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 : Bath

CANDIDATE : Pitman

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. J. Pitman, who became M.P. for the division in 1945, is a grandson of the late Sir Isaac Pitman, and chairman and joint managing director of the Pitman Press. He was a director of the Bank of England up to the time of its nationalization, and for two years previous to 1945, he was director of organization and methods at the Treasury. Born in 1901, and educated at Eton and Oxford, he excelled in athletics, gaining his blue at Oxford in rugby, playing for England against Scotland, and winning the Public Schools middle-weight boxing championship in 1919.

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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 : Bilston

CANDIDATE : Godrich

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Godrich, born in 1915, became works manager of a wire and steel firm in 1937, and in 1942 a director. In 1944 he set up as a consulting engineer in Birmingham. Has been active in ybuth club and church council work and is a licensed lay reader.

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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 : Birmingham Hall Green

CANDIDATE : Roy

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. L. Roy, born in Canada, and 37 years of age, was a sheet metal worker up to the age of 20, and then became an insurance agent. For several years he was an air raid warden in Birmingham, and afterwards joined the R.A.M.C. and served in West Africa.

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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 : Birmingham Small Heath

CANDIDATE : Longden

PARTY : Co-op, and Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Longden, who is a native of Ashton-under-Lyne, is aged 58. At Ruskin College he earned a diploma with distinction in economics and political science. He engaged in propaganda on behalf of the I.L.P. and the Co-operative movement. He was first returned to Parliament for the Deritend division in 1929, was defeated in 1931, and recaptured the seat from the Conservatives in 1945. He is an iron-moulder.

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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 : Blackburn West

CANDIDATE : Assheton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Ralph Assheton, aged 49, comes from a family which has owned land in Lancashire and elsewhere since the Middle Ages. An ancestor, Sir John De Assheton, was summoned to Parliament in 1323. Mr. Assheton was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1925. He was elected for Rushcliffe in 1934, and in 1940 became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour. In 1942 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, and in 1943 Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Before the 1945 General Election, in which he lost his seat, he was appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party. He re-entered Parliament in 1945 for the City of London, a seat which has now been abolished.

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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 : Bootle

CANDIDATE : Hill

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Hill, an architect and chartered surveyor, was born in 1894 and has lived all his life on Merseyside. During the 1914-18 war he served in France with The Welch Regiment and the Royal Engineers. Chairman of several local building societies he is regarded as an authority on housing.

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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 : Bradford North

CANDIDATE : Nichol

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Muriel E. Nichol, who was born in 1893, is a daughter of the late R. C. Wallhead, lormer I.L.P. member. A teacher before her marriage, she is the wife of a schoolmaster, and vice-chairman of Welwyn Garden City Urban Council. She has served on Parliamentary delegations to India and Norway, and was a member of the Curtis Committee. She was elected for North Bradford in 1945. Mrs. Nichol is also active in 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 : Brighton Pavilion

CANDIDATE : Choate

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. S. Choate worked as an engineer in Lancashire and then became a salesman. In 1941 he returned to engineering, and is now, at the age of 42, personnel manager in a London catering firm. He is a Methodist lay preacher.

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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 : Bristol South East

CANDIDATE : Webb

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. F. Webb, aged 44, is an employee of the Co-operative Wholesale Society and president of the Bristol Co-operative Society. He has been associated with the Communist Party for 20 years and for four years was the local secretary.

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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 : Cambridge

CANDIDATE : Josephy

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss F. L. Josephy, who graduated at Cambridge in Classics and English, is a journalist and lecturer, aged 50. She has four times previously contested elections as a Liberal, and is a past president of the National League of Young Liberals and member of the party executive. During the war she did a good deal of lecturing to the Forces. She has been active in the Federal Union and United Europe movements, and attended the European Assembly at Strasbourg last year as an observer.

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