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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Hallam Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Hallam Constituency – Biography of Jones

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Hallam

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. E. Jones, born in 1902, is a joiner and a shop steward, and last July became national organizer of Liberal trade unionists. He is chairman of Rotherham Liberal Association and has also been a Baptist lay preacher and a Sunday school superintendent for many years.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southall Constituency – Biography of Andrews

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southall Constituency – Biography of Andrews

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southall

    CANDIDATE : Andrews

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. T. Andrews, a motor-body maker, was born in 1898. He founded the Spelthorne Liberal Association and for 21 years has been the organizing secretary, and was Liberal agent for the Spelthorne division in the 1945 election. A sergeant-major in the Coldstream Guards in the 1914-18 war, he was an officer in the Home Guard in the last war. He is president of the Yiewsley and West Drayton branch of the United Nations Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southgate Constituency – Biography of Ellenbogen

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southgate Constituency – Biography of Ellenbogen

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southgate

    CANDIDATE : Ellenbogen

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Ellenbogen was born in Liverpool in 1917 and won many awards and distinctions at Cambridge. He served six years in the R.A.F. as an officer in the Intelligence Branch, and was later called to the Bar. He was a Bacon scholar of Gray’s Inn, and Barstow scholar of the Inns of Court. He is an author and lecturer on legal matters, as well as a practising barrister.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stockton-on-Tees Constituency – Biography of Gamble

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stockton-on-Tees Constituency – Biography of Gamble

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stockton-on-Tees

    CANDIDATE : Gamble

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. G. Gamble, aged 29 and a native of Derbyshire, is a secondary school teacher and a part-time lecturer at Dagenham Technical College. At Reading University he took a degree with honours in history and political theory. During the war he was an interpreter serving with the Free French naval forces.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sunderland South Constituency – Biography of Kitchell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sunderland South Constituency – Biography of Kitchell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sunderland South

    CANDIDATE : Kitchell

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. J. Kitchell, an optician in Newcastle, was born in 1920 and has lived on Tyneside all his life. During the war he spent six years in the Royal Navy, three of them as a rating, served with a destroyer flotilla based on West Africa, and took part in the invasion of Sicily with the naval commandos. He read theology at Cambridge after the war and graduated.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Twickenham Constituency – Biography of Stonehouse

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Twickenham Constituency – Biography of Stonehouse

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Twickenham

    CANDIDATE : Stonehouse

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Stonehouse, who was born in 1925, is studying at the London School of Economics. He joined the R.A.F. during the war, trained as a pilot, but became an education officer. As international secretary of the Association of Labour Student Organizations he has visited most European countries and the United States.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow East Constituency – Biography of Wallace

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow East Constituency – Biography of Wallace

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Walthamstow East

    CANDIDATE : Wallace

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. W. Wallace, born in 1885, has been a candidate in every General Election since 1918, at Bury until 1924, and in Walthamstow since. He represented East Walthamstow from 1929 to 1931, and from 1945. He was chairman of the Postmen’s Federation in 1918 and secretary of the outdoor grades of the Union of Post Office Workers until 1945. He is an alderman of Lambeth Borough Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wednesbury Constituency – Biography of Bowker

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wednesbury Constituency – Biography of Bowker

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wednesbury

    CANDIDATE : Bowker

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Bowker was educated at Birmingham and London universities, and practised as a land agent in the west Midlands. In the war he served with Intelligence and other military branches. Aged 36, he is a former chairman of the Worcestershire Liberal Federation.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Ham South Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Ham South Constituency – Biography of Jones

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : West Ham South

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Elwyn Jones, Parliamentary private secretary to the Attorney-General in the last Parliament is a barrister. Born on October 24, 1909, he was at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Gon-ville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil. He was assistant British prosecutor at Nuremberg war trials and at the Hamburg trial of Marshal von Manstein. He has been M.P. for Plaistow since 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton North East Constituency – Biography of Baird

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton North East Constituency – Biography of Baird

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wolverhampton North East

    CANDIDATE : Baird

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Baird won East Wolverhampton from the Liberals in 1945. Soil of a miner, he is a dental surgeon, having studied at Glasgow University and St. Mungo’s Medical College. During the 1939-45 war he served with the Army Dental Corps, in which he was a captain. Born in 1906, he joined the Labour Party in 1930, and for many years has been active in local government work.

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