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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bassetlaw Constituency – Biography of Bellenger

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bassetlaw Constituency – Biography of Bellenger

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bassetlaw

    CANDIDATE : Bellenger

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. J. Bellenger has represented the constituency since 1935. He served in the Army in the early part of the war, attaining the rank of captain, and was at Dunkirk. When the Labour Government was formed in 1945 he was appointed Under-Secre-tary of State for War, and was Secretary of State for War in 1946 and 1947. He is a surveyor. After resigning his commission he wrote for a Sunday newspaper on service topics.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rushcliffe Constituency – Biography of Lawson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rushcliffe Constituency – Biography of Lawson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rushcliffe

    CANDIDATE : Lawson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Lawson, deputy city engineer of Nottingham, was Common Wealth M.P. for Skipton (Yorkshire), being returned at a by-election in 1944 and defeated in 1945 in Harrow West. He is 37, and joined the Royal Engineers in October, 1939, and was commissioned in the following May. He served on the ground staff of a much-bombed airfield during the Battle of Britain, and later spent three years in Gibraltar.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wrekin, The Constituency – Biography of Bibbings

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wrekin, The Constituency – Biography of Bibbings

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wrekin, The

    CANDIDATE : Bibbings

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Capt. F. G. Bibbings is chief public relations officer of the Road Haulage Association. He has served on the Yorkshire Conciliation Board of the road transport industry and the joint industrial board for municipal employees. He has also had local government experience. In the first world war he was commissioned from the ranks, and in the second was captured at Dunkirk while serving with the Royal Engineers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Yeovil Constituency – Biography of Kingsmill

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Yeovil Constituency – Biography of Kingsmill

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Yeovil

    CANDIDATE : Kingsmill

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. W. H. Kings-mill, who became M.P. for the division in 1945, is a member of a family whose records go back to the days of King John. Born in 1905 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he later became a director of a brewery firm and a member of the London Stock Exchange. He was with the Grenadier Guards at Dunkirk, and later fought with the ” Desert Rats ” in North Africa.

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

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

    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 : McEldowney

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    The Rev. W. J. McEldowney was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1889. He took his LL.B. degree at Victoria University College and first practised as a solicitor. He served in the first world war for thiee years with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He came to England in 1933, and after spending three years at Manchester College, Oxford, entered the Unitarian ministry, and became a minister at Chester, and then at Newcastle-under-Lyme.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carshalton Constituency – Biography of Clarke

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carshalton Constituency – Biography of Clarke

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carshalton

    CANDIDATE : Clarke

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. Clarke, 37, was educated at Dulwich College and Corpus Christi College (Oxford), where he graduated B.A. with honours. He had wide experience as a foreign correspondent in Eastern Europe, in broadcasting, and film production, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the last war. Since the war he has been assisting in the direction of documentary films.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Farnham Constituency – Biography of Nicholson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Farnham Constituency – Biography of Nicholson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Farnham

    CANDIDATE : Nicholson

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Godfrey Nicholson, member of a firm of distillers, was born in 1901 and educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1931 for Morpeth, where he turned a Labour majority of 16,500 into a Conservative majority of over 1,000, being the first Conservative to win the seat. Defeated in 1935, he was Teturned for Farnham in 1937 and re-elected in 1945. While M.P. for Morpeth, he introduced and secured the p?s age of the Workmen’s Compensation (Coal Mines) Act, 1934. He has twice visited India, and during the war served with the Royal Fusiliers and the Commandos.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : East Grinstead Constituency – Biography of Williamson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : East Grinstead Constituency – Biography of Williamson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : East Grinstead

    CANDIDATE : Williamson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. C. E. Williamson was born in 1897, and taught Braille shorthand and typewriting to blind persons after the 1914-18 war. From 1925 to 1935, she was engaged in social service work in Canterbury and was elected to the City Council in the latter year. First woman mayor of Canterbury in 1938, she served until 1940, when she was injured in a bombing raid. She rejoined the council in 1942.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nuneaton Constituency – Biography of Harris

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nuneaton Constituency – Biography of Harris

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nuneaton

    CANDIDATE : Harris

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. A. Harris is a London textile manufacturer who served in the1 1914-18 war. A resident of Nuneaton, he is an active member of the British Legion.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westmorland Constituency – Biography of Wilson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westmorland Constituency – Biography of Wilson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Westmorland

    CANDIDATE : Wilson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. N. Wilson is a chartered civil engineer and managing director of a firm of water turbine manufacturers. He was born in 1908, and joined the Labour Party in 1942. From 1938 to 1947 he was a member of Kendal Town Council, and from 1946 has been chairman of the Kendal and District Youth Employment committee. He served in the Royal Navy during the war and rose to the rank of lieutenant-commander, winning the D.S.C. in 1945.

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