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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carmarthen Constituency – Biography of Morris

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carmarthen Constituency – Biography of Morris

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carmarthen

    CANDIDATE : Morris

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Hopkin Morris, K.C., has been Liberal member for Carmarthen since 1945. A graduate of the University of Wales, he was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple and in 1921 took silk. He is the son of a Congregational minister. He was sitting in the House of Commons as M.P. for Cardiganshire in 1932 when he was appointed a Metropolitan Magistrate, and four years later he became regional director for Wales of the B.B.C., an appointment he resigned just before the 1945 election.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Flintshire West Constituency – Biography of Leadbeater

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Flintshire West Constituency – Biography of Leadbeater

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Flintshire West

    CANDIDATE : Leadbeater

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. V. Leadbeater, 41, graduated at the University of Wales with first-class honours in English, and in 1929 was president of the Debates Union there. A grammar schoolmaster at Mold, he is also a university extension lecturer and tutor in English and current affairs. During the war he was an education and welfare officer in the National Fire Service. He is well known in North and South Wales .as a Rugby player.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ogmore Constituency – Biography of Padley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ogmore Constituency – Biography of Padley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ogmore

    CANDIDATE : Padley

    PARTY : lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. E. Padley, is 33 and was educated at Chipping Norton Grammar School and Ruskin College, Oxford. Active in the Labour movement since 1932, at one time he was a close colleague of James Maxton in the leadership of the I.L.P. He is president of the Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers, and from 1941 to 1946 was a member of the I.L.P. national council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ebbw Vale Constituency – Biography of Finlay

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ebbw Vale Constituency – Biography of Finlay

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ebbw Vale

    CANDIDATE : Finlay

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. B. Finlay, 32, was educated at Marlborough and University College, London, called to the Bar in 1946, and is in practice on the Oxford circuit. During the war he saw service with The South Wales Borderers, the Royal Artillery, and the Indian Army. He is treasurer of the Hardwicke Debating Society, and has been a member of the executive of the Chelsea Conservative Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdeen South Constituency – Biography of Cruchley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aberdeen South Constituency – Biography of Cruchley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aberdeen South

    CANDIDATE : Cruchley

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. O. Cruchley, a barrister practising in London, holds the LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from Liverpool University. A member of the Labour Party Imperial advisory committee, she is specially interested in the West Indies. A governor of three schools in Westminster, she is a member of the Society of Labour Lawyers and a member of the committee of the Anti-Slavery Society.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Central Constituency – Biography of Renton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh Central Constituency – Biography of Renton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh Central

    CANDIDATE : Renton

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. Renton was born in Portobello, and has been a Communist propagandist since his youth. Serving with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, he was captured and sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment, but was released under an exchange scheme. After service in the Royal Artillery in the war, he became Communist Party secretary for South-East Scotland.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh South Constituency – Biography of Daiches

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh South Constituency – Biography of Daiches

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh South

    CANDIDATE : Daiches

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. H. Daiches was born in 1911 the son of a rabbi of the Edinburgh Jewish congregation. Educated at George Watson’s College and Edinburgh University, he practised as a solicitor before being admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1946. Has written many articles arguing the identical nature of Bolshevism and Fascism.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Gorbals Constituency – Biography of Young

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Gorbals Constituency – Biography of Young

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Gorbals

    CANDIDATE : Young

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Young, aged 39, studied at the Bonar Law Memorial College, later began business as a joiner, and is now a builder’s agent. He is chairman of the West of Scotland Junior Unionists’ Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Maryhill Constituency – Biography of Murray

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Maryhill Constituency – Biography of Murray

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Maryhill

    CANDIDATE : Murray

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss J. S. Murray is 32, lives in Edinburgh, and is the daughter of a Paisley doctor. She took a degree in law and a diploma in social science at Edinburgh University. During the war she was a Ministry of Labour welfare officer in East Scotland, and later assistant labour officer with the Ministry of Supply in Edinburgh. Recently, she has been organizing secretary to the King George V Fund for Sailors in East Scotland.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Springburn Constituency – Biography of Horne

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Springburn Constituency – Biography of Horne

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Springburn

    CANDIDATE : Horne

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Horne, one of the most active Communists in Scotland, is propaganda secretary of the Party’s Scottish committee. He has contested both Parliamentary and municipal elections in Glasgow.

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