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 : Ross and Cromarty

CANDIDATE : Reid

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. C. Reid, born in 1925, took an M.A. degree with honours in economics and politics at Glasgow University, where he is studying law. He founded the Glasgow University Labour Party, was its first secretary and has been chairman. In the last war he worked as a coal miner.

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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 : Lanarkshire North

CANDIDATE : Herbison

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss M. Herbison was born in 1907 and educated at Glasgow University and is a teacher. A daughter of a miner, she has been associated with the Labour movement all her life. She won North Lanark from the Conservatives in 1945. She is the only woman member of the Miners’ Welfare Commission, and she went to Strasbourg last August as the only woman delegate of the British Government to the Council of Europe. She is a member of the national executive of the Labour Party.

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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 : Kinross and West Perthshire

CANDIDATE : McLaren

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. D. McLaren was born at Balquhid-der 39 years ago and was educated at Edinburgh University. Although a qualified chartered accountant, he never practised. As a major in the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, he was attached to the British Intelligence Service in the war. He also served with General Eisenhower’s Intelligence Staff, and was three years at Shaef, where he was head of the economic counter-espionage intelligence. His wife is an official of the American Intelligence Service.

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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 : West Stirlingshire

CANDIDATE : Anderson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss B. M. H. Anderson was born in 1915 and educated at St. Leonard’s School, St. Andrews. She has been a member of Stirling County Council since 1945, and before that she was a member of the Dunnipace District Council for 10 years. During the war Miss Anderson held the rank of chief commander of the A.T.S., and was the first woman member of the Glasgow Territorial 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 : Camberwell Dulwich

CANDIDATE : Jenkins

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. C. D. Jenkins, a director of a number of private companies, is an alderman of Kensington Borough Council, of which he has been a member since 1927, and is leader of the Conservative Party. He was the mayor of Kensington throughout the war, and represented that borough on the London County Council from 1934 to 1949. He was born in 1900, and educated at Latymer Upper School.

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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 : Deptford

CANDIDATE : Stannard

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Stannard is an electrician who has lived in Deptford all his life. He has served on the committee of the London and South-East branch of the Electrical Trades Union, and is a delegate to the Deptford Trades Council, of which he is an executive member. He served with the R.A.F. in the Middle East, Greece, Italy and France in the last war. Since his return from the forces he has been secretary of the Deptford Communist Party.

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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 : Hammersmith North

CANDIDATE : Gee

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Gee, son of a miner, was born in 1893, and educated at elementary and technical schools. While working as a switchboard operator at a power station he wrote ” Politics and the Trade Unions.” Now a journalist he writes on industrial questions, and is also a lecturer for the Empire Industries 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 : Islington North

CANDIDATE : Hughes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Moelwyn Hughes, K.C., born in October, 1897, is a son of a former Moderator of the Welsh Presbyterian Church. He was educated at the University of Wales and Cambridge. In 1941 he was elected for Carmarthen, but was defeated there in 1945. Mr. Hughes is Recorder of Bolton, and was chairman of the Catering Wages Commission and the Cotton Manufacturing Commission.

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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 : Lambeth Brixton

CANDIDATE : Lakeman

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss E. Lakeman, who fought St. Albans as a Liberal in 1945, was born in 1903. She took her B.Sc. with first-class honours in chemistry at London University, and before the war was information officer to the British Flour Millers’ Research Association. During the war she was a radar operator in the W.A.A.F. Miss Lakeman is now secretary of the Proportional Representation Society and a member of the London Liberal Party executive.

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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 : Lewisham West

CANDIDATE : Skeffington

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. B. Skeffington, who was born in 1909 and educated at Streatham High School and London Universtiy, was unsuccessful in by-elections at Streatham and West Lewisham, but was elected in 1945. Before the war he was a lecturer, and during the war worked at the Board of Trade on the concentration of industry and afterwards at the Ministry of Supply as Assistant Director of Medical Supplies. In the last Parliament he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and a member of the Parliamentary delegation to East Africa.

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