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 : Stockport South

CANDIDATE : Gridley

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Arnold Gridley, born in 1878, has represented Stockport since 1935. Manager of an electric lighting and tramways company at the age of 22, he has a wide experience in electricity supply and was electricity controller for the Ministry of Munitions in 1916. He is chairman of a group of electricity manufacturing and other companies. He was President of the British Association of Chambers of Commerce, 1946-48.

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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 : Sunderland North

CANDIDATE : Willey

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. T. Wil?ey, elected for Sunderland in 1945, was born in 1910, educated at Cambridge, called to the Bar in 1936, and was for a time a barrister on the Northern Circuit. During the war he served with the A.F.S. in East London, and was London regional officer of the Fire Brigades Union. He became Parliamentary private secretary to the Home Secretary in 1946. He is a director of the North East Trading Estates, Limited.

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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 : Tottenham

CANDIDATE : Messer

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Messer was born in 1886, and by trade is a french polisher. He is a member of the Middlesex County Council, of which he was chairman in 1947-48; chairman of the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, and of the Central Health Services Council; and also chairman of the Ministry of Labour Advisory Committee on handicapped children. Entering Parliament in 1929 as M.P. for South Tottenham, he was defeated in 1931, but regained the constituency in 1935.

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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 : Wallsend

CANDIDATE : McKay

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. McKay, who represented the division in the last Parliament, worked in the pits from the age of 12. He was sent by the Northumberland miners to Ruskin College, Oxford, and on returning to the mines became a checkweighman and a member of the executive committee of the Northumberland Miners’ Union. He served for a time on the Newcastle City Council.

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