CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wycombe
CANDIDATE : Leigh
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. E. Leigh is a journalist who became London secretary of the Tenants’ Defence League. She was secretary of the Amersham and Chesham Communist Party in 1944.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Macclesfield
CANDIDATE : Blackburn
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. Blackburn, born in 1903 near Blackburn, and a teacher for 27 years, is languages master at North Manchester High School. For nine years he has served on Middleton (Lancashire) Town Council, and for four years has been chairman of the education committee. A former chairman of the Labour and Fabian Societies at Middleton, he has published books on local government reform.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bodmin
CANDIDATE : Foot
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. John Foot, a Plymouth solicitor and a son of Mr. Isaac Foot, a former M.P. for Bodmin. He was born in 1909, and graduated in law at Oxford, where he was president of the Union in 1931. During the war, he served as a major with the Wessex Division. He has contested three elections.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Penrith and The Border
CANDIDATE : Taylor
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. C. J. Taylor is a director of a Carlisle firm of manufacturing chemists, and a member of the Supervisory Staffs’, Executives’, and Technicians’ Union. He has been a Labour member of the Carlisle City Council since 1945, and is chairman of the Housing Management Committee.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ilkeston
CANDIDATE : MacPherson
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. E. MacPherson, son of a former Labour member, began work as office boy with a Manchester textile firm. Afterwards he started in business in Nottingham and is now a director of three businesses, one of them a co-ownership firm. He is a member of the Society of Friends.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tavistock
CANDIDATE : Munning
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. W. H. Munning is a bachelor, 54 years old, ?nd a farmer and social worker. He comes of an old Norfolk Liberal family and for 25 years was a Methodist local preacher. He has done much work for youth clubs and prison reform, and his interests include opera, choral singing, organ building, and drama.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorset South
CANDIDATE : Stacey
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. N. Stacey, teacher and W.E.A. lecturer, is a former Liberal who joined the Socialists. A graduate of Bristol University, he is chairman of Southwick Rural District Council and has been active in the Fabian Society, the National Union of Teachers, and as a lay preacher. He is also an executive member of the south-west region of the United Nations Association.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Durham (City)
CANDIDATE : Laslett
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Lt.-Col. H. C. R. Laslett, who retired from the Indian Army in 1947 after 20 years’ military service, is 43. A native of Riga, Latvia, he spent the first eight years of his life in Russia, where his father was in the timber trade. After leaving Fettes he worked with a London banking company, then enlisted in the Army and later went through Sandhurst, being commissioned in the Indian Army in 1931. During the last war he served with the 51st Highland Division, and was a prisoner of war for five years. He is the northern counties representative on the Conservative central board of finance.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Billericay
CANDIDATE : Oram
PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. E. Oram, who contested the Lewes Division in 1945, has a record of 16 years’ activity in the Labour and Co-operative movements in Reading and Brighton, and is a research officer of the Co-operative Party. Born in 1913, he graduated from the London School of Economics and worked as a teacher in Reading. During the war he served with the Royal Artillery.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Saffron Walden
CANDIDATE : Butler
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. A. Butler, after gaining high educational distinctions at Cambridge went into Parliament in 1929. His name has been given to the Education Act of 1944 which he piloted through Parliament when Minister of Education, and he held Ministerial posts at the India Office, the Foreign Office, and the Ministry of Labour. After the Conservative Party passed into Opposition in 1945, Mr. Butler took a leading part in the work of its reorganization and the drafting of the policy programme for the present election, becoming chairman of the Conservative Research Department in 1946. He was born in India in 1902, and educated at Marlborough and Cambridge, where his father, after a distinguished career in India, became Master of Pembroke College.
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