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 : Blackburn East

CANDIDATE : Leavey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Leavey, 35, is a director of a weaving and spinning concern in Colne, and managing director of another business at j^elson. During the war he served with the tnmskilling Dragoons in France and Belgium oetore the retreat and returned to France with l«em soon after D Day. He held the rank of major on demobilization. He is chairman of uie Gisburn branch of the Skipton Conservative 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 : Bolton West

CANDIDATE : Tillotson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. L. Tillotson, aged 30, is the youngest son of Mr. F. L. Tillotson, chairman of Tillotsons Newspapers, Limited, Bolton. He was educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford. Joining the Army in 1939 he served in France and took part in the Dunkirk evacuation. Later commissioned in the R.A.S.C., he served mostly with armoured aivjsions and was eventually on headquarters staff of 30th Corps. On demobilization he Joined the family firm.

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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 : Bradford East

CANDIDATE : Green

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Green, a miner, born in Bradford in 1907, was at one time a member of the Yorkshire divisional council of the Labour Party. He was active in hunger marches of the unemployed in the ’30s, and in the great Yorkshire woollen strike. Later, he joined the Communists and is their Yorkshire district organizer.

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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 : Brighton Pavilion

CANDIDATE : Teeling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Teeling, aged 47, has been one of Brighton’s two representatives in Parliament since 1944, when he won a by-election. He has interested himself in foreign affairs, and has travelled extensively in Australia, New Zealand, China, and Japan. He studied unemployment in America, Canada, and Europe, and in 1933 he led a deputation of British unemployed to Rome, where they were received by the Pope. During the war he was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F.

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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 : Bristol South East

CANDIDATE : Simms

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. E. Simms, aged 35, was early in life a prominent figure in the Young Conservative movement in London, where he worked in Fleet Street. In the last war he served in India and Burma, attaining the rank of captain. He is a keen Church worker.

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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 : Cambridge

CANDIDATE : Kerr

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Hamilton Kerr was member for Oldham in the 1931-45 Parliaments, and served as Under-Secretary for Air, 1942-45, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the “caretaker” Government. Born in 1903 and educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, he worked as a journalist in Fleet Street for three years before entering Parliament. He delegate to The Hague Conference in 1949.

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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 : Coventry East

CANDIDATE : Alexander

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Alexander, born in 1910, is an organizer for the Communist Party and a member of the national executive council. He fought for two years with the International Brigade in Spain, commanding a British battalion for nearly a year. In the last war he served for five years in the Royal Armoured Corps in North Africa, Italy and Germany, holding the rank of captain.

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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 : Croydon West

CANDIDATE : Thompson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. H. M. Thompson, aged 37, is a erector of two pub-“stung companies. He *as educated in India, «urma, and Ceylon, and alter leaving school worked in Calcutta. He enhsted in the Royal £avy as an ordinary seaman m 1940, and rose robelieutenant-comman-u<, o was serving in HM.s Hermione in wh;i en the shiP was attacked and sunk wwie on Malta convoy work.

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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 : Derby North

CANDIDATE : Walters

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. I. Walters comes from a family which has been closely associated with the growth of the Labour movement in the Ilkeston district. Aged 28, he is a school master and a B.A. of Nottingham University. He has lectured on political theory and is writing a history of Derbyshire.

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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 : Ealing North

CANDIDATE : Olsen

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. E. S. Olsen, wife of the medical superintendent of a hospital for nervous and mental disorders, graduated at the University of Wales and was formerly a senior English mistress. She is a member of Conservative Party area organizations.

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