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 : Renfrewshire East

CANDIDATE : Lloyd

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. Guy Lloyd, who was born in 1890, and went to Rossall and Keble College, Oxford, was until 1937 an administrator with a firm of thread manufacturers in Glasgow. He resigned to enter politics. In 1940 he won Renfrewshire at a by-election, and held the seat in 1945. He served in the 1914-18 war, and was awarded the D.S.O. He was also in the Army in the last war until his election to Parliament.

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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 : Battersea South

CANDIDATE : Partridge

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Partridge, son of a Camberwell doctor, was educated at Wilson’s Grammar School, and is 55 years of age. Originally trained in accountancy, his principal interests are now in iron and steel, and he is a director of a Wolverhampton firm. He was for six years on Hoi born Borough 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 : Chelsea

CANDIDATE : Noble

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. A. H. P. Noble, who became member for Chelsea in 1945, was born in 1908, elder son of Admiral Sir Percy Noble. He commanded destroyers during the war, and also served in the Admiralty and attended the Quebec and Yalta conferences. He was one of the two Parliamentary observers at the Bikini atom bomb tests.< He was joint secretary of the 1922 Committee of Conservative back-benchers, and secretary of the London Members' Committee in the last Parliament.

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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 : Fulham West

CANDIDATE : O’Donovan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. w. J. O’Donovan, born in 1896, was M.P. for Mile End from 1931 to 1935. He is one of the leading authorities on dermatology, and has been president of the dermatological sections of the British Medical Association and ttte Royal Society of Medicine, and holds numerous hospital appointments. He is a member of the executive committee of the Conservative Party, and was chairman of the London Conservative Union in 1947.

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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 : Hampstead

CANDIDATE : Brooke

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Brooke, leader of the Conservative Party on the L.C.C. since 1945, was M.P. for West Lewis-ham from 1938 to 1945. He had a large part in organizing the Conservative successes in the 1949 L.C.C. elections which produced a ” dead heat.” He was deputy chairman of the Southern Railway until nationalization, and is a member of the governing bodies of Marlborough and Charterhouse, and of the court of London University. Since 1944 he has served on the General Housing Advisory Committee. He is 46.

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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 : Islington South West

CANDIDATE : Bender

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Bender, aged 35, was employed in the building industry at the outbreak of war and afterwards served four years in the R.A.F. He is assistant secretary of the London district of the Communist Party. In 1932 he joined the hunger-march demonstrators against the Means Test.

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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 : Lambeth Vauxhall

CANDIDATE : Dyer

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. S. Dyer was born in India in 1904, and was educated there. Later he became an insurance broker. In 1936 he became a member of Gray’s Inn and was commissioned in the R.A.F.V.R. in 1940. On demobilization he became a partner in a building firm and settled in Hampstead.

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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 : Paddington North

CANDIDATE : McClatchie

PARTY : Soc. Pty. of Gt. Britain

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. McClatchie is one of two candidates representing the Socialist Party of Great Britain, the other being Mr. Harry Young, in East Ham South.

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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 : Shoreditch and Finsbury

CANDIDATE : Rippon

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Rippon, a barrister, aged 25, was elected a member of Surbiton Borough Council at 21, and an alderman at 24. He is chairman of the Finance Committee. At Oxford he was president of the University Conservative Association, and secretary and librarian of the Union. In 1943-44 he was chairman of the Federation of University Conservative Associations.

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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 : Wandsworth Central

CANDIDATE : Grant-Ferris

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Grant-Ferris, born in 1907, followed the family business of estate agents and surveyors, and was called to the Bar in t936. In the same year he won a by-election in North St. Pancras, and sat for that constituency until 1945. He served in the Air Force in Malta and in Egypt, and after demobilization ‘n 1943 returned to Parliament and was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. W. S. Morrison, Minister of Town and Country Planning until the 1945 General Election.

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