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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Twickenham Constituency – Biography of Stonehouse

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Twickenham Constituency – Biography of Stonehouse

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Twickenham

    CANDIDATE : Stonehouse

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Stonehouse, who was born in 1925, is studying at the London School of Economics. He joined the R.A.F. during the war, trained as a pilot, but became an education officer. As international secretary of the Association of Labour Student Organizations he has visited most European countries and the United States.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow East Constituency – Biography of Wallace

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow East Constituency – Biography of Wallace

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Walthamstow East

    CANDIDATE : Wallace

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. W. Wallace, born in 1885, has been a candidate in every General Election since 1918, at Bury until 1924, and in Walthamstow since. He represented East Walthamstow from 1929 to 1931, and from 1945. He was chairman of the Postmen’s Federation in 1918 and secretary of the outdoor grades of the Union of Post Office Workers until 1945. He is an alderman of Lambeth Borough Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wednesbury Constituency – Biography of Bowker

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wednesbury Constituency – Biography of Bowker

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wednesbury

    CANDIDATE : Bowker

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Bowker was educated at Birmingham and London universities, and practised as a land agent in the west Midlands. In the war he served with Intelligence and other military branches. Aged 36, he is a former chairman of the Worcestershire Liberal Federation.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Ham South Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Ham South Constituency – Biography of Jones

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : West Ham South

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Elwyn Jones, Parliamentary private secretary to the Attorney-General in the last Parliament is a barrister. Born on October 24, 1909, he was at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Gon-ville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil. He was assistant British prosecutor at Nuremberg war trials and at the Hamburg trial of Marshal von Manstein. He has been M.P. for Plaistow since 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton North East Constituency – Biography of Baird

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton North East Constituency – Biography of Baird

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wolverhampton North East

    CANDIDATE : Baird

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Baird won East Wolverhampton from the Liberals in 1945. Soil of a miner, he is a dental surgeon, having studied at Glasgow University and St. Mungo’s Medical College. During the 1939-45 war he served with the Army Dental Corps, in which he was a captain. Born in 1906, he joined the Labour Party in 1930, and for many years has been active in local government work.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worthing Constituency – Biography of Home

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worthing Constituency – Biography of Home

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Worthing

    CANDIDATE : Home

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. Horne, an outfitter at Haywards Heath, is 51. He makes a hobby of mechanics and has several inventions to his credit including an electro-magnetic motor-car lock.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Abingdon Constituency – Biography of Glyn

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Abingdon Constituency – Biography of Glyn

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Abingdon

    CANDIDATE : Glyn

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Ralph Glyn has sat continuously for Abingdon since 1924. During the National Government of 1931 he was joint Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Ramsay Mac-Donald. He was created a baronet in 1934. Born in 1886, he joined The Rifle Brigade in 1904 after being educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. He contested two by-elections in 1910, and was returned for Clackmannan and E. Stirling in 1918, serving for four years.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Buckingham Constituency – Biography of Crawley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Buckingham Constituency – Biography of Crawley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Buckingham

    CANDIDATE : Crawley

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Aidan Crawley, who won the first Labour victory in the division in 1945, was formerly a journalist and producer of educational films, and is married to Virginia Cowles, the American authoress. He was for a time Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and was a delegate to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg. Born in 1908, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, and has played cricket for Harrow, Oxford University and Kent.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chester Constituency – Biography of Nield

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chester Constituency – Biography of Nield

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chester

    CANDIDATE : Nield

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. B. Nield, K.C., entered Parliament for Chester in 1940 at a by-election. He graduated from Oxford, was called to the Bar in 1925 and took silk after 1 the war, in which he served with the Judge Advocate’s Department at home and in the Middle East. Born in 1903, Mr. Nield is a bachelor.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Runcorn Constituency – Biography of Griffiths

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Runcorn Constituency – Biography of Griffiths

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Runcorn

    CANDIDATE : Griffiths

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Griffiths, who is 42, is in the corn milling and road transport business. A member of the Market Drayton Urban Council, he also serves on the Shropshire County Council. He comes from a farming family and has had close experience of the agricultural industry.

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