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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Morpeth Constituency – Biography of Taylor

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Morpeth Constituency – Biography of Taylor

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Morpeth

    CANDIDATE : Taylor

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. J. Taylor was first elected for Morpeth in 1935. He is 68 years of age, and is a miner. He has been a member of Blyth Borough Council and Northumberland County Council. In the war-time National Government he acted as Labour Whip, and in 1945 he was appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and Deputy Chief Whip.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newark-on-Trent Constituency – Biography of Pickering

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newark-on-Trent Constituency – Biography of Pickering

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newark-on-Trent

    CANDIDATE : Pickering

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. H. Pickering is a former Liberal M.P. for West Leicester, and previously had an educational post in Japan. He returned to Japan and when war broke out he was imprisoned by the Japanese. Since his return to England in 1946 he has been teaching, latterly at Coalville Mining College.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shrewsbury Constituency – Biography of Elliott

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shrewsbury Constituency – Biography of Elliott

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Shrewsbury

    CANDIDATE : Elliott

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. N. W. Elliott, a china manufacturer of Stoke-on-Trent, is a member of the council of the Liberal Party and contested Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1945. He was educated at Tettenhall College and Birmingham University. He was mentioned in dispatches in the 1914-18 war, and in the last war was, first, colonel in the M.I. branch, and later in charge of the 16th Staffs Home Guard.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Weston-super-Mare Constituency – Biography of Hill

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Weston-super-Mare Constituency – Biography of Hill

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Weston-super-Mare

    CANDIDATE : Hill

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. M. H. Hill, a 36-year-old London barrister, is chairman of the Guild of Insurance Officials and a former chairman of Beckenham Labour Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stafford and Stone Constituency – Biography of Fraser

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stafford and Stone Constituency – Biography of Fraser

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stafford and Stone

    CANDIDATE : Fraser

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. C. P. Fraser is a son of the 14th Lord Lovat, and is 32. He was educated at the Sorbonne University, Paris, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took an honours degree in history. He was president of the Union while at Oxford. Having served with the Lovat Scouts—raised by his father—in the last war, in 1945 he entered Parliament for the Stone division.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carshalton Constituency – Biography of Head

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carshalton Constituency – Biography of Head

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carshalton

    CANDIDATE : Head

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Brig. A. H. Head was born in 1906 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst. Entering the Army as a career, he first joined the 15/] 9th Hussars and later transferred to The Life Guards. He served throughout the last war, being Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, then on the staff of the Chief of Combined Operations, and later representative with the Director of Plans for Amphibious Operations. He entered Parliament in 1945 and is chairman of the Conservative Party’s subcommittee on the Army.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Esher Constituency – Biography of Chipchase

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Esher Constituency – Biography of Chipchase

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Esher

    CANDIDATE : Chipchase

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss E. E. B. Chipchase, born in 1916, is a clerk in the Development and Research Office of the London Transport Executive. Since 193? she has been a member of the Railway Clerks’ Association and is the secretary of the Westminster branch. She joined the Labour Party in 1941, and was formerly a member of the T.U.C. Women’s Advisory Committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eastbourne Constituency – Biography of Bate

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eastbourne Constituency – Biography of Bate

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eastbourne

    CANDIDATE : Bate

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. C. L. H. D. Bate, a former Regular Army officer, aged 51, was born at Ladysmith and is now a director of a merchants’ import and export business. After two years’ service oversea in the 1914-18 war he was with the Danzig Plebiscite Force in 1920, the West African Frontier Force, 1920-25, the Army of the Rhine, 1927-28, and in India, 1928-32. Recalled on the outbreak of war, he served in North Africa and Italy.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nuneaton Constituency – Biography of Bowles

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nuneaton Constituency – Biography of Bowles

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nuneaton

    CANDIDATE : Bowles

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. G. Bowles, returned unopposed for the constituency in 1942 and re-elected in 1945, was deputy Chairman of Committees in the last House of Commons. Born in 1902 and educated at London University, he is a solicitor. He was vice – chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1946 to 1948. He is a bachelor.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westmorland Constituency – Biography of Vane

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westmorland Constituency – Biography of Vane

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Westmorland

    CANDIDATE : Vane

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. M. F. Vane, chartered surveyor and land agent, aged 40, was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge. Commissioned in The Durham Light Infantry, 1928, and serving thiough the war, he attained the rank of lieutenant – colonel in 1943. He is a landowner at Penrith and Deputy Lieutenant of the county.

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