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 : Bedfordshire Mid

CANDIDATE : Howell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Howell contested Mid-Bedfordshire in 1945, polling only 1,881 votes fewer than Mr. Lennox-Boyd. An active trade unionist in Dunstable, he is a bookbinder and chairman of Luton Trades Council. He was one of the founders of the Dunstable Labour Party. During the war he served with S.E.A.C.

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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 : Wokingham

CANDIDATE : Hubble

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. Hubble is a local man, aged 42, in business as an exporter and importer. Educated at Dulwich, he has travelled in Europe considerably and has written pamphlets on civics, economics, and municipal affairs. His particular interest is prison welfare, and he is an official visitor to Reading Gaol, where he gives talks on current affairs. He is chairman of the divisional Labour Party and secretary of Berks Federation of Labour Parties.

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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 : Cambridgeshire

CANDIDATE : Stubbs

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Stubbs, who won this seat in 1945, is a native of Yorkshire, born in 1877. He went to Cambridge as a printing machinist in 1914 and two years later became president of the Cambridge Trades Council and Labour Party. After 19 years on the Cambridge borough council he was made an alderman in 1942, in which year he was also appointed an alderman of the county council. He is chairman of the workers’ side of the Agricultural Wages 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 : Northwich

CANDIDATE : Foster

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. G. Foster, barrister and specialist in international law, was elected in 1945. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and was a Fellow of All Souls. Called to the Bar in 1927, he was appointed Recorder of Dudley in 1936 and of Oxford in 1938. He served at the British Embassy in Washington handling the legal side of lend-lease, and was later a brigadier on Gen. Eisenhower’s staff in Normandy. He is 43.

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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 : Falmouth and Camborne

CANDIDATE : Hayman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. H. Hayman was born in Truro in 1894, and is the son of a local saddler? He is district education officer for Redruth and has held many offices in the National Association of Local Government Officers, and was first staff representative for Cornwall on the S.W. provincial 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 : Whitehaven

CANDIDATE : Nunn

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Nunn was born in Highgate, Middlesex, in 1879, and was educated at King’s College, London, Entering the Civil Service he was in 1908 appointed advisor to the Siamese Government on Customs and Excise, retiring in 1925 and settling in Pontiland, Northumberland. He sat as M.P. for Whitehaven from 1931 to 1935, and for Newcastle West from 1940 to 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 : Derbyshire North East

CANDIDATE : Shaw

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. R. Shaw was called to the Bar in 1930 and practised for three years on the North-Eastern Circuit, but is now engaged in the pottery trade. He is 44 years old and for the past 12 years has lived at Old Brampton, Chesterfield.

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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 : Tiverton

CANDIDATE : Amory

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Heathcoat Amory became M.P. for the division in 1945 in succession to Sir G. Acland Troyte. Born in 1899 and educated at Eton and Oxford, he is a silk manufacturer and banker. A member of Devon County Council since 1932, he has also served on many other local government bodies, and is a governor of Blundell’s School and a former joint master of the Tiverton Foxhounds. For 20 years he was a Territorial officer, and from 1940 to 1945 was on the General Staff, and was in action at Salerno. In the Arnhem airborne operations he was severely wounded and taken prisoner.

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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 : Dorset West

CANDIDATE : Digby

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Wingfield Digby, aged 39, has represented West Dorset for the last eight and a half years, and was appointed a Conservative Whip in 1948. A barrister, he served in the Army throughout the war and rose to the rank of major. He was one of the originators of the Design for Freedom movement and its treasurer, and was a member of the Tory Reform Committee from its formation until he became a Whip.

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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 : Easington

CANDIDATE : Macfarlane

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. A. Macfarlane studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and is aged 41. He is a member of a West Hartlepool firm of forwarding agents, and a member of the Tees and Hartlepool branch of the National Docks Labour Board and of Hartlepool Dock Advisory Committee. During the war he served in the Army and reached the rank of major.

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