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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Isle of Thanet Constituency – Biography of Carson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Isle of Thanet Constituency – Biography of Carson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Isle of Thanet

    CANDIDATE : Carson

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Carson, born 1920, is a son of the late Lord Carson. After being educated at Eton and Cambridge, and passing through Sandhurst, he obtained a commission in the Life Guards and served in Syria, Italy, and Germany. He had intended to follow his father as a lawyer, but the war interrupted his studies and he entered Parliament in 1945 as member for this division.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chorley Constituency – Biography of Kenyon

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chorley Constituency – Biography of Kenyon

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chorley

    CANDIDATE : Kenyon

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Kenyon, a farmer near Rossendale, was born in 1896 and made his way from an elementary school to Manchester University. For many years a member of Rawtenstall Town Council, he was mayor from 1938 to 1942 and chairman of the education committee for 12 years. For 10 years he was in charge of Hollinwood (Oldham) Baptist Church and is a well-known local preacher.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huyton Constituency – Biography of Smart

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huyton Constituency – Biography of Smart

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huyton

    CANDIDATE : Smart

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. Smart, aged 49, and a catering contractor in Liverpool, served through the 1914-18 war with the Royal Artillery, which he had joined as a trumpeter at the age of 15. In the second world war he was chief welfare officer for the Ministry of Aircraft Production and assistant labour officer for the Air Ministry. He was elected to the Liverpool City Council in 1947 and is a member of its children committee, and has been election agent in the Edge Hill division of Liverpool.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : North Fylde Constituency – Biography of Stanley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : North Fylde Constituency – Biography of Stanley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : North Fylde

    CANDIDATE : Stanley

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Capt. R. Stanley is grandson of the late Earl of Derby, brother of the present earl, and son of the late Lord Stanley who sat for the Fylde division from 1922 to 1938. Aged 29, he was educated at Eton and after service in the war joined the staff of the Conservative Central office. He is chairman of Lancashire and Cheshire Federation of Boys’ Clubs and president of the Royal Lancashire Show.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harborough Constituency – Biography of Attewell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harborough Constituency – Biography of Attewell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Harborough

    CANDIDATE : Attewell

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. C. Attewell, an official of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives and a member of the union executive, is 55, and went to an elementary school. He was on the Middlesex County Council for nine years until 1949, and a member of the Appeals Committee for conscientious objectors. He went on a Parliamentary delegation to Austria, and is interested in food and agriculture questions. He won Harborough from the Conservatives in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rutland and Stamford Constituency – Biography of Valentine

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rutland and Stamford Constituency – Biography of Valentine

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rutland and Stamford

    CANDIDATE : Valentine

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Valentine is the first Liberal candidate in this constituency since 1929. He was born at Sutton in Ashfield in 1901, and educated at Mansfield. At first a wholesale grocer at Boston, he turned to the fruit trade and is director of a wholesale firm.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Uxbridge Constituency – Biography of Thorne

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Uxbridge Constituency – Biography of Thorne

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Uxbridge

    CANDIDATE : Thorne

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. C. B. Thorne, aged 53, served as a regular officer in the Dragoon Guards for many years and is the author of a history of the second world war. A director and general secretary of the Institute of Production Engineers, he has a special knowledge of industrial problems.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk South West Constituency – Biography of Dennis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk South West Constituency – Biography of Dennis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norfolk South West

    CANDIDATE : Dennis

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Capt. G. S. Dennis, educated at Weymouth and Cambridge, is lord of the manor of Broad-mayne, Dorset, and farmed in the west before the war, in which he was wounded while serving with the Roj al Tank Corps. He is an expert on crop diseases and a keen rider to hounds, and has won many cups in point-to-point races, and in the show ring. As a cricketer he has played for the British Empire XI and Hampshire.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wellingborough Constituency – Biography of Sayer

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wellingborough Constituency – Biography of Sayer

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wellingborough

    CANDIDATE : Sayer

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Sayer, who contested Bromley as a Liberal in 1945, was born in 1917. He was educated at Bryanston and Stowe College, and left at 17 to travel round the world. On returning in 1936 he entered journalism. He joined the Middlesex Yeomanry on the outbreak of war, served in the Western Desert, the Middle East, and Germany, and left the Army at 28 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Mansfield Constituency – Biography of Taylor

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Mansfield Constituency – Biography of Taylor

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Mansfield

    CANDIDATE : Taylor

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. B. Taylor, a miners’ official, was elected at a by-election in 1941 and returned in 1945. He is 55. In January, 1947, he unveiled the nationalization plaque at Sherwood Colliery, where he had started work at the age of 14 and eventually became a checkweighman. He has been vice-president of the Notts Miners’ Federation. From 1945 to the dissolution he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of National Insurance.

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