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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Middleton and Prestwich Constituency – Biography of Gates

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Middleton and Prestwich Constituency – Biography of Gates

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Middleton and Prestwich

    CANDIDATE : Gates

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. E. Gates was first returned for this division at a by-election in 1940, and was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning from 1943 to 1945. He is a founder member of the Tory Reform committee and was honorary secretary of the Conservative Party committee on town and country planning in the last Parliament. Born in 1903 and educated at Repton and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he has closely studied political, economic, and social conditions in many countries.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westhoughton Constituency – Biography of Davies

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westhoughton Constituency – Biography of Davies

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Westhoughton

    CANDIDATE : Davies

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. J. Davies, aged 72, has been M.P. for this division since 1921. He started work at 13 as a farm labourer, then became a miner, and afterwards a Cooperative Society cashier. He organized shop assistants and in 1906 became an official of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers Union, remaining with the union for over 40 years. He was Undersecretary at the Home Office in the 1924 Labour Government, and served 10 years on Manchester City Council. His special interests in Parliament have been social insurance, factory legislation, and world peace.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Holland with Boston Constituency – Biography of Butcher

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Holland with Boston Constituency – Biography of Butcher

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Holland with Boston

    CANDIDATE : Butcher

    PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. W. Butcher, theNational Liberal Chief Whip, has represented this division since 1937. Born in 1901, he went 1 to Hastings Grammar School and the College of Estate Management, and is a surveyor and land agent. He has a farm near Boston and served on Peterborough County Council from 1931 to 1937. In 1944 he went on a Parliamentary delegation to Australia and New Zealand.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Horncastle Constituency – Biography of Clark

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Horncastle Constituency – Biography of Clark

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Horncastle

    CANDIDATE : Clark

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. H. Clark, a teacher with farming as ? side line, has been secretary and chairman of the Gainsborough division of the Labour Party and, since 1946, a member of the Lindsey County Council. During the 1914-18 war he served with The Sherwood Foresters and was taken prisoner. His four sons all served in the R.A.C. in the late war. Born in 1893, he studied at Nottingham University College and at London University.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk North Constituency – Biography of Gooch

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk North Constituency – Biography of Gooch

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norfolk North

    CANDIDATE : Gooch

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. G. Gooch, elected for the constituency in 1945, is president of the National Union of Agricultural Workers and a member of the Agricultural Committee of the International Labour Office. He was United Kingdom adviser at meetings of the Food and Agriculture Organization in Quebec and Copenhagen. Born in Norfolk, where he is a county alderman and a magistrate, he is 59 years old.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Peterborough Constituency – Biography of Nicholls

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Peterborough Constituency – Biography of Nicholls

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Peterborough

    CANDIDATE : Nicholls

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Nicholls, son of a miner, of Walsall, was born in 1912. A barrister of Middle Temple, he has not practised, and is in business at Walsall as a surveyor. Keenly interested in local government in Staffordshire, he is chairman of Darlaston U.D.C. During the war he served in the Royal Engineers in India and Burma, flying home to fight Nelson and Colne at the last General Election.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bassetlaw Constituency – Biography of Bellenger

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bassetlaw Constituency – Biography of Bellenger

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bassetlaw

    CANDIDATE : Bellenger

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. J. Bellenger has represented the constituency since 1935. He served in the Army in the early part of the war, attaining the rank of captain, and was at Dunkirk. When the Labour Government was formed in 1945 he was appointed Under-Secre-tary of State for War, and was Secretary of State for War in 1946 and 1947. He is a surveyor. After resigning his commission he wrote for a Sunday newspaper on service topics.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rushcliffe Constituency – Biography of Lawson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rushcliffe Constituency – Biography of Lawson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rushcliffe

    CANDIDATE : Lawson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Lawson, deputy city engineer of Nottingham, was Common Wealth M.P. for Skipton (Yorkshire), being returned at a by-election in 1944 and defeated in 1945 in Harrow West. He is 37, and joined the Royal Engineers in October, 1939, and was commissioned in the following May. He served on the ground staff of a much-bombed airfield during the Battle of Britain, and later spent three years in Gibraltar.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wrekin, The Constituency – Biography of Bibbings

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wrekin, The Constituency – Biography of Bibbings

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wrekin, The

    CANDIDATE : Bibbings

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Capt. F. G. Bibbings is chief public relations officer of the Road Haulage Association. He has served on the Yorkshire Conciliation Board of the road transport industry and the joint industrial board for municipal employees. He has also had local government experience. In the first world war he was commissioned from the ranks, and in the second was captured at Dunkirk while serving with the Royal Engineers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Yeovil Constituency – Biography of Kingsmill

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Yeovil Constituency – Biography of Kingsmill

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Yeovil

    CANDIDATE : Kingsmill

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. W. H. Kings-mill, who became M.P. for the division in 1945, is a member of a family whose records go back to the days of King John. Born in 1905 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he later became a director of a brewery firm and a member of the London Stock Exchange. He was with the Grenadier Guards at Dunkirk, and later fought with the ” Desert Rats ” in North Africa.

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