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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tonbridge Constituency – Biography of Clapham

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tonbridge Constituency – Biography of Clapham

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tonbridge

    CANDIDATE : Clapham

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. B. R. Clapham practised as a solicitor after being seven years on the staff of the Kent County Council. He had previously been called to the Bar, and in 1949, at his own request, he was struck off the roll of solicitors and applied for readmittance to the Bar. He has studied social conditions in eight countries.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Heywood and Royton Constituency – Biography of Hurley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Heywood and Royton Constituency – Biography of Hurley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Heywood and Royton

    CANDIDATE : Hurley

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. J. Hurley, an Irishman, born in 1896, has spent most of his life in Hull, where he became chairman of the Hull Labour Party and a member of the executive of the Yorkshire Regional Council of the Labour Party. He served for 13 years on the city council. He is an electrical engineer.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Morecambe and Lonsdale Constituency – Biography of Gaskell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Morecambe and Lonsdale Constituency – Biography of Gaskell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Morecambe and Lonsdale

    CANDIDATE : Gaskell

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    M?. A. Gaskell, aged 50, is rural industries organizer for the north-west. He was secretary to the Liberal Party in Ramsbottom, Lancashire, where he lives, but in 1922 he joined the Labour Party, and was for a time secretary of the Heywood and Radcliffe divisional party. From 1946 to 1949 he was a member of the Lancashire County Council, and is a member and former chairman of the Ramsbottom Urban Council, resigning in 1940.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bosworth Constituency – Biography of Cripps

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bosworth Constituency – Biography of Cripps

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bosworth

    CANDIDATE : Cripps

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. A. Cripps, a nephew of Sir Stafford Cripps, is 38, and a barrister at the common law Bar, specializing in agricultural law. He manages his own small estate two miles from Coalville. He was a company commander in the Leicestershire Territorials in the war, served in the Norway expedition and in North Africa and Italy, and was awarded the Territorial Decoration.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Grantham Constituency – Biography of Kendall

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Grantham Constituency – Biography of Kendall

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Grantham

    CANDIDATE : Kendall

    PARTY : Ind.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. D. Kendall, chartered engineer, was chairman and managing director during the war of British Manufacturing and Research Co., makers of high-speed cannon for ground and aircraft; and subsequently managing director of a Grantham company which sponsored the ” people’s car ” project. He is a freeman of the City of London and Chevalier of l’Ordre du Ouissam Alouite Cherifien. He has represented Grantham since 1942. He was born at Halifax in 1903, and studied engineering at a United States university.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Spelthorne Constituency – Biography of Craddock

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Spelthorne Constituency – Biography of Craddock

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Spelthorne

    CANDIDATE : Craddock

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. B. Craddock, who was born in Dundee, is a barrister aged 51. Graduating at St. Andrew’s University, he spent 17 years in industry and commerce before entering the legal profession, and has held administrative posts at home and in India and Africa. Serving with the artillery in the 1914-18 war, he was later on the Chemical Warfare Staff. During the last war he was Assistant Director at the Ministry of Supply. He is secretary of the Conservative Candidates’ Association, and has served on many Government committees concerning colonial affairs.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk South Constituency – Biography of Bryant

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk South Constituency – Biography of Bryant

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norfolk South

    CANDIDATE : Bryant

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Q. Bryant, aged 52, and a garage proprietor, comes of an old East Anglian farming family. He started his business career in London, and went to Diss, Norfolk, two years ago. He lost a leg in the first world war fighting with the Norfolk Regiment, but he served again in the last war in the R.A.F. Flying Control Section.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Northamptonshire South Constituency – Biography of Evans

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Northamptonshire South Constituency – Biography of Evans

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Northamptonshire South

    CANDIDATE : Evans

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. Evans, a patent agent, is 41 and was educated at Mill Hill and Clare College, Cambridge. He takes an active part in the work of t?e Society of Friends, and served as chief engineer with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit in China and Burma in the war, and saw the great famine in Bengal.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carlton Constituency – Biography of Pickthorn

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carlton Constituency – Biography of Pickthorn

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carlton

    CANDIDATE : Pickthorn

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn, who was born in 1892, was elected for Cambridge University at a by-election in 1935 and was returned in 1945. Educated at Aldenham and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained firsts in the History Tripos, he is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and a lecturer in history. During the 1914-18 war he served in the London Regiment and the R.A.F. in France and Macedonia. He was vice-chairman of the Conservative Party foreign affairs committee, and the author of several historical works.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Henley Constituency – Biography of Hay

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Henley Constituency – Biography of Hay

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Henley

    CANDIDATE : Hay

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Hay is a solicitor practising in Brighton and London. Born in 1919 and educated at Brighton Grammar School, he has been an office holder in the Junior Imperial League and the Young Conservatives, and was the national chairman of that body from 1947 to 1949. During the war he was lieutenant in the R.N.V.R., receiving promotion after 10 months’ service.

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