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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tavistock Constituency – Biography of Wyatt

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tavistock Constituency – Biography of Wyatt

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tavistock

    CANDIDATE : Wyatt

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Col. H. D. Wyatt was educated at Marlborough and Dieppe Lycee, and entered the Army in 1914. Flis successive staff appointments included a liaison mission to the French Army, 1931-32. In the last war he was a staff officer at divisional H.Q., Malaya; with the 8th Armoured Division ; A.A.G., H.Q., 12th Corps ; colonel on the staff of Intelligence Division, War Office ; commander of North Hants District; and commander of Polish Group, S.W. Scotland. He retired in 1947.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset South Constituency – Biography of Rawson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset South Constituency – Biography of Rawson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorset South

    CANDIDATE : Rawson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. T. R. Rawson, a Dorset school master, claims a strong Liberal ancestry. One of his forbears was guillotined as a Girondin in the French Revolution, and his grandfather was Gladstone’s private secretary. Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was studying in Germany on the outbreak of the 1914-18 war and was interned as a civilian prisoner. He began teaching, which he continued in the United States, after the war. Back in England, he was for seven years secretary of the New Education Fellowship. He is now master of studies at a girls’ public school in Dorset. Mr. Rawson is a member of the Dorset Liberal Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Easington Constituency – Biography of Shinwell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Easington Constituency – Biography of Shinwell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Easington

    CANDIDATE : Shinwell

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Shinwell has?represented the Seaham division, now mostly included in Easington, since 1935, when he defeated Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. He had previously represented Linlithgow for two periods. He was Financial Secretary to the War Office in 1929-30, and Secretary for Mines in 1924 and again in 1930-31. As Minister of Fuel and Power at the beginning of the last Parliament he piloted the Bill nationalizing the coal mines through the Commons, and in 1947 he was appointed Secretary of State for War.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Billericay Constituency – Biography of Hayden

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Billericay Constituency – Biography of Hayden

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Billericay

    CANDIDATE : Hayden

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. Hayden, aged 48, and the son of an Essex blacksmith, has been a builder and contractor in the district for 25 years. He is chairman of the Laindon Chamber of Commerce and of the Laindon Residents Protection Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Saffron Walden Constituency – Biography of Wilson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Saffron Walden 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 : Saffron Walden

    CANDIDATE : Wilson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. S. Wilson has been mayor of Saffron Walden, where he was born, and is a member of the Essex County Council. Twice wounded in the 1914-18 war, he served again in France in 1940 and was one of the last to leave after the French surrender.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gloucestershire West Constituency – Biography of Price

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gloucestershire West Constituency – Biography of Price

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gloucestershire West

    CANDIDATE : Price

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. M. P. Price represented the Forest of Dean division from 1935 to the dissolution. He represented Whitehaven in the 1929-31 Parliament, and was Parliamentary private secretary to the President of the Board of Education. He was born in 1885 and was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where ?e graduated in natural science and agriculture. He is a journalist, author, and farmer, and is the son of a former M.P. for Tewkesbury.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hereford Constituency – Biography of Thomas

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hereford Constituency – Biography of Thomas

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hereford

    CANDIDATE : Thomas

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. P. L. Thomas, vice-chairman of the Conservative Party, has represented Hereford since 1931. He was a member of the secretariat of Mr. Stanley Baldwin when Leader of the Opposition. For two years he was Financial Secretary to the Admiralty in the war-time Government, and a leading spokesman for the Opposition on naval questions in the last Parliament. Born in 1903, he was educated at Rugby and Oriel College, Oxford.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hitchin Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hitchin Constituency – Biography of Jones

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hitchin

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. Asterley Jones is a solicitor who practised in Watford and St. Albans before being elected in 1945 as Hitchin’s first Labour M.P. Born in 1914, he was educated at Tonbridge and London University, and was elected to St. Albans City Council at 26. He has been secretary of St. Albans Labour Party and Herts Labour Federation.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Canterbury Constituency – Biography of Jupp

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Canterbury Constituency – Biography of Jupp

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Canterbury

    CANDIDATE : Jupp

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. K. G. Jupp, born in 1917, is a barrister practising on the South-Eastern Circuit and a lecturer on economics. At Oxford he was a classical scholar of University College and captain of the boats. He served with the Royal Artillery in France (where he escaped from Dunkirk), and in North Africa and Italy, being wounded at Anzio.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gravesend Constituency – Biography of Ayliffe

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gravesend Constituency – Biography of Ayliffe

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gravesend

    CANDIDATE : Ayliffe

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. M. Ayliffe, aged 50 and wife of a cost accountant, has done much voluntary welfare work locally and is a former unit commander of the W.J.A.C., and a member of the Liberal International and of the United Nations Association.

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