Tag: 1950 General Election

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kettering

CANDIDATE : Mitchison

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. R. Mitchison, K.C., member for the division since 1945, was educated at Eton and Oxford, and during the first world war gained the Croix de Guerre, and left the Army with the rank of major. During the late war he worked for the Ministry of Labour on the Beveridge man-power survey and was in charge of the Nufneld College Social Reconstruction Survey in London. He is aged 59, and on the executive of the Fabian Society. His wife is Naomi Mitchison, the authoress.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hexham

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : The Speaker

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. Douglas Clifton Brown, the Speaker of the House of Commons, is 70 years of age. Educated at Cheam, Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was commissioned in the King’s Dragoon Guards and served throughout the 1914-18 war, being Brigade Major of the 17th Mounted Brigade in 1916. In 1922 he joined the Northumberland Hussars, and succeeded to the command of the regiment in 1925. Entering Parliament for Hexham in 1918, he has represented that constituency since with a short break in 1923-24. He was Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker from 1938 to 1943, and Chairman of Ways and Means in 1943, when he was elected Speaker. He has stated that he will retire at the end of the present Parliament.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newark-on-Trent

CANDIDATE : Deer

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Deer represented Lincoln in the last Parliament. He is 60, and became an area organizer of the Transport and General Workers’ Union in 1929. He has served on several trade union committees ; is an alderman of Lincoln City Council, and was mayor in 1933-34, and was appointed Sheriff of the city in 1943.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Shrewsbury

CANDIDATE : Langford-Holt

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Langford-Holt, one of the youngest members in the last Parliament, aged 34, is a local man and went to Shrewsbury School, and is a grandson of a former mayor. He was secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Labour Committee and joint secretary of the House of Commons branch of the British Legion. Has travelled Middle Europe, India, and Africa to obtain first-hand knowledge of local problems. During the war he served in the Fleet Air Arm.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wells

CANDIDATE : Marreco

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Marreco, a barrister, 34 years of age, took part in the Nuremberg trial of the German war criminals. Later he went to Berlin as British member of the Four-Power Allied Directorate of Internal Affairs and became chief staff officer to the political adviser to the British Military Governor. He was a lieutenant-commander in the Fleet Air Arm during the war.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lichfield and Tamworth

CANDIDATE : Snow

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Snow, aged 40, who represented Central Portsmouth in the last Parliament, was a Lord Commissioner of the Treasu?y, 1946-49, and previously Vice-Chamberlain of the Household. He was educated at Haileybury and the University of Sor-bonne, Paris, and was for nine years with a rubber company in England, East Africa, and India. He is a member ofthe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, and of the Fabian Society. He served in the Royal Artillery in the last war. He is a gieat-grandson of William Hazlitt, the essayist.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sudbury and Woodbridge

CANDIDATE : Hamilton

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. R. Hamilton is 63 and a former Regular officer in the Royal Engineers, 1905-34. He was elected for the former Sudbury constituency in 1945 with a majority of 247.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Epsom

CANDIDATE : Hudson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. G. Hudson, 25, was educated at Merchant Taylors’ and at St. Edward’s School. After serving in the Royal Artillery during the war, he went up to St. John’s College, Oxford, and was recently called to the Bar. At the university he was prominent in the Liberal Association, and organized 30 ” commando teams” sent by the Union of University Liberal Societies on campaigns in the constituencies.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eastbourne

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Charles Taylor is 39 and has been M.P. for Eastbourne since 1935. He is a director of various companies. President of the Residential Hotels Association of Great Britain until 1948, he then became vice-chairman of the council of the British Hotels and Restaurants Association. He was in the Territorial Army before the war and from 1939-42 served in regimental and staff appointments.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Horsham

CANDIDATE : Nicholls

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. R. Nicholls was born at Worthing in 1904, worked as a chauffeur for 20 years and later as an insurance agent. Until recently he was a departmental manager at Little-hampton. A member of the Labour Party for 25 years he has held many offices in the local organization.

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