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 : Worcester

CANDIDATE : Ward

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. R. Ward, who represented Worcester in the last Parliament, retaining the seat in 1945 with a majority of four votes, is aged 42, and brother of the Earl of Dudley. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and joined the Royal Air Force when he was 21, serving for 15 years. During the first three years of the war he was actively engaged in operational flights as a pilot, and then as a lecturer at an R.A.F. staff college.

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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 : Bedfordshire South

CANDIDATE : Moeran

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. W. Moeran is a solicitor and a local man who has twice stood as a Common Wealth candidate. He was educated at Christ’s College, Finchley, and London University, and is a member of the Haldane Society and of the Atomic Scientists’ Association. He is 40.

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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 : Aylesbury

CANDIDATE : Summers

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Spencer Summers, who lost his seat at Northampton in 1945, is an iron and steel manufacturer, and vice-president of the British Iron and Steel Federation, 1939. In the war he was Director-General of Regional Organization in the Ministry of Supply, and in the ” caretaker ” Government was Secretary for Overseas Trade. Aged 47, he was educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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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 : Cheadle

CANDIDATE : Shepherd

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. S. Shepherd was born in 1912 and educated at Crewe, in Chesh?re. He is a writer on social, industrial and political subjects, and is a manufacturing chemist as well as a director of a film company and transport and catering businesses. For the past four years he has been hon. secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Committee on Trade and Industry.

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