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 : Pontypool

CANDIDATE : Mathias

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. R. Mathias was born at Pont-newydd(Mon.)in 1916. He served in the Royal Navy during the last war and attained the rank of lieutenant-commander at the age of 26. On demobilization he became a chief maintenance officer for Unrra. Later he worked in Australia with a firm of consulting engineers, and afterwards returned to this country in connexion with machinery for a new paper mill company in Australia.

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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 : Dundee East

CANDIDATE : Cook

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. F. Cook, an electrician, was elected senior member for Dundee in 1945. He is 41. Formerly a member of the I.L.P. and the Scottish Socialist Party, he joined the Labour Party in 1933. A lecturer in economics and industrial history for the National Council of Labour Colleges, he has been Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps and Mr.Harold Wilson at the Board of Trade.

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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 : Edinburgh Leith

CANDIDATE : Hoy

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. Hoy, who won the seat from Mr. Ernest Brown in 1945, is an interior decorator, aged 41, who went to an elementary school and Causewayside and Sciennes, Edinburgh. He joined the Royal Corps of Signals and served with the Eighth Army in Africa and the B.L.A. in Europe. He has served as Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Under-Secretaiy of State for War. He was a member of the Parliamentary delegation to Germany.

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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 : Glasgow Bridgeton

CANDIDATE : Irwin

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Irwin, aged 21, is one of the youngest candidates in Scotland. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and Oxford and has spoken in many by-elections.

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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 : Glasgow Govan

CANDIDATE : Davis

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Davis was selected as the Labour candidate in place of Mr. Neil Maclean, who had represented the constituency since 1918 and was willing to stand again but was regarded as being too old at 75. Aged 48, and an advertising consultant, Mr. Davis has been a member of Glasgow Corporation since 1935.

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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 : Glasgow Scotstoun

CANDIDATE : McIlhone

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. McIlhone is 47 and Glasgow organizer of the Communist Party, which he joined in 1923. He is chairman of the Scottish Tenants’ Association.

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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 : Glasgow Woodside

CANDIDATE : Woodside

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. L. Woodside, son of a former Glasgow minister, is a sales representative of an electric cable firm. In 1914 he emigrated to Canada, but returned the next year to fight with the Canadian forces, and later held a commission in The Highland Light Infantry.

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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 : Aberdeenshire East

CANDIDATE : McKenzie

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. McKenzie, a civil engineer on the staff of British Railways, is a graduate of Glasgow University. Aged 23, he was one of the youngest candidates in Scotland—a year younger than Mr. Boothby when he first won the seat.

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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 : Bute and North Ayrshire

CANDIDATE : Aitken

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Aitken, of Ardrossan, was born in 1903, and is a foreman employed by an oil refining company. A former chairman of the Ayr Burghs Labour Party, for the last 10 years he has been organizing secretary on the National Council of Labour Colleges.

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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 : Caithness and Sutherland

CANDIDATE : Robertson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir David Robertson, member for Streatham from 1939, was adopted for this constituency after the local Unionist Association had withdrawn support for the sitting member, Mr. E. L. Gandar Dower. Born 60 years ago in Glasgow, he was educated at Allan Glen’s Schools and Glasgow University. He served in the Ministry of Food at the end of the first war and was chief accountant to the Ministry at the Paris Peace Conference. Afterwards he became managing director of fish and cold storage companies.

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