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 : 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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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 : Watford

CANDIDATE : Freeman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Freeman, who was appointed in 1947 Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, captured Watford from the Conservatives at the 1945 election. Born in 1915, he was educated at Westminster School, and Brasenose College, Oxford, and until 1940 was an advertising consultant. He saw much active service during the last war. Soon after entering Parliament he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for War. Subsequently he was Under-Secretary of State for War.

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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 : West Ham North

CANDIDATE : Prior

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. R. M. Prior, who was member for the Aston division of Birmingham from 1943 to 1945, is a company director. Born in 1893, and educated at Osborne and Dartmouth, he served in the Navy in destroyers and submarines in the 1914-18 war. He left the Navy in 1919, but rejo?ned in 1939 and commanded a fleet of drifters that saved 10,000 men at Dunkirk. He took part in commando raids in Norway and at Dieppe, where he was captured by the Germans. He escaped and joined up with the Maquis in France, but after many wanderings he managed to cross into Spain and finally reached Gibraltar. His services gained him the D.S.O. He was a beach master in Normandy on D-day and later opened the port of Antwerp for the allies.

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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 : Willesden West

CANDIDATE : Ahluwalia

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

The Sirdar K. S. B. Ahluwalia, who is 46, is a Sikh, and a relat:ve of the Maharaja of Kapurthala. He served in the British merchant marine, and, being on the officers’ reserve, was called up in 1940, and was responsible for the welfare of allied seamen in Indian ports. Returning to England after the war, he formed trading, steamship, and air charter companies, and joined the Liberal Party last year.

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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 : Wood Green

CANDIDATE : McEwen

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. D. McEwen was born in Devon in December, 1895. He is on the staff of the Conservative Central Office. From 1914 to 1921 he was in the Royal Field Artillery transferring to the Royal Flying Corps and retiringw ith the rank of captain. In 1939 he joined the administrative branch of the R.A.F. Between the wars he worked for an advertising firm, and later represented a Yorkshire textile group.

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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 : Bedfordshire Mid

CANDIDATE : Howell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Howell contested Mid-Bedfordshire in 1945, polling only 1,881 votes fewer than Mr. Lennox-Boyd. An active trade unionist in Dunstable, he is a bookbinder and chairman of Luton Trades Council. He was one of the founders of the Dunstable Labour Party. During the war he served with S.E.A.C.

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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 : Wokingham

CANDIDATE : Hubble

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. Hubble is a local man, aged 42, in business as an exporter and importer. Educated at Dulwich, he has travelled in Europe considerably and has written pamphlets on civics, economics, and municipal affairs. His particular interest is prison welfare, and he is an official visitor to Reading Gaol, where he gives talks on current affairs. He is chairman of the divisional Labour Party and secretary of Berks Federation of Labour Parties.

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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 : Cambridgeshire

CANDIDATE : Stubbs

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Stubbs, who won this seat in 1945, is a native of Yorkshire, born in 1877. He went to Cambridge as a printing machinist in 1914 and two years later became president of the Cambridge Trades Council and Labour Party. After 19 years on the Cambridge borough council he was made an alderman in 1942, in which year he was also appointed an alderman of the county council. He is chairman of the workers’ side of the Agricultural Wages Committee.

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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 : Northwich

CANDIDATE : Foster

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. G. Foster, barrister and specialist in international law, was elected in 1945. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and was a Fellow of All Souls. Called to the Bar in 1927, he was appointed Recorder of Dudley in 1936 and of Oxford in 1938. He served at the British Embassy in Washington handling the legal side of lend-lease, and was later a brigadier on Gen. Eisenhower’s staff in Normandy. He is 43.

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