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 : Leicester South East

CANDIDATE : Waterhouse

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. Charles Waterhouse represented the old South division of Leicester for 21 years, but was defeated at the 1945 election. He was an Assistant Whip in 1935-36 ; a Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1936; Comptroller of H.M. Household, 1937-38, and Treasurer in 1938-39; and became Assistant Postmaster-General from 1939 to 1941 ; and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1941 to 1945. He was educated at Cheltenham and Trinity College, Cambridge, and during the 1914-18 war served with the Life Guards.

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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 : Liverpool Edge Hill

CANDIDATE : Bowen

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Bowen is 41 years of age and chairman of Edge Hill Liberal Association. He has been chairman of the Clerical and Administrative Union at Edge Gill and of the Liverpool Engineering Union. For three years he was hon. warden of a Toe H hostel in Liverpool. Born and educated in Birmingham, he is employed by a telephone manufacturing company.

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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 : Liverpool Walton

CANDIDATE : Thompson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. P. Thompson is a native of Liverpool, who began his career as a newspaper reporter but later entered commercial life. He was formerly a lecturer for the Economic League and has been a member of the Liverpool City Council since 1938. During the war he worked for the Ministry of Information.

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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 : Manchester Blackley

CANDIDATE : Ainley

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Ainley has been a member of the Communist Party since 1922, and for much of that time a member of its Lancashire and Cheshire committee, in charge of electoral work. Born in 1901, he graduated with honours at London University, and is a teacher in Manchester. He has held office in the N.U.T., and is also a lecturer to W.E.A., cooperative, and trade union bodies.

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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 : Manchester Moss Side

CANDIDATE : Atkin

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. P. Atkin is 39, and was educated at Bowdon College. He served over five years during the war, for some time in India and south-east Asia. He has a general merchant-ing business in Altrincham, and lives in Hale, where, last year, he was elected to the district council as the first Liberal member.

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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 : Middlesbrough West

CANDIDATE : Wright

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Wright is a member of a local family long associated with the Conservative cause. Aged 53, he was educated at Middlesbrough High School. He has been in the iron and steel business all his life, and is managing director of an old-established ironworks of which Mr. Alfred Edwards is a director. He is an authority on the technical side of the industry, and holds office in a number of organizations connected with the iron and steel trade.

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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 : Newcastle upon Tyne North

CANDIDATE : Shackleton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. Shackleton was the Labour candidate in 1945, and is 49. He went to a council school in Bradford, but his parents moved to Newcastle and he was apprenticed to engineering. He worked as maintenance engineer and later became assistant divisional organizer for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers.

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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 : Nottingham East

CANDIDATE : Harrison

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Harrison, born in 1899, entered Parliament in 1945 as member for this division. A railway engine driver, he is on the executive of the National Union of Rail-waymen and has been chairman of the South Derbyshire Labour Party | and an N.C.L.C. lecturer. He was a member of the Parliamentary delegation which visited China. Transport questions and the colonies are among his special interests in Parliament.

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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 : Oldham West

CANDIDATE : Hale

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Leslie Hale first entered Parliament at the 1945 election and had the reputation of being the fastest speaker in the House. Forty-eight years of age and a solicitor, he qualified nine months before he was old enough to be admitted. He began to practise in Leicestershire and was a county councillor for 20 years. In 1939 he enlisted in the Royal Artillery. He now practises in London.

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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 : Poole

CANDIDATE : Wheatley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. M. J. Wheatley represented East Dorset in the last Parliament and was a Conservative Whip. Now in his 70th year, he served in the South African war and the 1914-18 war and commanded a Home Guard battalion in the last war. For 20 years he was in the Sudan Political Service, became private secretary to the Governor-General of the Sudan in 1916, and later was appointed Governor of the Bahr-el-Shazal Province. After retiring from the Army he turned to municipal affairs, and became mayor of Poole and an alderman of the Dorset County Council.

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