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 : Thirsk and Malton

CANDIDATE : Geffen

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Geffen was born in 1920, and is solicitor to the Durham Miners’ Association, joining the Labour Party when he was 15, Mr. Geffen is a former political education officer of Hampstead Labour Party, a member of the Haldane and Fabian Societies, and organizing secretary of the latter’s Durham branch. He has been a member of the London University branch of the Labour Party since 1945, and is a member of the National Union of Mineworkers (Durham area). He served with the Royal Artillery, 1940-45, and was later engaged in full-time educational work with the Army Educational Corps.

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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 : Hemsworth

CANDIDATE : Holmes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Horace Holmes was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Fuel and Power in the last Parliament. He started work at 13 as a miner and served for many years as an official in the miners’union. He was for 23 years a member of Royston R.D.C. and for 11 years sat on the West Riding County Council. He is 59, and won the D.C.M. in the war. He was first returned to Parliament unopposed at a by-election at Hemsworth in 1946. His majority this time was the largest in the election.

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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 : Skipton

CANDIDATE : Roberts

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. J. Roberts was born in the Glamorganshire mining village of Nelson in 1915 and is the son of a miner. He obtained a B.A. degree with first-class honours in economics and political science at Cardiff University, and became a teacher. Before the war he was a master at Skipton Grammar School, and is a staff tutor at University College, Hull. He served in the Army during the war.

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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 : Cardiff West

CANDIDATE : Hallinan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. S. Hallinan is 54, and a solicitor. He fought Central Cardiff in 1945. A former member of Cardiff City Council, he was deputy lord mayor in 1944-45. He is chairman of West Cardiff Conservative Association, and of the Wales and Monmouth?hire Conservative Clubs Council. During the war he commanded the 21st Glamorgan (Cardiff) Battalion, Home Guard.

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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 : Swansea West

CANDIDATE : Morris

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Percy Morris, who won the seat from a Liberal National candidate in 1945, has been a railway clerk and was Deputy Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence from 1941 to 1945. He is a member of Swansea Borough Council, and since 1930 has been a member of the executive committee of the Railway Clerks’ Association. He was born in 1893, and is interested in transport and local government questions.

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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 : Cardiganshire

CANDIDATE : Morgan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Morgan who is a trained economist, graduated at the University College of Wales. While a student there he produced a history of the college. He is a member of the council and court of the University College of Wales and of the National Library of Wales, and lectures on economics and international affairs.

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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 : Flintshire East

CANDIDATE : Waterhouse

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. S. G. Waterhouse, who was born in 1918, is a general manager of a firm in the woollen industry. He took a degree in commerce at London University and won the Sir Ernest Cassel travelling scholarship in commerce, which he used to visit the United States to study American selling methods. He served during the war on the staff at headquarters of the 21st Army Group and the British Army of the Rhine.

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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 : Neath

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. O. Vaughan Jones, 57, is the son of a Congregational minister. He has been active in the Liberal Party in North Wales for many years, and is a member of the executive of the Welsh Liberal Party. He has practised as a doctor for 23 years, and been public assistance medical officer, Caernarvonshire, and medical officer to North Wales Teachers’ Training College.

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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 : Bedwellty

CANDIDATE : Pitman

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. C. Pitman is the grandson of the retiring Labour member, Sir Charles Edwards. A former minister, he became chief instructor under the Army educational scheme at the holding unit of The Royal Sussex and The Royal Berkshire Regiments. He was lately secretary and treasurer of the Welsh Conservative M.P.s’ and Prospective Candidates’ 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 : Aberdeen North

CANDIDATE : Cooney

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Cooney is a local Communist leader. He was nominated to contest Greenock in 1941 but withdrew.

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