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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Swindon Constituency – Biography of Reid

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Swindon Constituency – Biography of Reid

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Swindon

    CANDIDATE : Reid

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. Reid is a retired colonial administrator, having served in the Ceylon Civil Service from 1905 to 1931, and filled various judicial and administrative posts in the is?and, including special duty in connexion with the introduction of the new constitution, 1931. In 1933 he was appointed Financial Commissioner to report on the Seychelles Colony ; was chairman of the League of Nations Commission on the Sanjak of Alexandretta, 1937-38 ; and a member of the Palestine Partition Commission, 1938. He was elected for Swindon in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tynemouth Constituency – Biography of Slack

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tynemouth Constituency – Biography of Slack

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tynemouth

    CANDIDATE : Slack

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. B. Slack, a 26-year-old lecturer at King’s College, Newcastle, was educated at Cambridge, and specialized in bio-chemistry. He volunteered for active service in the war, but was directed to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine and engaged in Government research work. He is a member of the Nutrition Society and the First International Congress of Bio-chemistry and an associate member of the British Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow West Constituency – Biography of Paul

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Walthamstow West Constituency – Biography of Paul

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Walthamstow West

    CANDIDATE : Paul

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. A. Paul, who was born in 1915 and educated at Christ’s Hospital, was for 15 years on the staff of a leading oil company until he resigned to fight the election. He is a member of the executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. During the war he served for six years in the R.A.F.V.R., and was demobilized with the rank of squadron leader.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wembley South Constituency – Biography of Russell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wembley South Constituency – Biography of Russell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wembley South

    CANDIDATE : Russell

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. S. Russell is 46, and research secretary of the Empire Economic Union. He graduated at Cambridge, and was formerly a journalist. He was elected to the L.C.C. three years ago, serving on the town planning, welfare, and Parliamentary committees. In 1947 he attended the international conference on Trade and Employment at Geneva, and last year was chosen as a British delegate to the Westminster economic conference arranged by the United Europe Committee and the European Movement.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wigan Constituency – Biography of Webster

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wigan Constituency – Biography of Webster

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wigan

    CANDIDATE : Webster

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. I. S. Webster, a barrister on the Northern Circuit, is 24, and lives at Rochdale. He was the first Liberal to contest Wigan since 1918. As a sub-lieutenant in the Navy, serving with the Fleet Air Arm, he was attached to the first night fighter squadron formed by the Navy and saw active service in the North Atlantic. He is a Rugby Union footballer.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton South West Constituency – Biography of Hughes

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton South West Constituency – Biography of Hughes

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wolverhampton South West

    CANDIDATE : Hughes

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. D. Hughes was educated at Cheadle Hulme School and Balliol. He is organizing secretary of the Fabian Society, and a former member of Lambeth Borough Council. He served as a lieutenant with the Royal Artillery during the war. In the 1945 election he captured West Wolverhampton from the Conservatives. He was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Education and then to the Under-Secretary of State for War.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : York Constituency – Biography of Davies

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : York Constituency – Biography of Davies

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : York

    CANDIDATE : Davies

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Haydn Davies, who sat for the old S.W. St. Pancras seat, was the M.P. wh6 moved the motion to set up the Royal Commission on the Press. Aged 44, he is an honours:, graduate in English of the University of Wales, and studied under Mr. Hugh Dalton at the: London School of Economics. After a period! as an English teacher in London, he turned to journalism, and is an industrial correspondent.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newbury Constituency – Biography of Hurd

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newbury Constituency – Biography of Hurd

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newbury

    CANDIDATE : Hurd

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Anthony Hurd, son of Sir Percy Hurd, M.P. for Devizes 1924-45, was elected for Newbury in 1945. Born in 1901, he was educated at Marl-borough and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and has farmed in Wiltshire for 20 years, as well as writing on agricultural subjects. He has travelled extensively investigating agriculture in Denmark, Sweden, Holland, South Africa, the United States, and Canada, and has broadcast farming talks for the B.B.C. From 1939 to 1945 he was an assistant agricultural adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture, and is a member of the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Buckinghamshire South Constituency – Biography of Dee

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Buckinghamshire South Constituency – Biography of Dee

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Buckinghamshire South

    CANDIDATE : Dee

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Dee, born in 1904, is a draughtsman and was president of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen in 1947-48. He held office in the Balham and Tooting Labour Party from 1924 to 1931, and since 1947 has been a member of the executive of the Southern Regional Council of the Labour Party. He is commercial manager of an engineering firm in north-west London, and in 1947 was appointed to the Council of Industrial Design.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Crewe Constituency – Biography of Turner

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Crewe Constituency – Biography of Turner

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Crewe

    CANDIDATE : Turner

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Dr. J. R. T. Turner, in practice in Nant-wich, was educated at Shrewsbury, Cambridge, and St. George’s Hospital, London. He was chairman of the Nantwich branch of the Conservative Party from 1945 to 1947 and has served on the Nantwich U.D.C.

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