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 : Thirsk and Malton

CANDIDATE : Geffen

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Geffen was born in 1920, and is solicitor to the Durham Miners’ Association, joining the Labour Party when he was 15, Mr. Geffen is a former political education officer of Hampstead Labour Party, a member of the Haldane and Fabian Societies, and organizing secretary of the latter’s Durham branch. He has been a member of the London University branch of the Labour Party since 1945, and is a member of the National Union of Mineworkers (Durham area). He served with the Royal Artillery, 1940-45, and was later engaged in full-time educational work with the Army Educational Corps.

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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 : Hemsworth

CANDIDATE : Holmes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Horace Holmes was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Fuel and Power in the last Parliament. He started work at 13 as a miner and served for many years as an official in the miners’union. He was for 23 years a member of Royston R.D.C. and for 11 years sat on the West Riding County Council. He is 59, and won the D.C.M. in the war. He was first returned to Parliament unopposed at a by-election at Hemsworth in 1946. His majority this time was the largest in the election.

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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 : Skipton

CANDIDATE : Roberts

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. J. Roberts was born in the Glamorganshire mining village of Nelson in 1915 and is the son of a miner. He obtained a B.A. degree with first-class honours in economics and political science at Cardiff University, and became a teacher. Before the war he was a master at Skipton Grammar School, and is a staff tutor at University College, Hull. He served in the Army during the war.

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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 : Cardiff West

CANDIDATE : Hallinan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. S. Hallinan is 54, and a solicitor. He fought Central Cardiff in 1945. A former member of Cardiff City Council, he was deputy lord mayor in 1944-45. He is chairman of West Cardiff Conservative Association, and of the Wales and Monmouth?hire Conservative Clubs Council. During the war he commanded the 21st Glamorgan (Cardiff) Battalion, Home Guard.

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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 : Swansea West

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Lewis Jones was member for the division from 1931 until his defeat in 1945. He has been secretary of the South Wales Siemens Steel Association, and represented Wales on the National Health Insurance Joint Committee.

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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 : Cardiganshire

CANDIDATE : Little

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. G. S. R. Little, 42, qualified as a doctor in 1930, having trained at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. For 14 years he practised at Worksop, Notts, but early in 1947 he gave up medical practice and took up farming near Cardigan. During the war he took an active part in A.R.P. and was acting medical officer of health.

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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 : Flintshire West

CANDIDATE : Birch

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Nigel Birch, elected for the Flintshire division in 1945, was born in 1906 and educated at Eton. He was in business until 1939, and served throughout the war on the •General Staff, being promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1944. Since entering Parliament he has specialized in financial subjects and has toured western Germany and Africa.

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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 : Neath

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Thomas, West Wales organizer of the Communist Party, went to America in 1912 when he was five, and was educated there and in Canada. Returning in 1924, he took an engineering course at Swansea University. While working in the mines, he won a scholarship to London Labour College, and was one of nine expelled for their political views. ?e joined the Communists and oiganized three ” hunger ” marches to London.

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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 : Ebbw Vale

CANDIDATE : Bevan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, has sat in Parliament for the Ebbw Vale division since 1929. He was born in Tredegar in 1897 and started work in the Tredegar collieries at an early age. Prominent in trade union affairs, he was soon on the executive of the South Wales Miners’ Federation, gained a seat on the county council, and in 1921 was a leader of demonstrations of unemployed seeking assistance from the local Poor Law authorities. During the war he became conspicuous for his criticisms of the Coalition Government. His appointment as Minister of Health when the last Government took office was his first Government post.

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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 : Aberdeen South

CANDIDATE : Tweedsmuir

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lady Tweedsmuir was unsuccessful in North Aberdeen in the 1945 election, but a year later won this constituency in a by-election. Her first husband, Sir Arthur Grant, was killed in action with the Grenadier Guards in Normandy, and she married Lord Tweedsmuir in 1948. Born in 1915, Lady Tweedsmuir was educated in England, Germany, and France. She is a governor of the British Film Institute.

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