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 : Southend East

CANDIDATE : Runciman

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. J. G. Runciman is a retired Army officer, who was born in 1895 and educated at Kirkwall Burgh School and Glasgow University. He served in the Royal Scots and Royal Tank Regiment, 1915-47. He is secretary to the Essex Growers’ Trading Association. A relative of the late Viscount Runciman, the Liberal statesman, he was first chairman of the Southend East Liberal Association.

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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 : Stockport North

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. Evans, who is 57 and was born in North Wales, lives at Purley, Surrey. A barrister, he lived from 1921 until 1942 in Burma, where he was a magistrate and later a judge. Returning to England, he became a legal assistant at the Board of Trade and later at the Treasury, resigning to fight the 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 : Stretford

CANDIDATE : Cawley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. R. Cawley, second son of Lord Cawley, was born in 1915 and educated at Eton and Oxford. He served in the Royal Corps of Signals until 1942, when he was seconded to the Ministry of Supply as a chemical inspector in explosives factories. After the war he investigated captured German documents dealing with secret weapons and rocket appliances and subsequently reopened a family business of bleachers, dyers and printers, of which he is managing director.

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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 : Torquay

CANDIDATE : Townend

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. S. Townend, who was educated at St. Edmund’s School, Canterbury, and Brase-nose College, Oxford, was commissioned in 1933, and held the appointment of A.Q.M.G. during the war. He is an English international and Empire Games champion. He is now a director of an international publishing company and of an international school in Switzerland and a director and founder of the Anglo-Swiss Society of Great Britain. He was for 10 years on Paddington 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 : Wallasey

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. W. Jones was born at Chester in 1905, and is managing director of a firm of wholesale merchants. He lives at Hoole, near Chester, where he is a member of the council, of which he was chairman in 1941. He is an official of the Congregational Church and was formerly joint secretary of the Chester Free Church 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 : Warrington

CANDIDATE : Grady

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Grady began work in a coalmine at the age of 14. After service in the last war he was employed by the Air Ministry at Burtonwood Air Base. He is a delegate of the Heating and Domestic Engineers’ Union local branch to Warrington Trades 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 : West Ham North

CANDIDATE : Lewis

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Arthur Lewis, born in 1917, began work as a fitter with the City of London Corporation at the age of 16 ; he became a full-time trade union organizer, and later signed the first trade union agreement in the catering industry and in six months enrolled 20,000 new trade unionists in the West End of London. He was first elected to Parliament as member for Upton in 1945.

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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 : Willesden West

CANDIDATE : Rewcastle

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. Genevieve Rewcastle was the first woman doctor in the Royal Navy, and was Medical Superintendent of the W.R.N.S. from 1939 to 1946. She now specializes in diseases of women and children. From 1934 to 1938 she was president of the Catholic Women’s League, and in 1945-47 chairman of the Nationa Board of Catholic Women. A member of Westminster City Council, she is also on the L.C.C. Housing 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 : Wood Green

CANDIDATE : Irving

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Irving, a former chairman of the Middlesex County Council, became M.P. for North Tottenham in December, 1945, after having been agent there for Mr. R. C. (now Lord) Morrison. The constituency disappeared under the new distribution. Born on April 1, 1892, he started work as a stevedore at Workington docks and later,was a trade union organizer. He was on the committee responsible for merging 13 unions into the Transport and General Workers Union. He was a borough councillor at 23.

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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 : Bedfordshire Mid

CANDIDATE : Lennox-Boyd

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. T. Lennox-Boyd has represented this division since 1931. Born in 1904, he was educated at Sherborne and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was president of 1 the Union. When 33, he became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, and in the wartime Government successively held the offices of Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministries of Home Security, of Food, and of Aircraft Production, except for two years in the R.N.V.R. He is an authority on civil aviation and colonial affairs.

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