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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hammersmith North Constituency – Biography of Tomney

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hammersmith North Constituency – Biography of Tomney

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hammersmith North

    CANDIDATE : Tomney

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Tomney was born in 1910 and edu-cated at elementary and technical schools. He is as electronic glass-blower, and a branch secretary j of the Municipal and General Workers’Union. Mr. Tomney is also a member of both Watford j Borough Council and the Herts County Council. He joined the Labour Party in 1925 and is a member of the Cooperative movement.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Islington East Constituency – Biography of Billson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Islington East Constituency – Biography of Billson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Islington East

    CANDIDATE : Billson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. H. C. Billson, aged 34, was a company secretary before the war, during which he served in the R.N.V.R. and took part in the landings at Dieppe, Sicily, and Salerno. In 1946 he was secretary of the fforde Committee which investigated the cement industry, and has since joined the Colonial Service.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lambeth Brixton Constituency – Biography of Foord

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lambeth Brixton Constituency – Biography of Foord

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lambeth Brixton

    CANDIDATE : Foord

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. H. Foord was born at Ewell, Surrey, in 1919, educated at Harrow, and served five years with a family firm of solicitors in the City of London. He was commissioned in Bomber Command and took part in night attacks on Berlin and the Ruhr and on the German battleships at Brest. He was twice mentioned in dispatches. A bachelor, Mr. Foord practises as a solicitor in Westminster.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham West Constituency – Biography of Price

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham West Constituency – Biography of Price

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewisham West

    CANDIDATE : Price

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. A. Price, aged 39, is the son of a builder’s labourer and 1 started life as an office P°y and is partner I ln a firm of paper I merchants. He served I on Lewisham Borough ^ouncil from 1944 to : 1?49, and on the L.C.C. : since 1949, besides being | a school governor and manager. A trained oantone, he has done a great deal of concert work. He is also an anround athlete and likes gardening.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Marylebone Constituency – Biography of Silkin

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Marylebone Constituency – Biography of Silkin

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : St Marylebone

    CANDIDATE : Silkin

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. E. Silkin, 26-year-old son of Mr. Lewis Silkin, was educated at Dulwich, the University of Wales, Cambridge, and London University, and is a lawyer. During the war he served with the Royal Navy in the Far East.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stepney Constituency – Biography of Piratin

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stepney Constituency – Biography of Piratin

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stepney

    CANDIDATE : Piratin

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. Piratin was the first Communist member of Stepney Borough Council, on which he became a ” one-man opposition,” but lost the seat in 1949. He entered Parliament in 1945 as member for Mile End, making, with Mr. W. Gallacher, a Communist Party of two. He is 43 years old.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Streatham Constituency – Biography of Sandys

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Streatham Constituency – Biography of Sandys

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Streatham

    CANDIDATE : Sandys

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. Sandys, a son-in-law of Mr. Churchill, sat for Norwood from 1935 to 1945, and has been Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, Minister of Works, and chairman of the War Cabinet commit- jj tee for defence against German V – weapons. Born in 1908, the son of a §g former M.P. for Wells, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and entered the diplomatic service. He was one of the Expeditionary Force to Norway in 1940, and the next year, after being disabled, he became Finance Member of the Army Council and later chairman of the Inter-governmental Council for Empire Prisoners of War.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Acton Constituency – Biography of Furniss

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Acton Constituency – Biography of Furniss

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Acton

    CANDIDATE : Furniss

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss Pauline Furniss, aged 25, is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where she took first-class honours in modern history and political philosophy. She is national secretary of the United Nations Students’ Association and was formerly on the editorial staff of a Belfast newspaper.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barrow-in-Furness Constituency – Biography of Jardine

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barrow-in-Furness Constituency – Biography of Jardine

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barrow-in-Furness

    CANDIDATE : Jardine

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. A. A. Jardine is an insurance superintendent at Barrow-in-Furness. Aged 40, he went to Bootle Grammar School and entered the service of an insurance company in Liverpool in 1935, rising to district superintendent. In the war he served in India.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bilston Constituency – Biography of Nally

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bilston Constituency – Biography of Nally

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bilston

    CANDIDATE : Nally

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. Nally, a journalist, born in 1914, served as a war correspondent in north-west Europe, after having been discharged from the R.A. as medically unfit. At the age of 17 he was appointed leader of the Labour Youth movement in Manchester. He won Bilston in 1945 and became Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning and secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party’s Common Wealth Group.

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