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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Devon North Constituency – Biography of Naylor

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Devon North Constituency – Biography of Naylor

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Devon North

    CANDIDATE : Naylor

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Naylor is chairman of the Liberal Party Publicity Department, and unsuccessfully contested Aylesbury in 1945. He was educated at Radley and St. John’s College, Cambridge. At the beginning of the war, he ran an ambulance station in the East End. Later he joined the Army, rose to major, and became a parachutist for the underground movement and a worker for the Maquis in France. He is .a member of the executive of the Liberal Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset North Constituency – Biography of Byers

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset North Constituency – Biography of Byers

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorset North

    CANDIDATE : Byers

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Byers, Liberal Chief Whip in the last Parliament, won North Dorset from the Conservatives in 1945 for the first time in 21 years Aged 34, he was educated at Westminster College (he was the first exchange scholar with Milton Academy, Massachusetts) and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took an honours degree in politics, philosophy, and economics, and was a champion hurdler. In 1939 he enlisted as a private, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He served on the General Staff of 21 Army Group under Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery. He is a farmer and a law student at Gray’s Inn.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Consett Constituency – Biography of Goodhart

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Consett Constituency – Biography of Goodhart

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Consett

    CANDIDATE : Goodhart

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. C. Goodhart, aged 25, is a student at Cambridge University, where he has taken a degree with honours in history. He is a senior committee member of the Cambridge Union and editor of Varsity. He was educated in America from 1938 to 1943, when he returned to serve in the war. He has been chairman of study groups in the University Conservative Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Isle of Ely Constituency – Biography of Gray

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Isle of Ely Constituency – Biography of Gray

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Isle of Ely

    CANDIDATE : Gray

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Cmdr. A. F. Gray, a retired naval officer of 49, is a farmer at Wimblington, near March. By giving a false age, he saw four years’ service in the Navy in the first war, obtained his captain’s certificate when 25, and in the last war was a destroyer captain and senior officer commanding an Atlantic convoy escort group.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Maldon Constituency – Biography of Driberg

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Maldon Constituency – Biography of Driberg

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Maldon

    CANDIDATE : Driberg

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. E. N. Driberg is a Fleet Street journalist. He won Maldon as an Independent at a by-election in 1942. Joining the Labour Party in 1945 he retained the seat at the General Election. He was one of the Parliamentary delegation which visited Buchenwald concentration camp. He is a member of the national executive of the Labour Party. He is 43 years of age.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gloucestershire South Constituency – Biography of Howard-Stepney

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gloucestershire South Constituency – Biography of Howard-Stepney

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gloucestershire South

    CANDIDATE : Howard-Stepney

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. V. Howard-Stepney, who is 35, is the son of Sir E. Stafford Howard, of Thorn-bury, and of Lady Howard-Stepney, of Llanelly, who assumed for herself and her children the name of Stepney. Sir Howard was a former Liberal M.P. for the county. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, Mr. Howard-Stepney is keenly interested in agriculture. He served in the Coldstream Guards during the war, and finished as A.D.C. to the G.O.C., Burma.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Petersfield Constituency – Biography of Candy

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Petersfield Constituency – Biography of Candy

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Petersfield

    CANDIDATE : Candy

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. I. Candy, who is 26, won a scholarship to Bournemouth High School, and after service in the war as a full-time A.R.P. worker took the degree of Bachelor of Science in economics at Southampton University. She is a founder member of Southampton Labour League of Youth and an educational lecturer. Her husband was her agent in the election.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hertford Constituency – Biography of Walker-Smith

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hertford Constituency – Biography of Walker-Smith

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hertford

    CANDIDATE : Walker-Smith

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. C. Walker-Smith, son of Sir J. Walker-Smith, M.P. for Barrow-in-Furness and a former housing director at the Ministry of Health, is 39. He won scholarships to Rossall, Christ Church, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, and was called to the Bar. A writer on political subjects, he edited the English Review for two years. Serving on General Eisenhower’s staff in the war, he became a lieutenant-colonel. He was elected for Hertford in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ashford Constituency – Biography of Sandelson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ashford Constituency – Biography of Sandelson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ashford

    CANDIDATE : Sandelson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. N. D. Sandelson, a barrister, born in 1923, was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge. He formed a Labour club while at school, and later was a co-founder of the Cambridge Forty-nine Group. He was elected in 1948 a member of the committee of the Haldane Society investigating High Court procedure. He is a native of Leeds and is a former member of the executive of the Central Leeds divisional party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Folkestone and Hythe Constituency – Biography of Murray

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Folkestone and Hythe 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 : Folkestone and Hythe

    CANDIDATE : Murray

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. M. Murray, 29 years of age, is assistant editor of a daily newspaper. He served in the R.A.F. during the war, and was a lecturer to the three Services on current political affairs.

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