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 : Ormskirk

CANDIDATE : Cross

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Ronald Cross, British High Commissioner in Australia from 1941 to 1945, is a former Conservative Minister. He was born in 1896 and was educated at Eton. He served in the first war and in 1931 entered the House of Commons as member for Rossendale, but lost the seat in 1945. He has held numerous Parliamentary posts, including those of Government Whip, Vice-Chairman of the Household, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade. From 1939to 1940 he was Minister of Economic Warfare, and from 1940 to 1941 Minister of Shipping. In the latter year he went to Australia.

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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 : Loughborough

CANDIDATE : Follick

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Follick, an advocate of spelling reform, is a linguist, speaking seven languages and having a working knowledge of 14. He founded a school of languages in London. Born in 1887, he was educated at the Sorbonne, Paris, and the Universities of Halle and Padua, and for four years was professor of English at Madrid University. He has been secretary to the Aga Khan, Sir Robert Philip (Prime Minister of Queensland), and the Sultan of Morocco, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Royal Society of Arts.

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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 : Brigg

CANDIDATE : Cowley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. M. Cowley, a 30-year-old barrister, served during the war as a flight lieutenant. He was a prisoner of war from 1941 to 1944, when he escaped. He was born in Belfast, and educated at Radley and Exeter College, Oxford. His father, also a Liberal, is a deemster in the Isle of Man.

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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 : Norfolk Central

CANDIDATE : Holderness

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sqn. Ldr. G. W. Holderness, formerly a journalist, disposed of his newspaper interests in Devonshire after the war and took up fruit and stock farming in Norfolk. He served in the Palestine campaign in the 1914-18 war and in the later war was at the headquarters of the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces.

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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 : Yarmouth

CANDIDATE : Cornwell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Cornwell, formerly an insurance broker, is interested in many property and estate companies in the south of England. He served with the Royal Corps of Signals during the war. He is vice-president of the South Bucks Liberal Association, and he was a member of the Albany Club Sports Committee which raised £10,000 for the National Playing Fields 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 : Berwick-upon-Tweed

CANDIDATE : Davis

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Davis, a Co-operative Society branch manager, was at the bottom of the poll in the 1945 contest. He was educated at an elementary school, and is aged 52. For many years he has worked for the Shop Assistants’ Union, and in the local boys’ club, British Legion, and W.E.A. He is chairman of the local development board and for 16 years was a member of Amble U.D.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 : Mansfield

CANDIDATE : Ellis

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. L. Ellis, who is 47 and a former miner, was refused employment at the pits after the 1926 strike, but was recently elected checkweighman. He served in the Army from 1942 to 1946, and became a staff-sergeant. A member of Hucknall Co-operative Society for 29 years, and now a director, he joined the Communist Party in 1934 and was its organizer in 1941-42.

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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 : Oswestry

CANDIDATE : Wait

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. G. Wait, a Monmouthshire farmer born 40 years ago, and educated at council and grammar schools, is founder and secretary of the British Socialist Agricultural Society. He serves on the county agricultural executive committee and is a past chairman of Pontypool branch of the National Farmers’ Union and of National Union of Agricultural Workers. He travels the country to explain Labour’s agricultural policy, and is active in Sunday school and Free Church work.

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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 : Wells

CANDIDATE : Archibald

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lady Archibald contested Bath in 1945. After securing an honours degree in history and economics at Cambridge, she became a trade boaid inspector in sweated industries, and has since travelled in Europe and America and has undertaken research work at Harvard and in Oxford. She founded a child guidance clinic in North-West London. In 1946 she was elected to the London County Council, and among other appointments is chairman of its Children 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 : Leek

CANDIDATE : Speir

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. M. Speir, a solicitor and merchant banker with a London firm, was born in 1910, and was educated at Eton and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Chairman of the University Conservative Association in 1931, he was chairman of the Chelsea Junior Imperial League the following year and acted as an honorary secretary to Sir Samuel Hoare when Secretary of State for India. Since 1946 he has been an officer of the City of London Conservative Association. He served in the Army during the war and became a lieutenant-colonel.

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