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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cardiganshire Constituency – Biography of Morgan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cardiganshire Constituency – Biography of Morgan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cardiganshire

    CANDIDATE : Morgan

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. I. Morgan who is a trained economist, graduated at the University College of Wales. While a student there he produced a history of the college. He is a member of the council and court of the University College of Wales and of the National Library of Wales, and lectures on economics and international affairs.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Flintshire East Constituency – Biography of Waterhouse

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Flintshire East Constituency – Biography of Waterhouse

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Flintshire East

    CANDIDATE : Waterhouse

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. S. G. Waterhouse, who was born in 1918, is a general manager of a firm in the woollen industry. He took a degree in commerce at London University and won the Sir Ernest Cassel travelling scholarship in commerce, which he used to visit the United States to study American selling methods. He served during the war on the staff at headquarters of the 21st Army Group and the British Army of the Rhine.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Neath Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Neath Constituency – Biography of Jones

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Neath

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Dr. O. Vaughan Jones, 57, is the son of a Congregational minister. He has been active in the Liberal Party in North Wales for many years, and is a member of the executive of the Welsh Liberal Party. He has practised as a doctor for 23 years, and been public assistance medical officer, Caernarvonshire, and medical officer to North Wales Teachers’ Training College.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedwellty Constituency – Biography of Pitman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedwellty Constituency – Biography of Pitman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bedwellty

    CANDIDATE : Pitman

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. C. Pitman is the grandson of the retiring Labour member, Sir Charles Edwards. A former minister, he became chief instructor under the Army educational scheme at the holding unit of The Royal Sussex and The Royal Berkshire Regiments. He was lately secretary and treasurer of the Welsh Conservative M.P.s’ and Prospective Candidates’ Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdeen North Constituency – Biography of Cooney

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdeen North Constituency – Biography of Cooney

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aberdeen North

    CANDIDATE : Cooney

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Cooney is a local Communist leader. He was nominated to contest Greenock in 1941 but withdrew.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Central Constituency – Biography of Watt

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Central Constituency – Biography of Watt

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh Central

    CANDIDATE : Watt

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. C. Watt, K..C, a native of Berwickshire, is 53, and was elected for Central Edinburgh at a by-election in 1941, losing the seat in 1945. Graduating at Edinburgh University, he served his law apprenticeship in Glasgow and was called to the Scottish Bar in 1925. From 1940 to 1946, he was a junior counsel to the Treasury in Scotl?nd. As an officer of the K.O.S.B., he served in France and Italy during the war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh South Constituency – Biography of Darling

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh South Constituency – Biography of Darling

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh South

    CANDIDATE : Darling

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir William Darling, a former lord-provost and city treasurer of Edinburgh, is proprietor of a drapery store and two bookshops in the city and director of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company. Born in 1885, he went to James Gilles-pie’s School, Daniel Stewart’s School, and Heriot-Watt College. He is the author of several publications, including ” The Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller.”

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Central Constituency – Biography of Hutchison

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Central Constituency – Biography of Hutchison

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Central

    CANDIDATE : Hutchison

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. J. R. H. Hutchison, member for the division from 1945 to the dissolution, is a shipowner who for many years was the Glasgow representative in the Chamber of Shipping. A veteran of the 1914-18 war, in which he served with the Lanarkshire Yeomanry, he worked with the underground movement in France in the 1939-45 war, and as his features were well known to the Germans he submitted to surgical treatment which made a permanent alteration. Born in 1893, he was educated at Harrow.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Kelvingrove Constituency – Biography of Grieve

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Kelvingrove Constituency – Biography of Grieve

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Kelvingrove

    CANDIDATE : Grieve

    PARTY : Scot. Nat.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. M. Grieve is a Scottish poet and author whose works are well known under his pen name of Hugh MacDiarmid. He is a staunch supporter of everything Scottish.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Springburn Constituency – Biography of McNicol

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Springburn Constituency – Biography of McNicol

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Springburn

    CANDIDATE : McNicol

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. McNicol, a chartered accountant, fought the seat in 1935 and is a former president of the Springburn Unionist Association. He served in the 1914-18 war with The Highland Light Infantry and was the first to rejoin his battalion in 1939, later serving as a lieutenant-colonel in the European campaign.

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