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 : Bebington

CANDIDATE : White

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Graham White has had a long career in Parliament, where he became a recognized spokesman for the Liberals on financial and economic affairs. He sat for Birkenhead East in the 1922 Parliament, was defeated in 1924, and regained the seat in 1929, and held it until 1945. Appointed Assistant Postmaster-General in 1931, he resigned the year after when the National Government introduced a general measure of protection. He was a member of the Curtis Committee, and one of the M.P.s who visited Buchenwald camp in 1945. Born in 1880, he is a stockbroker.

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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 : Birmingham Aston

CANDIDATE : Embrey

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Embrey is keenly interested in the British Legion. Aged 41, he is employed by a wge firm as a costs accountant. He was a territorial before the war and was at Dunkirk with h wth the 8th Bn., The Royal Warwickshire K-egiment.

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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 : Birmingham King’s Norton

CANDIDATE : Bradbeer

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. F. Bradbeer was born in London in 1890. He has given many years of public service to Birmingham. Educated at King’s College and the London School of Economics, he was for nine years in the chief accountant’s office of the Great Northern Railway. He then entered the employment of Cadbury Bros., Bournville, and was secretary of the works council. For six years from 1925, he served on the Birmingham City Council, and then after a lapse of two years was again elected. He became an alderman in 1945 and was Lord Mayor in 1946-47.

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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 : Birmingham Stechford

CANDIDATE : Pitt

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss E. Pitt is the first woman to contest a Birmingham constituency in the Conservative interest. A resident in the Stechford division, she was born in Birmingham in 1906. She is an industrial welfare officer, and a member of the Birmingham City Council and is also active in women’s and youth organizations.

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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 : Blyth

CANDIDATE : Amos

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. J. Amos (40) was educated at the Essex County High School. He entered the building trade at the age of 14 and eventually became building manager to a large firm in the north-east. He designed the Missions to Seamen Memorial at Hartlepool, the first to be built after the 1939-45 war. He took an active interest in local government work at Leyton.

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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 : Bradford Central

CANDIDATE : Webb

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Maurice Webb, member for the division since 1945, was born in 1904, joined the Labour Party in 1922 and was for many years a well-known political journalist before entering Parliament. From 1929 to 1935 he was propaganda officer for the Labour Party. He was chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party in the last Parliament.

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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 : Brentford and Chiswick

CANDIDATE : Parker

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Parker is the organizer of the Brentford and Chiswick Communist Party. He is 33, unmarried, and a sheet metal worker. Early in the war, he was working in aircraft production, but was later called up and served in the R.A.F. He joined the Communist Party in 1940.

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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 : Bristol North West

CANDIDATE : Morris

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Morris, 30 years old, began work as a farm labourer at 14 but later entered journalism and became editor of a journal devoted to agricultural interests. He served in the last war as correspondent with the Canadian Army, and later was a gunner in the Merchant Navy. Afterwards he became personal assistant to Mr. E. Shinwell. He is now the head of a publishing firm.

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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 : Burnley

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. H. Wilson was the first Conservative candidate in Burnley since 1929. Aged 52, he is a member of Liverpool City Council and the chairman and managing director of retail stores and five companies in the Liverpool area. He is vice-chairman and one of the founders of Liverpool Industrial Advisory Council.

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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 : Chesterfield

CANDIDATE : Hartington

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

The Marquess of Hartington, who contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1945, is the °nly surviving son of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. Aged 30, he was educated at tton and Cambridge, and from 1940 to 1946 served in the Coldstream Guards and was promoted to a captaincy and awarded the M.C. l°r gallantry and distinguished service in the Italian campaign. He lives at Bakewell and is a member of the Bakewell rural district council.

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