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 : Guildford

CANDIDATE : Wilkinson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. V. G. Wilkinson was born in 1897 and is a Co-operative Insuiance Society agent. A member of Guildford Borough Council for 20 years, he is a former Mayor and since 1934 has been a member of Surrey County Council. Before entering the insurance business he was in the engineering trade, and at 25 was appointed district secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. He has been a member of the Labour Party since 1918.

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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 : Lewes

CANDIDATE : Kingdon-Ward

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. F. Kingdon-Ward is a writer on travel and lecturer on currency reform, and a director of three companies. She has travelled extensively and has studied central European politics.

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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 : Solihull

CANDIDATE : Lindsay

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Martin Lindsay, who was elected for the division in 1945, is an author and director of companies. During the war he served in Norway and North-West Europe, and was wounded, twice mentioned in dispatches, and awarded the D.S.O. as a battalion commander. Previously he had undertaken extensive explorations in Central Africa and the Arctic. He is chairman of the Midland Union of Conservative Associations. Born in 1905, he was educated at Wellington and Sandhurst.

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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 : Chippenham

CANDIDATE : Drain

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Drain, born in 1918, gained the Bryce Memorial Scholarship in History and the Watton Scholarship at London University and studied for the Bar. A staff captain in Persia and Iraq during the war he later joined the staff of the Institute of Hospital Administrators and engaged in the organization of the National Whitley Council for health service employees. He is secretary of the Central London Fabian Society.

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