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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dunbartonshire West Constituency – Biography of McKinlay

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dunbartonshire West Constituency – Biography of McKinlay

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dunbartonshire West

    CANDIDATE : McKinlay

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. S. McKinlay was M.P. for the Partick division of Glasgow in 1929-31, and Dunbarton from 1941 to the dissolution. Formerly a woodworker and trade union organizer in the Clyde shipyards, he has been a prominent member of Glasgow Corporation and Convener of the Housing Committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Western Isles Constituency – Biography of Murray

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Western Isles 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 : Western Isles

    CANDIDATE : Murray

    PARTY : Scot. Home Rule

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. Murray, born in 1900, took a B.Sc in engineering at Glasgow University, later studied steel making in Germany, was an engineer in Australia, and a steel salesman in the United States and South America. Now an industrial journalist, he is a member of the Committee of the Scottish Convention, and played a part in the launching of the latest Covenant.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rutherglen Constituency – Biography of McAllister

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rutherglen Constituency – Biography of McAllister

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rutherglen

    CANDIDATE : McAllister

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. McAllister, who was born in 1906, was educated at Wishaw High School and Glasgow University. A public relations consultant, journalist, and author, he joined the Labour Party in 1924, and won Rutherglen from the Conservatives in the 1945 election. He is particularly interested in town and country planning and was secretary of the Town and Country Planning Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Perth and East Perthshire Constituency – Biography of Stewart

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Perth and East Perthshire Constituency – Biography of Stewart

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Perth and East Perthshire

    CANDIDATE : Stewart

    PARTY : Scot. Nat.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. Stewart is 33 and a member of the council of the Scottish National Party. He is a member of Doune Town Council, having topped the poll as a Scottish Nationalist last year. He is engaged in the building trade.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Lothian Constituency – Biography of Hynd

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Lothian Constituency – Biography of Hynd

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : West Lothian

    CANDIDATE : Hynd

    PARTY : Scottish Self-Govt.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Maxwell Hynd, who is in his late fifties, is a publicity agent, and lives at Dunfermline, Fife. He has worked in Australia as a farmer and gold miner, in Argentina as an engineer, and in an industrial works in America. A Scottish Home Ruler for 30 years, he acted as his own election agent and contested the seat without the support of the local Nationalist organization.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Battersea North Constituency – Biography of Handscombe

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Battersea North Constituency – Biography of Handscombe

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Battersea North

    CANDIDATE : Handscombe

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. R. Handscombe is a Fulham builder who began life as a barrister’s clerk. Aged 48, he went to St. Martin’s High School, S.W. He was a member of the Labour Party until he joined the Liberals, and is chairman of a ward organization in Fulham. He is also chairman of the Fulham panel of builders and a member of the area committee of the Master Builders’ Federation.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Camberwell Peckham Constituency – Biography of Lee

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Camberwell Peckham Constituency – Biography of Lee

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Camberwell Peckham

    CANDIDATE : Lee

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. H. Lee, aged 38, was born in Cornwall and orphaned at the age of six, being brought up by his grandparents. He went to Westminster College and the University of London, and is a teacher, and holds office i? the National Union of Teachers. He is a member of Wembley Borough Council, and has held a number of offices in the Conservative Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fulham East Constituency – Biography of Jacoby

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fulham East Constituency – Biography of Jacoby

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fulham East

    CANDIDATE : Jacoby

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Jacoby, born in 1887, is a retired io!t manager- He was commissioned in the 1*14-18 war and won the M.C. In the last war he served in the Home Guard and was commander of the Hyde Park Defences.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hammersmith South Constituency – Biography of Williams

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hammersmith South Constituency – Biography of Williams

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hammersmith South

    CANDIDATE : Williams

    PARTY : Co-op and Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. T. Williams, who won the seat at a by-election in 1949, was born in 1915, the son of a South Wa?es minair. He gained scholarships to the University of Wales, and is M.A.(Oxon), B.D.(Wales), and Ll.B. (London). He is a Baptist minister, and has been bursar, and tutor at Manchester College, Oxford, and chaplain and welfare officer at a camp for returned R.A.F. war prisoners.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Islington South West Constituency – Biography of Evans

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Islington South West Constituency – Biography of Evans

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Islington South West

    CANDIDATE : Evans

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Evans was elected member for West Islington in a by-election in 1947. Born in 1903, he became a master engraver and has been a member of the Goldsmiths’, Jewellers’ and Allied Trades Society since 1925. He has served on the Islington Borough Council and the London County Council, and has taken a special interest in questions affecting local government and trade and industry.

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