adviser of Hindu minorities. In 1936 she married Mr. J. S. Middleton, a former national secretary of the Labour Party.
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