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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham South Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham South 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 : Lewisham South

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. W. Jones, aged 49, is a London bus “river. He was secretary of the London Busmen’s Rank and File Movement, 1932-37, and took a leading part in the strike in 1937. Expelled from the Transport and General Workers’ Union in 1937, he was readmitted in ^ 38, and became chairman of the Central Bus Committee in 1944. He was elected to the executive committee in 1943, but the rule debarring Communists from holding office in the union prevented his sitting on the committee. He is vice-chairman of the London District Committee of the Communist Party.

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

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Marylebone Constituency – Biography of Wakefield

    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 : Wakefield

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir W. Wavell Wakefield became M.P. for this division in 1945, after having represented Swindon in Parliament since 1935. He was educated at Sedbergh and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is a company director and on the executive of the National Union of j Manufacturers. Now 51, he is a former captain of England, Cambridge University, Middlesex, the R.A.F., and the Harlequins, and is vice-president of the Rugby Football Union.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stepney Constituency – Biography of Solomon

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stepney Constituency – Biography of Solomon

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stepney

    CANDIDATE : Solomon

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Cmdr. M. H. B. Solomon, is a company director in the export trade. Born in 1915, he was educated at Rugby and Cambridge, and served in the R.N.V.R. in the war, winning the D.S.C. for service in motor torpedo boats at Dunkirk and Tobruk. He was also decorated for his part in underground operations in Greece during the German occupation.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Putney Constituency – Biography of Alton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Putney Constituency – Biography of Alton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Putney

    CANDIDATE : Alton

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. B. Alton was educated at Brighton College and London University, and is 49. In the war he rose from private to major on trie General Staff. He is a director of several companies, and was responsible during the war for a number of legal publications, particularly on early war-time legislation. For five years he was president of Wembley Liberal Association.

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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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Hall Green Constituency – Biography of Crehan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Hall Green Constituency – Biography of Crehan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Hall Green

    CANDIDATE : Crehan

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. Crehan came to Birmingham as a schoolboy from Edinburgh, where he was born in 1919. From a secondary school he passed to Birmingham University, where he graduated M.A. with honours in English for a thesis on George Bernard Shaw. He has since had a varied experience in Post Office work, salesmanship, teaching, lecturing, and writing. He is a member of Staffs County Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Perry Barr Constituency – Biography of Hinks

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Perry Barr Constituency – Biography of Hinks

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Perry Barr

    CANDIDATE : Hinks

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. Frances N. Hinks, a local housewife, is president of Birmingham Women’s Liberal Association. She recently spent a month in the British zone in Western Germany.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackburn East Constituency – Biography of Hague

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackburn East Constituency – Biography of Hague

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blackburn East

    CANDIDATE : Hague

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Hague is a native of Blackpool and was born in 1922- Before the war he worked «i the Blackpool Education Department and in */°cal bank, joining the Army in 1941. He was discharged in March, 1944, after injury to a if8 during an assault course. After the war “e secured a LL.B. degree at London Univer-elty, and is a barrister on the Northern Circuit. ?’ is chairman of Blackpool South Liberal l^°5,iation and president of the Lancashire *nQ Cheshire Young Liberals Federation.

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