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 : Manchester Clayton

CANDIDATE : Thorneycroft

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Thorneycroft, who was elected for Clayton in a by-election in 1942 and re-elected in 1945, is a hairdresser and a former president of the National Federation of Hairdressers. Born in 1892, he served in the 1914-18 war, and in 1923 was elected to Manchester City Council, of which he is an alderman. A former Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for Air, he is also on the Police Counc.l.

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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 : Manchester Wythenshawe

CANDIDATE : Hill

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. E. Hill, who has lived all her life in Manchester and has been a member of the city council for 14 years, is 52. Since 1943 she has been Manchester Organizer of the W.V.S. She has also been chairman of the local Poppy Fund Committee, the Health Committee?of the city council, and the South Manchester Hospital Management 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 : Mitcham

CANDIDATE : Page

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss D. Page is 45 years of age and was educated at Highbury Hill School and Bedford College. From 1939 to October, 1941, she was leader of the ambulance unit in Enfield and served with the V.A.D. in local hospitals. In 1942 she joined the B.B.C. European news service. After the war she became assistant to the Press attache at the Yugoslav Embassy and later private secretary to trie Ambassador, from which position she resigned when the Ambassador was recalled to Belgrade.

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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 : Newcastle upon Tyne West

CANDIDATE : McNair

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. McNair, aged 27, is an engineer. At 19 he joined the Communist Party. During the war, he served in Greece and Egypt. In 1949 he was a delegate to the World Peace Congress in Paris.

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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 : Nottingham North West

CANDIDATE : Gardner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Gardner, an architect and surveyor for a Nottingham firm of brewers, was educated at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic School, Nottingham, and Nottingham University College, and is 48. He is an office holder in several ex-service men’s organizations, and a keen sportsman. In the war he was employed on anti-submarine devices and mine laying.

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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 : Oxford

CANDIDATE : Hogg

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Quintin Hogg, born in 1907, the eldest son of Viscount Hail-sham, entered Parliament in 1938. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, was President of the Union in 1929, and later was called to the Bar. He was commissioned in The Rifle Brigade in 1939 and served in the Middle East and was wounded in the Western Desert in 1941. In the last weeks of the Coalition Government he was appointed joint Under-Secretary for Air, a post which he also held in the ” caretaker ” Government. He is the author of several works on legal and political affairs.

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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 : Portsmouth Langstone

CANDIDATE : Knight

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Knight, born 1891, is national organizer of the National Seamen’s Union. Has been an errand boy, an engine cleaner on the G.W.R. at Newport (Mon.), a docker, and a seaman. He joined the I.L.P. in 1910 and transferred in 1933 to the Labour Party, and is a member of its national executive. In 1942 he was district secretary for the Mersey area of the National Seamen’s Union.

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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 : Reading North

CANDIDATE : Mackay

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Ronald Mackay sat for North-West Hull in the 1945 Parliament. During the war he joined the Common Wealth Party and became its national chairman, but rejoined Labour in 1944. Aged 46, he was born in Australia and is a London solicitor. He is a prominent advocate of European cooperation, and was a member of the British delegation to Strasbourg last year.

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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 : Romford

CANDIDATE : Clarke

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Clarke, aged 33, was educated at Oldham Hulme Grammar School and Manchester University, where he was president of the Union. He is a physicist, and during the war worked on research for the Ministry of Supply. He is deputy secretary of the Institute of Physics.

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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 : Salford East

CANDIDATE : Hardy

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. Hardy, a native of Salford, began work as a barber’s boy and organized a local hairdressers’ union. Entering the Salford City Council in 1922, he is a former mayor, and is ” father ” of that body. He is area secretary of the Hospital and Welfare Services Union. He is aged 60, and was first elected in 1945 for Salford South.

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