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 : Southampton Itchen

CANDIDATE : Morley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Morley represented Southampton from 1929 to 1931 and won a seat there again in 1945. Born in 1892, he spent his life in the teaching profession and retired as a head master. He is a past president of the National Union of Teachers, and governor of University College, Southampton (where he was trained), and a member of the Southampton education 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 : Southport

CANDIDATE : Bonney

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. P. Bonney, a Southport solicitor and a vice-president of the local Labour Party, was born at Preston in 1909. He served with a Blackpool firm of solicitors, was deputy coroner for South Worcestershire, and after working in Sheffield and Liverpool now practises at Southport.

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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 : Stoke-on-Trent Central

CANDIDATE : Hancock

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Hancock, aged 50, was’chief electric?l engineer of the royal Ordnance factory at *->wynnerton during the war, and is now managing director of a commercial company, formerly a Liberal, he joined the Conservative Party in 1931.% He served many years on Moke-on-Trent City! Council and was made an alderman in^l949.

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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 : Sutton and Cheam

CANDIDATE : Judd

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. H. O. Judd, born in 1902, is the daughter of a well-known Scottish missionary (the Rev. F. Ashcroft) and the wife of Mr. C. W. Judd, secretary of the United Nations Association. She graduated with honours at Edinburgh University in 1925 and afterwards was occupied with teaching and other social activities. She is interested in training colonial students in welfare developments in the Colonies.

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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 : Tynemouth

CANDIDATE : Colman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss G. Colman, member for the division in the last Parliament, was born in 1892, the daughter of a canon of the Church of England and was brought up in a Conservative environment, but while at Newnham College, Cambridge, she adopted Socialism. Later she became a tutor in Ruskin College and a staff tutor in London University. During the war she worked as a temporary Civil servant with the Ministry of Labour and 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 : Walthamstow West

CANDIDATE : Attlee

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Clement Attlee, Prime Minister since 1945, and now in his sixty-eighth year, represented Limehouse in Parliament continuously from 1922 until the dissolution. He was educated at Haileybury and Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1905. As secretary of Toynbee Hall he gained a wide knowledge of life among the people of East London, and he was for a year Mayor of Stepney. During the 1914-18 war he served in The South Lancashire Regiment and the Tank Corps, and retired in 1919 with the rank of major. In the first Labour Government he became Under-Secretary of State for War and in the second was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Postmaster-General. From 1935 to 1940 he was Leader of the Opposition in the House, but with the formation of the National Government he became, first, Lord Privy Seal, and later Secretary of State for the Dominions and Lord President of the Council. From 1942 he was Deputy Prime Minister. When the Labour Party were returned to power he became Prime Minister and, for a time, combined that office with the post of Minister of Defence. An outstanding feature of his period of office was the grant of self-government to India and the completion of the legislative programme included in the Labour Party manifesto at the 1945 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 : Wembley North

CANDIDATE : Dann

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Dann, an average-adjuster, was educated at Oxford and was president of the Oxford University Liberal Club in 1948. He is a member of the Liberal Party Council. Commissioned in The Welsh Guards during the war, he served in Italy and Austria with the 1st Guards Brigade. He was born in 1924.

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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 : Wigan

CANDIDATE : Dowling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Dowling contested the 1948 by-election. He is 47, a native of Wigan, and a teacher at a local school. A member of Wigan Borough Council for 18 years, he is an alderman and was mayor in 1943-44. He is on the local executive of the National Union of Teachers and is interested in social work and sport.

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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 : Wolverhampton South West

CANDIDATE : Powell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. Powell is a Birmingham man, and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. For two years he was Professor of Greek at Sydney University. During the war he saw service with the Army, and was a brigadier. After the war he joined the Conservative Party secretariat and was joint head of the home affairs section.

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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 : York

CANDIDATE : Hylton-Foster

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. B. Hylton-Foster, K.C.,aged 44, is the son-in-law of the Speaker. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is Recorder of Hudders-field and Chancellor of the Dioceses of Ripon and Durham. He was legal secretary to Lord Finlay at the Permanent Court of International Justice, 1928, and deputy judge advocate in North Africa and Italy during the war.

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