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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rutland and Stamford Constituency – Biography of Conant

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rutland and Stamford Constituency – Biography of Conant

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rutland and Stamford

    CANDIDATE : Conant

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. R. J. E. Conant was M.P. for the former Bewdley division from 1937 to 1945, and for Chesterfield 1931-35, and has been Parliamentary private secretary to several Ministers. He was born in 1899, educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He has many associations with Rutland, having been High Sheriff in 1921, and is a deputy lieutenant for the county. He held a commission in the Grenadier Guards and served with them in both wars.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Spelthorne Constituency – Biography of Halpin

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Spelthorne Constituency – Biography of Halpin

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Spelthorne

    CANDIDATE : Halpin

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. J. Halpin was born in 1913 and is a teacher who was employed at Maidenhead when he resigned to join the R.A.F.V.R. at the outbreak of war. Serving with the Federated Malay States squadron of the R.A.F. he was wounded after a raid on Hamburg, joined the ” Pathfinders ” and received the D.F.C., and in 1945 was posted to the Air Ministry for administrative duties. Two years later he became Station Navigation Officer at a Flying Training Command station. He is one of the founders of the Middlesex County Liberal Organization.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk South West Constituency – Biography of Bullard

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk South West Constituency – Biography of Bullard

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norfolk South West

    CANDIDATE : Bullard

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. G. Bullard who farms 300 acres near Wisbech, took his degree at Cambridge and later gained a diploma in agricultural science. During the war he was technical adviser to the Huntingdonshire War Agricultural Committee, and has been vice-chairman of the Isle of Ely Conservative Association. He was born in 1912, and is a bachelor.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wellingborough Constituency – Biography of Malindine

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wellingborough Constituency – Biography of Malindine

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wellingborough

    CANDIDATE : Malindine

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. T. Malindine is engaged in the lubricating and tanning oil trade. At one time, when a member of Bethnal Green Borough Council, he was the youngest councillor in England. He was commissioned in the R.A.S.C. and served on the staff of ” Pluto,” during the war. He is 40.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carlton Constituency – Biography of Paton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carlton Constituency – Biography of Paton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carlton

    CANDIDATE : Paton

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. F. Paton, who was elected for Rush-cliffe in 1945, is the only woman to be appointed to the Speaker’s Panel of Chairmen of Committees of the House of Commons, and was the first woman to preside over the House in Committee in 1948. She is the wife of Mr. John Paton, M.P. for Norwich since 1945. She is a former teacher, and during the war she taught in London and lectured to the Forces.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Henley Constituency – Biography of Hawkins

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Henley Constituency – Biography of Hawkins

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Henley

    CANDIDATE : Hawkins

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. E, G. Hawkins, a farmer, contested Cirencestei and Tewkesbury in 1945. Aged 41, he went to a private school and the London School of Economics. A Fabian, he is an officer of the British Socialist Agricultural Society ; on the research committee of the Rural Reconstruction Association ; and a member of the Agricultural Economics Society.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Somerset North Constituency – Biography of Whitcher

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Somerset North Constituency – Biography of Whitcher

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Somerset North

    CANDIDATE : Whitcher

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. E. Whitcher is 41 and a city councillor in Bath, where he is chairman of the housing committee. Born in Highcliffe, Hampshire, he went to Bath in 1933, and controls a motor tyres and spares business. Treasurer of the Somerset Diocesan Mission to the Deaf and Dumb, he has raised many thousands of pounds for this work, and is active in other social service movements.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Burton Constituency – Biography of Colegate

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Burton Constituency – Biography of Colegate

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Burton

    CANDIDATE : Colegate

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Colegate represented The Wrekin from 1940 to 1945, when he was defeated. Educated at London University, where he took an honours degree in science, he enlisted for active service in the first world war but was seconded for special service in the Board of Trade. In 1947 he was appointed chairman of the West Midlands Area Conservative and Unionist Associations, and is a member of the central executive of the Conservative Party. He has been a governor of Harper Adams Agricultural College.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eye Constituency – Biography of Emsden

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eye Constituency – Biography of Emsden

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eye

    CANDIDATE : Emsden

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. L. G. Emsden, who was born in 1893, is a retired Regular Army officer who served in France and East Africa in 1914-18 and as a brigade major and staff officer from 1939 to 1945. He joined the Labour Party in 1945, and has served on Suffolk local authorities.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorking Constituency – Biography of Francis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorking Constituency – Biography of Francis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorking

    CANDIDATE : Francis

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Francis was born at Woodford, Essex, in 1893. After serving in the ranks in the 1914-18 war, he became a retail and wholesale newsagent at Carshalton, where he lives and?controls a business. He was elected to Carshalton Urban Council in 1939, and was chairman in 1944-46. He is president of the Carshalton Municipal Ratepayers’ Association and chairman of the Carshalton National Savings Committee.

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