CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Morpeth
CANDIDATE : Turnbull
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. Turnbull, 34 years of age, is a steel worker at Consett. He started life as an office boy, and later transferred to the steel mills, where he still works. He is a member of the Consett Urban District Council.
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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 : Rushcliffe
CANDIDATE : Redmayne
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Col. M. Redmayne, who was born in 1910, is managing director of a No?tingham firm. During the war he commanded the 14th Battalion of The Sherwood Foresters and served at Anzio. In 1944 he formed and commanded the 66th Infantry Brigade.
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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 : Wrekin, The
CANDIDATE : Thomas
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. I. O. Thomas, born in 1898, went to an elementary school, and started work as a barber’s lather boy at the age of 10. After a period in the tinplate industry he went into the railway service as an engine cleaner. He won a National Union of Rail-waymen scholarship to London Labour College, and became a member of the N.U.R. headquarters staff. He has been a member of Battersea Borough Council and the L.C.C.
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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 : Weston-super-Mare
CANDIDATE : Kew
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. A. Kew, in business as a bacon curer, has been at different times a factory worker, building trade worker, farm worker, miner, tramcar conductor, cashier, and traveller. He is well known in the West Country as a Congregational preacher.
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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 : Stafford and Stone
CANDIDATE : Swingler
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. S. T. Swingler was born on March 2, 1915, his mother being a niece of Archbishop Lord Davidson. He was educated at Stowe and New College, Oxford, where he took an honours degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. In 1936 he settled in North Staffordshire as a lecturer for the Workers’ Educational Association and the Oxford Tutorial Movements. He served with the Royal Armoured Corps in the last war, and in 1945 won Stafford from the Conservatives.
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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 : Carshalton
CANDIDATE : Sharman
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Dr. S. Sharman is a Harley Street specialist in psychiatry and was educated at Glasgow University. After holding appointments as house surgeon and house physician in voluntary and municipal hospitals, studying eye, mental, and nervous disorders he secured his specialist diploma in 1938. During the war he served as a major in the R.A.M.C. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the Royal Medico Psychological Association and of the British Medical 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 : Esher
CANDIDATE : Harvey
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Miss H. J. Harvey read economics at Newnham College, and in 1931 was appointed to the staff of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, becoming secretary of the Study Groups Department in 1935. From 1939 she was a temporary Civil servant in the Foreign Office. After the war she served with the United Nations and then joined the staff of the Royal Institute of International Affairs as British Commonwealth research secretary. She resigned this position last year to enter politics.
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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 : East Grinstead
CANDIDATE : Clarke
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Col. R. S. Clarke has been M.P. for East Grinstead since 1936. Born in 1892, he was educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge. He joined the Sussex Yeomanry in 1914 and served in Gallipoli, Egypt, and Palestine, being wounded. In 1939 he rejoined the Army and served in the Middle East and Sicily. He has extensive business interests and is a large landowner in Mid-Sussex.
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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 : Nuneaton
CANDIDATE : Spencer
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. P. G. Spencer is the wife of Mr. C. G. Spencer, the National Liberal and Conservative candidate for Barnsley. A housewife, living in the division, she is 38 years of age and was trained in public affairs at the London School of Economics. At one time she was organizing secretary of the women’s branch of the City of London Conservative Association. During the war she was engaged in work for prisoners of war. She is an officer of the British Red Cross Society.
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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 : Westmorland
CANDIDATE : Acland
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. G. D. Acland comes of a well-known Liberal family. His brother is Sir Richard Acland, Labour member for Graves-end. Aged 51, he went to Grenoble University and Trinity College, Cambridge, and afterwards joined the family paper-making concern, of which he is a working director. His special interest is international affairs.
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