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 : Reading South

CANDIDATE : Opperman

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. L. Opperman, aged 44, is an engineer with a business in Newbury, and a member of the Committee for Business Training set up by the Ministry of Labour. He has served on various local bodies and held an honorary commission in the R.A.F.V.R.

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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 : Rossendale

CANDIDATE : Tomlinson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. L. M. Tomlinson, first woman to contest Rossendale, is a Manchester housewife. She is chairman of Urmston Women’s Liberals Association and on the executive of the Lancashire, Cheshire, and North-West Liberal Federatio?.

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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 : Salford West

CANDIDATE : Royle

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Royle, who was born in 1899, was educated at Stockport Grammar School. He was a master butcher for many years, and is an ex-president of the Manchester and Salford Butchers’ Association and executive member of other meat trade organizations, but he resigned from the National “”*? *?* Federation after there was criticism of the nationalization threat. He was on the Stockport Borough Council from 1928 to 1935, and has been chairman of the Stockport Trades and Labour Council. He was first elected to Parliament in 1945.

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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 : Sheffield Hillsborough

CANDIDATE : Bennett

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Bennett is 36. Called up early in the war, he was discharged in 1941. He is a former general secretary of the Young Communist League, and since 1945 has been the party’s Yorkshire district secretary and member of the national executive. He has visited Czechoslovakia and the United States.

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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 : Southampton Test

CANDIDATE : Brembridge

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Bremridge, aged 39, was in the Royal Navy for seven years until invalided out in 1935 after a flying accident with the Fleet Air Arm. Later he worked in the design offices of two aircraft firms, joined the R.A.F. Reserve in 1938, and became awing commander in 1944. Demobilized in 1945, he declined a permanent commission to enter politics.

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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 : South Shields

CANDIDATE : George

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. George, a mining engineer, aged 64, was for 25 years hon. secretary of the National Association of Colliery Managers of Scotland and vice-president of the parent association in Great Britain for 10 years. Holds bronze medal for a paper on coal conveying and lectured on mining for five 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 : Stoke-on-Trent South

CANDIDATE : Orridge

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Orridge, aged 41, started as an office boy with a glass firm and became a director in 1934. Later he was an executive with a tyre manufacturing company and left in 1941 to take an R.A.F. commission. He served in the Middle East and was invalided out in 1944, and is a publisher and bookseller. At one time a Liberal, he was adopted as prospective candidate for South Stoke in 1948, but joined the Conservative Party in 1949.

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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 : Swindon

CANDIDATE : Gorsky

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. D. Gorsky, the wife of a London doctor and barrister, fought N. Hackney in 1945. Aged 38, she has occupied many posts in the Liberal Party, including membership of the party council, and was part author of the Liberal report ” The Great Partnership.” At London University in 1944, she received the Gilchrist gold medal and diploma for social studies and in the war she was a commandant in the Red Cross.

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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 : Wakefield

CANDIDATE : Watson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Watson was born in 1897 and is the proprietor of an outfitters store in Wakefield. For 14 years he served on the Wakefield City Council, and was mayor in 1946. In addition to his local government activities he is a member of Wakefield Chamber of Commerce and Shipping and the local Chamber of Trade, of which he is a past president.

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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 : Walthamstow West

CANDIDATE : Hutchinson

PARTY : Lab. Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. L. Hutchinson, a journalist and author who studied at Neuchatel, Geneva, and Edinburgh, sat in the 1945 Parliament as Labour member for the Rusholme division of Manchester. He was expelled from the Labour Party in July, 1949, for his criticism of the Government’s foreign policy. Born in 1904, he served in the Navy from 1942 to 1944.

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