CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Richmond
CANDIDATE : Westwood
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. K. Westwood, aged 39, is organizer for the National Council of Labour Colleges. He has acted as agent for the Labour candidate in previous Richmond elections. During the war he served with the Royal Marines and as a Commando.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rowley Regis and Tipton
CANDIDATE : Henderson
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Arthur Henderson, K.C., is a son of the late Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, 1929-31. He studied law at Trinity College, Cambridge, was called to the Bar in 1921 and took silk in 1939. He was M.P. for South Cardiff in 1923 and again in 1929 and represented Kingswin-ford from 1935 until its extinction in the redistribution. He held a number of junior Ministerial posts between 1940 and 1945, and in the last Government became Under-Secretary of State for India and Burma, then Minister for Commonwealth Relations, and finally Secretary of State for Air.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Attercliffe
CANDIDATE : Farris
PARTY : C. & L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. L. Farris was born in London in 1905, and at 16 went to Belgium, working in an office for 18 months. Then he went into business with his father, and in 1933 joined a Sheffield wire manufacturers, and is now managing director. He was elected to Sheffield City Council in 1945, and is a freeman of the Cutlers’ Company, and on the executive committee of the Sheffield Philharmonic Society.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Park
CANDIDATE : Pryce
PARTY : C. & L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. Pryce, a native of Derbyshire, began work at 13 as an iron moulder, and later he joined a motor manufacturing firm as a departmental manager. He held office with local Conservative associations. He became a manager of a Sheffield firm of spring makers in 1948. He is a former memb?r of Ilford Borough Council. His war service included the Army and R.A.F.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
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
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
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
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
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
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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