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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wakefield Constituency – Biography of Greenwood

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wakefield Constituency – Biography of Greenwood

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wakefield

    CANDIDATE : Greenwood

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Arthur Greenwood, who was born in 1880, is honorary treasurer of the Labour Party. In the first Labour Government in 1924 he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, and in the 1929-31 Government he was Minister of Health. At the 1931 General Election he lost his seat at Nelson and Colne, but returned to 1he House the following year as Member for Wakefield. He was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party before the war. When Mr. Churchill for?ed his wartime Government in 1940, Mr. Greenwood became a member of the War Cabinet, but in 1942 he resigned. On Labour coming into power in 1945 he was appointed Lord Privy Seal. He became Paymaster-General in 1946 and was Minister without Portfolio from April to October, 1947.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow West Constituency – Biography of Pim

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow West Constituency – Biography of Pim

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Walthamstow West

    CANDIDATE : Pim

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Wg. Cdr. A. W. Pim, a stockbroker, was educated at Lancing and served with the R.A.F. in France, West Africa, and Burma. He is a member of Chatham House, chairman of the St. George’s Boys’ Club, Westminster, and of the Westminster Family Welfare Association, and an honorary steward of Westminster Abbey.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wembley South Constituency – Biography of Barton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wembley South Constituency – Biography of Barton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wembley South

    CANDIDATE : Barton

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Barton won the new constituency of South Wembley in 1945. Born in 1922 in the West Riding of Yorkshire, he lives in Wembley and was the first Labour mayor of the borough in 1942-43. He has served on the council for 15 years, and has been a member of the Railway Clerks’ Association since 1912.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wigan Constituency – Biography of Rowlandson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wigan Constituency – Biography of Rowlandson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wigan

    CANDIDATE : Rowlandson

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. Rowlandson is 38, a native of Wigan, and secretary of the Manchester and Salford Communist Party, and has also served as chairman of the Lancashire and Cheshire district in the party organization. An engineering draughtsman, in 1944 he was preside?t of the Union of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton South West Constituency – Biography of Rollason

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton South West Constituency – Biography of Rollason

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wolverhampton South West

    CANDIDATE : Rollason

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. F. H. Rollason is a schoolmaster and lives at Quinton, Birmingham. He studied at Birmingham University and Birmingham School of Arts and Crafts. He is a past president of Rowley Regis Teachers’ Association and treasurer of the Oldbury and Halesowen Liberal Association. During the war he served as a major with the Royal Artillery.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : York Constituency – Biography of Clay

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : York Constituency – Biography of Clay

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : York

    CANDIDATE : Clay

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. S. Clay is a secretary-accountant in Hull. When living in Leeds he was secretary of a Liberal association, and when he moved to Hull in 1945 became honorary agent to the Liberal candidate in N.W. Hull. He has been chairman of N.W. Hull Liberal Association and president of Hull Liberal Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newbury Constituency – Biography of Jackson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newbury Constituency – Biography of Jackson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newbury

    CANDIDATE : Jackson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Jackson is 27 and lives in London. Educated at Tewkesbury Grammar School, he served during the war in India, the Middle East, Italy, and Germany, and has since studied law at Oxford and taken a degree in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, he was secretary of the Labour Club, treasurer of the Union, and secretary of the University Law Society. A member of the Oxford University debating team which toured South Africa, Rhodesia, and Kenya, he also led a British team to India, Pakistan, and Ceylon under the British Council, and has just returned from a debating tour for the English Speaking Union in the United States and Canada.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Buckinghamshire South Constituency – Biography of Belfrage

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Buckinghamshire South Constituency – Biography of Belfrage

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Buckinghamshire South

    CANDIDATE : Belfrage

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Bruce Belfrage, who took an honours degree at Oxford in modern languages, started his career as an actor, was a broadcaster in the early days of 2LO at Savoy Hill, and in 1935 joined the B.B.C. as a casting director and later became a news reader and announcer. He enlisted in the R.N.V.R. in 1942, and was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant-commander. He was born in 1901.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Knutsford Constituency – Biography of Bromley-Davenport

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Knutsford Constituency – Biography of Bromley-Davenport

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Knutsford

    CANDIDATE : Bromley-Davenport

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. W. H. Bromley – Davenport was elected in 1945. His family has been linked with the House of Commons since the reign of Queen Anne, and one ancestor, William Bromley, was Speaker. He served in the Grenadier Guards until 1937 and in 1939 raised and commanded the 5th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment. He was appointed a Conservative whip in 1948, and last year was made Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wirral Constituency – Biography of Kelly

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wirral Constituency – Biography of Kelly

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wirral

    CANDIDATE : Kelly

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. H. A. Kelly, an Army officer for 28 years, is now a farmer in North Wales. Born in 1899, he joined the Army from Sandhurst in 1918, and in the last war commanded West African troops in Burma.

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