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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Epsom Constituency – Biography of McCorquodale

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Epsom Constituency – Biography of McCorquodale

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Epsom

    CANDIDATE : McCorquodale

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. M. S. McCorquodale is 48, and was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in natural science. He is chairman of various printing companies. From 1931 to 1945 he was M.P. for the Sowerby division of Yorkshire and from 1942 to 1945 was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour. In 1939 he was Parliamentary private secretary to the President of the Board of Trade. He returned to Parliament in 1947 as member for Epsom when his majority was 16,294. He served in the R.A.F. at the beginning of the last war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woking Constituency – Biography of Davies

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woking 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 : Woking

    CANDIDATE : Davies

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. Davies was a coalminer at Merthyr for a short period and was then a local government officer for 10 years. He is a planning officer with a London engineering firm. Joining the I.L.P. in Merthyr in 1920, from 1933 to 1935, he was at the head office. He is a member of Wembley Borough Council He was born in 1886.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chichester Constituency – Biography of Packham

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chichester Constituency – Biography of Packham

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chichester

    CANDIDATE : Packham

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Capt. D. Packham, a London journalist, aged 33, fought East Grinstead in 1945. A parachutist during the war, he recently resigned his commission in The Royal Sussex Regiment. Since his adoption he has helped to form many new Labour Party branches in the villages.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sutton Coldfield Constituency – Biography of Mellor

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sutton Coldfield Constituency – Biography of Mellor

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sutton Coldfield

    CANDIDATE : Mellor

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir John Mellor, who won the constituency in 1945, had previously sat for the Tamworth division since 1935. Born in 1893, he was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, and is a barrister of the Inner Temple. He was taken prisoner of war by the Turks at Kut in the 1914-18 war. He is a director of an assurance company.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Salisbury Constituency – Biography of Morrison

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Salisbury Constituency – Biography of Morrison

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Salisbury

    CANDIDATE : Morrison

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. John Morrison, member for Salisbury since 1942, and son of a former M.P., has extensive agricultural estates in Wiltshire and Scotland. Born in 1906, and educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, he served with the Wiltshire Yeomanry in the Middle East in the war and has also been High Sheriff of the county.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Beverley Constituency – Biography of Thorley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Beverley Constituency – Biography of Thorley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Beverley

    CANDIDATE : Thorley

    PARTY : Ind. C.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Thorley is a petty officer in the Royal Navy. Educated at Hull Grammar School, he was a lieutenant, R.N.V.R., Hum-ber division, during the war. After a period in the Merchant Navy, he was for 12 months with the Allied Control Commission, Germany.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barkston Ash Constituency – Biography of Ropner

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barkston Ash Constituency – Biography of Ropner

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barkston Ash

    CANDIDATE : Ropner

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Col. L. Ropner was first elected to Parliament for Sedgefield, Durham, in 1923, and won Barkston Ash in 1931 and has held it ever since. Born in 1896 and educated at Harrow and Clare College, Cambridge, he won the M.C. in the first world war and is senior partner in a north-east coast shipping firm. He has served on the Forestry Commission and been chairman of the Conservative and Union Film Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Normanton Constituency – Biography of Brooks

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Normanton Constituency – Biography of Brooks

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Normanton

    CANDIDATE : Brooks

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. J. Brooks, member for the former Rothwell division since 1942, worked as a miner for 40 years, and for 30 years was branch secretary of the local miners’ union. He was four times chairman of Castleford U.D.C., on which he served for 30 years, and was a member of the county council for )8 years. He received the M.B.E. in 1931 for public services.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sowerby Constituency – Biography of Houghton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sowerby Constituency – Biography of Houghton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sowerby

    CANDIDATE : Houghton

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. Houghton, 51, is secretary of the Inland Revenue Staff’s Federation, and before holding that position was in the Post Office in London and then in the income-tax department. In 1947 he became an alderman of the London County Council, and in 1949, when Mr. Belcher resigned, he was elected member of Parliament for Sowerby.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Merthyr Tydfil Constituency – Biography of Haddrill

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Merthyr Tydfil Constituency – Biography of Haddrill

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Merthyr Tydfil

    CANDIDATE : Haddrill

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. F. Haddrill, an electrical engineer and contractor in Cardiff, was born in Liverpool in 1891. Leaving an elementary school when 13, he worked in a solicitor’s office and entered electrical engineering in the Post Office service. He served as an R.E. sapper, then went to sea, worked in Canada, and returned to Liverpool to join the police. He established his own business in Cardiff in 1920, and is chairman of two electrical trade associations.

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