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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Altrincham and Sale Constituency – Biography of Bibby

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Altrincham and Sale Constituency – Biography of Bibby

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Altrincham and Sale

    CANDIDATE : Bibby

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Bibby is a textile merchant and exporter in Salford, and is 58. Educated at Rochdale Secondary School, he has been associated for 40 years with the Labour movement and for several years was the sole Labour member of Lytham St. Annes Council. n ,,.38 he was chairman of the Labour Party at Wilmslow, where he lives. He is a member °t Manchester Royal Exchange.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bath Constituency – Biography of Hopkins

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bath Constituency – Biography of Hopkins

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bath

    CANDIDATE : Hopkins

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. Hopkins was born in 1907 and graduated at Bristol University, where he is on the staff as a tutor in adult education. He served in the R.A.O.C. in the last war, with the rank of major. He is chairman of the National Health Service executive council for Bath.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birkenhead Constituency – Biography of Trevor-Cox

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birkenhead Constituency – Biography of Trevor-Cox

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birkenhead

    CANDIDATE : Trevor-Cox

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. B. Trevor-Cox became M.P. for Stalybridge and Hyde at a by-election in 1937, but lost the seat in 1945. Ha has been Parliamentary private secretary to three Ministers. A major in the Welsh Guards, he served in France and was on the General Staff from 1940-44. He was born in 1908, educated at Eton and in America, and is a farmer and company director.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Handsworth Constituency – Biography of Bence

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Handsworth Constituency – Biography of Bence

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Handsworth

    CANDIDATE : Bence

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. R. Bence, the son of a farmer, was born 47 years ago near Bristol, and received an elementary school education. For many years he lectured on financial and economic problems. Twelve years ago he moved to Birmingham, where he has continued his party activities. He is a tool maker by trade, and during the war was chairman of the joint production committee in his factory.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Small Heath Constituency – Biography of Smith

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Small Heath Constituency – Biography of Smith

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Small Heath

    CANDIDATE : Smith

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. G. Smith, aged 26, is accountant and assistant secretary of a well-known firm of electro-plate manufacturers. He served in R.E.M.E. in the last war, working with the Army Operational Research Group on infrared equipment. He is West Midlands Area secretary of the National Federation of Old Age Pensioners’ Associations.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackpool North Constituency – Biography of Low

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackpool North Constituency – Biography of Low

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blackpool North

    CANDIDATE : Low

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. R. W. Low represented North Blackpool in the last Parliament. He is 35 years of age and was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1939. During the war he saw service in Greece, Crete, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Italy and Austria and finished his service with the rank of brigadier. He is a member of the board of a banking company, following his father and grandfather into the firm.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bournemouth East and Christchurch Constituency – Biography of Bracken

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bournemouth East and Christchurch Constituency – Biography of Bracken

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bournemouth East and Christchurch

    CANDIDATE : Bracken

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Brendan Bracken, who is 49, entered Parliament in 1929 asM.P. for North Paddington. Ten years later he became Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty and later as Prime Minister. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1940 and Minister of Information a year later. In May, 1945, he went to the Admiralty as First Lord, but lost his seat in the election that year. In the following November he was elected for Bournemouth at a by-election. A director of Eyre and Spottiswoode for many years; he is chairman of the Union Corporation and of the Financial Times.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bradford South Constituency – Biography of Craddock

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bradford South Constituency – Biography of Craddock

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bradford South

    CANDIDATE : Craddock

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Craddock sat in Parliament for three gays as representative of ^outh Bradford. He won a three-cornered fight in f. by-election, but Par-“ament rose two days alter he took his seat «>d was later dissolved. “£. .»s a trade union Pmcial in Sheffield. Born in 1898, son of a boot operative, he was for-mer’y a railway clerk.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol Central Constituency – Biography of Peyton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol Central Constituency – Biography of Peyton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol Central

    CANDIDATE : Peyton

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. W. W. Peyton is 30 and a Londoner, educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. He held a reserve commission in the 14/15 Hussars, and spent five years in a German pnson camp. Called to the Bar in 1945, he later visited India, twice with Sir Walter Monckton, constitutional adviser to the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was married in 1947 and lives in Bristol.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol West Constituency – Biography of Bishop

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol West Constituency – Biography of Bishop

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol West

    CANDIDATE : Bishop

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. S. D. Bishop, aged 28, had a secondary school education and took Bristol University extra-mural studies in economics. He is a draughtsman with an aeronautical company. He has been a Bristol City Councillor since 1946. He is a keen Church worker and interested in youth movements, and a member of Bristol executive council of the National Health Service.

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