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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Cheetham Constituency – Biography of Quas-Cohen

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Cheetham Constituency – Biography of Quas-Cohen

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Cheetham

    CANDIDATE : Quas-Cohen

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. K. A. Quas-Cohen is 37, and was educated at Clifton and Manchester University, where before the war he was chairman of the Conservative Undergraduates’ Association. In 1940 he transferred from the Territorial Army to the Commandos. Captured in France, he made three attempts before he succeeded in escaping to the United States forces. He qualified as a cost accountant during captivity, and is now a Manchester manufacturer.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Withington Constituency – Biography of Wright

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Withington Constituency – Biography of Wright

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Withington

    CANDIDATE : Wright

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. T. Wright, cotton trade union official and president of the Amalgamated Weavers’ Association, is 46, and was a member of Ashton-under-Lyne Borough Council for 12 years. He has visited the Continent with various missions and went to the United States in 1947 with the party which investigated time study methods of trade unions and employers in industry there. He was a member of the Royal Commission on the cotton industry.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Mitcham Constituency – Biography of Carr

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Mitcham Constituency – Biography of Carr

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Mitcham

    CANDIDATE : Carr

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. R. Carr, who is 33, went to Cambridge. He is a director of research and development for a London firm of aluminium castings and metal plastics makers. He is a member of the executive and mechanical committees of the Light Metal Appliances Association, and of the Buildings Applications Committee of the Aluminium Development Association. He is a former chairman of the Barnet Young Conservatives.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle upon Tyne West Constituency – Biography of Popplewell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle upon Tyne West Constituency – Biography of Popplewell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newcastle upon Tyne West

    CANDIDATE : Popplewell

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Popplewell (50) was Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in the last Government. He captured West Newcastle from the Conserva-tiyes at the 1945 election with a majority of 8,131 in a straight fight. He was a signalman in the railway service and for 18 years was associated with local government. During the war he served with the Royal Marine Artillery and won the Belgian Croix de Guerre.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nottingham East Constituency – Biography of Fletcher

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nottingham East Constituency – Biography of Fletcher

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nottingham East

    CANDIDATE : Fletcher

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. A. B. Fletcher, born in 1911, contested Macclesfield unsuccessfully in 1945. At present an export manager in the textile industry and commanding a Leicestershire Territorial regiment, he served during the late war with the Royal Horse Artillery in the Middle East, Italy and Austria. He has been chairman of the National League of Young Liberals and president of the Lancashire and Cheshire Young Liberals.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Oldham West Constituency – Biography of Middleton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Oldham West Constituency – Biography of Middleton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Oldham West

    CANDIDATE : Middleton

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. T. Middleton is 62 years of age and a native of Oldham. He has been a solicitor since 1914, and was educated at Oldham Grammar School, of which he is now deputy chairman. He has twice unsuccessfully contested Oldham, and was a member of the town council during the war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poole Constituency – Biography of Ridgway

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poole Constituency – Biography of Ridgway

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Poole

    CANDIDATE : Ridgway

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. Ridgway has served on the executive committee of the Home Counties Liberal Association. Aged 48, he is a chartered surveyor and valuer, and during the war he supervised war damage repairs in London and trained A.T.C. cadets for air crew duties.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Pudsey Constituency – Biography of Collings

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Pudsey Constituency – Biography of Collings

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Pudsey

    CANDIDATE : Collings

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. G. Collings was sponsored by the Railway Clerks’ Association, of the executive of which he is a member. He is employed on the scientific staff of the London Passenger Transport Board, and has been on many negotiating committees in connexion with the railway service.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Romford Constituency – Biography of Lockwood

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Romford Constituency – Biography of Lockwood

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Romford

    CANDIDATE : Lockwood

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. J. C. Lockwood was M.P. for Central Hackney, 1931-35. He was unsuccessful at a by-election at Bexley in 1946. He is a barrister. In the first world war he served with The Essex Regiment and the Coldstream Guards, and was legal adviser to Shaef in the second. He is treasurer of the R.S.P.C.A., and a member of the Diocesan Finance Committee and of the London-over-the-Border Committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Helens Constituency – Biography of Hall-Davis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Helens Constituency – Biography of Hall-Davis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : St Helens

    CANDIDATE : Hall-Davis

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. G. F. Hall-Davis, head brewer and a director of a Burnley brewery, was born in Bolton in 1924. He served in the Royal Artillery during the last war. He has filled many offices in the Young Conservative movement, and was vice-chairman of its national committee from 1946 to 1948. He is area chairman of the committee for Lancashire, Cheshire and Westmorland, and has served on the executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations since 1946.

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