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 : Perth and East Perthshire

CANDIDATE : Hughes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Hughes was born in 1911, and is a building contractor. For many years he has been a member of Dundee City Council, and was the unsuccessful Labour candidate in Perth and Kinross in 1945. Recently he was appointed chairman of the Regional Hospitals Board. When war broke out he was appointed A.R.P. controller for his native Dundee, and was awarded the O.B.E. for his services. He subsequently went into the Army and rose to the rank of captain.

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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 Lothian

CANDIDATE : Younger

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. McE. Younger was born in 1905, and is a managing director. He was in the Territorial Army and served throughout the last war. He was in the siege of Tobruk, and won the D.S.O., and with the Eighth Army during the advance from El Alamein to Tunis ; he also commanded the 14th L.A.A. Regiment in the Salerno landings. In 1948 he was elected president of the West Lothian Junior Unionist 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 : Battersea North

CANDIDATE : Maddan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Madden, aged 29, was educated at Fettes and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he read politics, philosophy, and economics. A marketing consultant, he is in charge of the North American department of the British Export Trade Research Organization.

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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 : Camberwell Peckham

CANDIDATE : Corbet

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. F. Corbett gained this seat in 1945. Born in 1900 and educated at University College, London, she became a teacher, lecturer, and barrister. She served for many years on the London County Council, and was chief whip of the party there. She was a member of the United Kingdom delegation to the United Nations in Paris in 1948.

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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 : Fulham East

CANDIDATE : Adams

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. V. Adams, barrister and author, was born in 1900 and educated at Haileybury and Cambridge. He sat for West Leeds from 1931 to 1945, and during the war was a major. While in Parliament he helped to promote the Public Urder Act to prohibit the wearing of uniforms in connexion with political objects. His name was found on Hitler’s ” black list.”

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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 : Hammersmith North

CANDIDATE : Pick

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Pick, born in 1908 and educated in Bath, spent a number of years in the building trade and property management. He is a hotel proprietor in Buckinghamshire and a member of the Travel 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 : Islington North

CANDIDATE : Burns

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. E. Burns, a railway booking clerk, was previously in the Civil Service and secretary of a local branch of the Post Office Union. Born in 1921, he was educated at a technical school and won a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge, which he left to go into the Army.

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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 : Lambeth Norwood

CANDIDATE : Chamberlain

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Chamberlain unexpectedly defeated Mr. Duncan Sandys, Minister of Works and son-in-law of Mr. Churchill in the 1945 General Election. Mr. Chamberlain was born in Islington in 1901 and won scholarships to Cambridge University. For some years he was secretary of the National Federation of Housing Societies, and afterwards joined the Miners’ Welfare Commission and later the National Hostels’ Corporation. From 1945 to )948 he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning.

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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 : Paddington North

CANDIDATE : Field

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Field is a department manager who was born in 1910 and educated at Richmond County School and London University. He contested Hampstead in 1945, when he 1 reduced the Conservative majority of over 20,000 to 1,368 ; and entered Parliament in a by-election at North Pad-dington in 1946. Elected to Hammersmith Borough Council in 1945, he was leader of the council from 1946 to 1949 : and he is a member of the Metropolitan Borough Standing Joint 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 : St Pancras North

CANDIDATE : Harvey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. Harvey, aged 29, was educated at Laverian College, Bruges, and Lyme Regis grammar School. His special interest is the young Conservative Movement in which he has served in various executive capacities, before the war he worked for a travel agency and then became export manager for a firm of lubricating oil distributors. In the war he was a wireless operator in ?he Merchant Navy.

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