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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leicester North East Constituency – Biography of Westacott

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leicester North East Constituency – Biography of Westacott

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leicester North East

    CANDIDATE : Westacott

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. C. Westacott, aged 33, is a native of South Wales. He saw service in the Army in Italy and Trieste in the last war. He has been secretary of the Welsh Committee of the Shop Stewards movement and is East Midlands organizer for the Communist Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lincoln Constituency – Biography of Hill

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lincoln Constituency – Biography of Hill

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lincoln

    CANDIDATE : Hill

    PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. W. F. Hill, a native of Lincoln, aged 50, and a bachelor, is a solicitor. He is an alderman and ex-mayor and leader of the Independent group which is in control of the city council. Among his other offices is that of president of the council of Nottingham University, secretary of Lincoln Engineering Society, and chairman of governors of Lincoln school.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Liverpool Scotland Constituency – Biography of Coward

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Liverpool Scotland Constituency – Biography of Coward

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Liverpool Scotland

    CANDIDATE : Coward

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Coward, aged 44 and a seaman, is assistant secretary of the Merseyside Communist Party. He has been prominent in labour disputes among seamen and dockers. He fought with the International Brigade in Spain and was captured and sentenced to 30 years’ forced labour, but escaped. During the war he was a gun layer in the Royal Navy, serving in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Ardwick Constituency – Biography of Hodson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Ardwick Constituency – Biography of Hodson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Ardwick

    CANDIDATE : Hodson

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Hodson, a Manchester accountant, was born in 1914 and educated at Manchester High School of Commerce. He is also an associate of the British Institution of Radio Engineers, and, in his service for the Royal Navy, ashore and afloat, he was engaged with communications equipment. He has also been an Admiralty accountant in Ceylon.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Gorton Constituency – Biography of Caplin

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Gorton Constituency – Biography of Caplin

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Gorton

    CANDIDATE : Caplin

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. M. Caplin is 42, and an architect who studied town planning at Liverpool University and abroad. Designer of several housing schemes, he is also chairman of a committee of the National Council of Social Services on the social aspects of planning. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he is vice-chairman of the National Federation of Housing.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Middlesbrough East Constituency – Biography of Edwards

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Middlesbrough East Constituency – Biography of Edwards

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Middlesbrough East

    CANDIDATE : Edwards

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Alfred Edwards was born in Middlesbrough 62 years ago. From an elementary school he entered industry as a boy, and while still a young man assumed control of the business. He is now a director of an old-established local ironworks, and is connected with many other enterprises. After serving on the town council, he won East Middlesbrough as a Labour candidate by a narrow majority i? 1935 and held the seat comfortably in 1945. His opposition to the Iron and Steel Act led to his expulsion from the Labour Party and later acceptance of the Conservative whip.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle upon Tyne East Constituency – Biography of Blenkinsop

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle upon Tyne East Constituency – Biography of Blenkinsop

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newcastle upon Tyne East

    CANDIDATE : Blenkinsop

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Blenkinsop, before he became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions. Born in 1911, he was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle on Tyne, and the College of Commerce, and when later he was employed by a colliery firm he lectured in his spare time for the W.E.A. During the war he joined The Durham Light Infantry, and was transferred to the Army Education Corps, being promoted to captain.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norwich South Constituency – Biography of Tylecote

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norwich South Constituency – Biography of Tylecote

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norwich South

    CANDIDATE : Tylecote

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. M. P. Tylecote has been a member of the Labour Party for 31 years. She is a lecturer and teacher and in 1932 married Professor F. E. Tylecote, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of Manchester. In 1940 she was elected to the Manchester City Council. In 1945 she unsuccessfully contested Middle-ton and Prestwich. She is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. From 1919 to 1920 she was a student and teacher at the University of Wisconsin, United States.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Oldbury and Halesowen Constituency – Biography of Brown

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Oldbury and Halesowen Constituency – Biography of Brown

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Oldbury and Halesowen

    CANDIDATE : Brown

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. R. K. Brown, a barrister practising on the Midland Circuit, was born in Calcutta in 1909. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and gained distinction both in legal scholarships and athletics. He was British hurdles champion in 1934. During the war he served with the 53rd Infantry Division and at Field-Marshal Montgomery’s headquarters. President of the Birmingham Liberal organization, he contested Stourbridge in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Plymouth Sutton Constituency – Biography of Astor

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Plymouth Sutton Constituency – Biography of Astor

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Plymouth Sutton

    CANDIDATE : Astor

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. J. Astor, is the youngest son of Viscount Astor. Aged 31, and educated at Eton and Oxford, Mr. Astor joined the Life Guards Supplementary Reserve in 1939 and served as a major in the Commandos at Dieppe and with airborne forces in Italy, France, Germany, and Norway, being awarded the Legion d’Honneur and the Croix de Guerre by the French. In 1949 he became secretary to Mr. R. A. Butler and was secretary to the British delegation at the Commonwealth Conference in Canada.

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