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 : Farnworth

CANDIDATE : Kay

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Kay, born in 1895, was delivering newspapers at the age of 10, and left school at 12, but studied the dyeing trade in evening continuation schools. He was gassed at Vimy Ridge in the 1914-18 war. He is now head of his own business of property owners and estate managers and chairman or vice-chairman of six other companies.

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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 : Morecambe and Lonsdale

CANDIDATE : Leeming

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Leeming is a 37-year-old stockbroker. He is a member of a well-known Lancashire family and during the war served with the Royal Army Pay Corps.

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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 : Widnes

CANDIDATE : Pilkington

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. R. A. Pilkington was born in 1908 and educated at Charterhouse and Oxford He took up farming in Canada in 1928, but returned to this country in 1930 to join the Coldstream Guards. He resigned his commission on his election as M.P. for Widnes in 1935, which seat he held until 1945. Rejoining the Army in 1939, he went to France almost immediately, and was among the last to leave Dunkirk. He remained in the Army until 1942, when he became Civil Lord of the Admiralty.

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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 : Grantham

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. M. Smith, banker, discount agent, and farmer, of Hitchin, was born in 1908 and went to Eton and Cambridge. He is a member of Herts County Council and was formerly chairman of Hitchin Conservative Association, and county commandant of Herts A.C.F. A Territorial, he served with the 4th County of London Yeomanry until he was invalided out in 1941.

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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 : Louth (Borough)

CANDIDATE : Cox

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. W. Cox, an alderman and former mayor of Cleethorpes (now included in the division), is also a member of the Lindsey County Council. He served 13 years in the forces, first with The Lincolnshire Regiment and later with the Indian Army.

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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 : Norfolk South

CANDIDATE : Baker

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Baker, born in 1921, served with airborne formations in Europe and Af?ica during the war. While working with the resistance movement in Holland he was taken prisoner, and though he twice escaped he was recaptured on both occasions. An author, he is also the director of a number of publishing companies, and is interested in agriculture and stock breeding.

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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 : Northamptonshire South

CANDIDATE : Manningham-Buller

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. E. Manningham-Buller, K.C., was M.P. for Daventry from 1943 to 1950. Son of a former member for Kettering and Northampton, he was born in 1905 jg and went to Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was admitted to Inner Temple in 1927, practised on the Midland Circuit, and became a K.C. in 1948. He served in the Judge Advocate-General’s department during the war, and in the ” caretaker ” Government was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works. He went on the good-will mission to U.S.S.R. and was on the Anglo-American Palestine Committee.

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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 : Broxtowe

CANDIDATE : Cocks

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Seymour Cocks has held Broxtowe since 1929 and is a former chairman of the Foreign Affairs Group of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Born in 1882 and educated at Plymouth College, he is an author and journalist who joined the Labour Party in 1917. A member of the National Council for the Prevention of War, he has served on Parliamentary delegations to Greece, Italy, and the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe.

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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 : Banbury

CANDIDATE : Fenton

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. R. Fenton, a senior English master, is 45, and spent much of his early life in South Wales during the depression. Educated at Caerleon College, Newport, he became a teacher, and has held various offices in the Labour Party, including the presidency of the Rickmansworth branch.

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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 : Bridgwater

CANDIDATE : King-Hall

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. S. King-Hall, author, playwright, and broadcaster, was first returned for Orms-kirk in 1939 as a National Labour member. In 1945, standing as an Independent, he lost the seat to Mr. H. Wilson. Born in 1893, a son of Admiral Sir G. King-Hall, he served in the 1914-18 war with Admiral Beatty’s Battle Cruiser Squadron, and took part in the Battle of Jutland. Later he was appointed to the Naval Staff. He retired in [929, and took charge of the research department of the Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs. In the late war he worked with the Ministry of Aircraft Production and in the fuel economy campaign. He founded the Hansard Society.

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