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 : Glasgow Hillhead

CANDIDATE : Thomson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. M. Thomson, aged 29, is editor of a Scottish Socialist journal. He has not hitherto played a prominent part in local politics. He is a member of the Fabian Society and served six years in the R.A.F. He is a lecturer on current affairs for the extra-mural department of Glasgow University.

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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 : Glasgow Shettleston

CANDIDATE : McGovern

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. McGovern, a former plumber and insurance agent, and once regarded as the ” stormy petrel ” of the Labour movement, led ” hunger marches ” from Glasgow to Edinburgh and London. He has been arrested on several occasions in connexion with free speech campaigns. Elected as an l.L.P. member in 1930, he joined the Labour Party in 1947. He has served on Glasgow Town Council and is a member of the Co-operative movement.

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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 : Greenock

CANDIDATE : Campbell

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. R. Campbell contested the constituency in 1945. He is a member of the executive of the Communist Party and was appointed editor of the Daily Worker about a year ago. He was directly involved in the overthrow of the Labour Government in 1924, and in 1925 was arrested, along with other members of the Communist Party, and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. He won the military medal in the 1914-18 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 : North Angus and Mearns

CANDIDATE : Thornton-Kemsley

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Colin Thornton-Kemsley represented Kincardine and W. Aberdeen from 1939. Born in 1903, he was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, and for a time practised in the family firm of chartered surveyors in London. He is a director of the John Lewis Partnership. During the war he held staff appointments with ths Royal Artillery and was Assistant Quartermaster-General, Eastern Command, with the rank of colonel.

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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 : Kilmarnock

CANDIDATE : Ross

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Ross won Kilmarnock in a by-election in 1946, after having been defeated in Ayr Burghs in 1945. Thirty-eight years of age, he is a graduate of Glasgow University and a teacher. He served in The Highland Light Infantry in India, Burma, and Singapore, and latterly was at Lord Mountbatten’s headquarters in Ceylon with the rank of major.

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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 : Dumfriesshire

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. S. Wilson, an Edinburgh advocate,, was born in 1916, and educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow Univer?ity, where, he graduated M.A. and LL.B. He joined at Glasgow firm of solicitors, and was called lathe Scottish Bar in 1946. Last year he was appointed an extra advocate-depute in the Lord Advocate’s Office, Edinburgh.

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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 : Ross and Cromarty

CANDIDATE : MacLeod

PARTY : L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. J. MacLeod, aged 37, won the division in 1945 as a National Liberal. The Ross and Cromarty Liberal Association adopted him as their candidate at this election and he received the support of the Ross-shire Unionist Association. In the last war he served with the 51st Division, and was among those captured at St. Valery. His father was prominent in the whisky trade. He has assisted local crofting and weaving enterprises.

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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 : Motherwell

CANDIDATE : Henderson

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Henderson, vice-President of Lanarkshire Communist Party, is a constructional engineer, and has been a member of the national executive of his union for many years. He is also a member of the general council of the National Federation of Building Trades Operatives.

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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 : Kinross and West Perthshire

CANDIDATE : Millar

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. D. Millar was born in Alloa 36 years ago, but has lived in Perthshire since childhood. A chartered civil engineer, he was at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took an honours degree in mechanical sciences. In 1939 he became an A.M.I.C.E. He served in the Royal Engineers during the war, rose to the rank of major, and was awarded the M.C. He is engaged as a civil engineer on the hydroelectric scheme at Pitlochry. He contested Banff in 1945. His father, Sir James Millar, who died in 1932, was at one time Liberal M.P. for East Fife.

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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 Stirlingshire

CANDIDATE : Balfour

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Balfour was born in Aberdeen in 1885, and at 19 entered the railway service. He was a parcels foreman before his election for West Stirlingshire in 1945. For 16 years he was secretary of the Aberdeen branch of the National Union of Railwaymen, and served over four years’ on the national executive. He is a former amateur bantam-weight champion of the North of Scotland.

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