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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bebington Constituency – Biography of White

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bebington Constituency – Biography of White

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bebington

    CANDIDATE : White

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Graham White has had a long career in Parliament, where he became a recognized spokesman for the Liberals on financial and economic affairs. He sat for Birkenhead East in the 1922 Parliament, was defeated in 1924, and regained the seat in 1929, and held it until 1945. Appointed Assistant Postmaster-General in 1931, he resigned the year after when the National Government introduced a general measure of protection. He was a member of the Curtis Committee, and one of the M.P.s who visited Buchenwald camp in 1945. Born in 1880, he is a stockbroker.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Aston Constituency – Biography of Embrey

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Aston Constituency – Biography of Embrey

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Aston

    CANDIDATE : Embrey

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Embrey is keenly interested in the British Legion. Aged 41, he is employed by a wge firm as a costs accountant. He was a territorial before the war and was at Dunkirk with h wth the 8th Bn., The Royal Warwickshire K-egiment.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham King’s Norton Constituency – Biography of Bradbeer

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham King’s Norton Constituency – Biography of Bradbeer

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham King’s Norton

    CANDIDATE : Bradbeer

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. F. Bradbeer was born in London in 1890. He has given many years of public service to Birmingham. Educated at King’s College and the London School of Economics, he was for nine years in the chief accountant’s office of the Great Northern Railway. He then entered the employment of Cadbury Bros., Bournville, and was secretary of the works council. For six years from 1925, he served on the Birmingham City Council, and then after a lapse of two years was again elected. He became an alderman in 1945 and was Lord Mayor in 1946-47.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Stechford Constituency – Biography of Pitt

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Stechford Constituency – Biography of Pitt

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Stechford

    CANDIDATE : Pitt

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss E. Pitt is the first woman to contest a Birmingham constituency in the Conservative interest. A resident in the Stechford division, she was born in Birmingham in 1906. She is an industrial welfare officer, and a member of the Birmingham City Council and is also active in women’s and youth organizations.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blyth Constituency – Biography of Robens

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blyth Constituency – Biography of Robens

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blyth

    CANDIDATE : Robens

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Robens was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power in the last Parliament, where he represented Wansbeck. That constituency has disappeared in the redistribution. He was elected to the Manchester City Council, and was a whole-time trade union official in the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. Before his appointment to the Ministry of Fuel and Power he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Transport. He was a director of the Cooperative Press.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bournemouth West Constituency – Biography of Creasey

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bournemouth West Constituency – Biography of Creasey

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bournemouth West

    CANDIDATE : Creasey

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Creasey, author of crime and adventure stories, was born in Surrey in 1908, and wrote his first book at 19. A member of the Liberal Party Council, he took a prominent part in the Bournemouth election campaigns in May and November, 1945. He is a Rotarian, and as chairman of a relief committee for displaced persons visited Wilhelmshaven recently.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brentford and Chiswick Constituency – Biography of Horne

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brentford and Chiswick 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 : Brentford and Chiswick

    CANDIDATE : Horne

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. F. Horne, aged 32, is a teacher, educated at Stratford-on-Avon, Bromsgrove, and Oxford. He has taught at St. Faith’s School, Cambridge, and Harwell College. Essex, and has been private coach to univer-. sity and other students. He is superintendent of a course for foreign teachers of English organized by the British Council at Oxford.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol North West Constituency – Biography of Braithwaite

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol North West Constituency – Biography of Braithwaite

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol North West

    CANDIDATE : Braithwaite

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Cmdr. J. Gurney Braithwaite represented the old Holderness division of East Yorkshire from 1939 to 1950 and sat as M.P. for the Hillsborough division of Sheffield from 1931 to 1935. Now a stockbroker, much of his earlier life was spent in the Navy, and in the 1914-18 war he took part in the Suvla Bay landing and the Palestine operations. In the last war he took part in the organization of convoys sailing from the Thames estuary.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Burnley Constituency – Biography of Burke

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Burnley Constituency – Biography of Burke

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Burnley

    CANDIDATE : Burke

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. w. A. Burke, who was elected for Burnley in 1935 was Assistant Postmaster-General from 1945 to 1947.He entered commercial life in Manchester in 1918, and two later became Manchester organizer of the National union of Distributive and Allied Workers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chesterfield Constituency – Biography of Benson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chesterfield Constituency – Biography of Benson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chesterfield

    CANDIDATE : Benson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Benson was member for the division from 1929 to 1931 and continuously from 1935 to the dissolution. Aged 60, he was educated at Manchester Grammar school and is a Partner in a firm of estate agents in Manchester. He is chairman ol the Howard League for Penal Reform, and a member of the Home yiuce Advisory Council on delinquency He ls the author of books on finance and accountancy.

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