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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cornwall North Constituency – Biography of Richardson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cornwall North Constituency – Biography of Richardson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cornwall North

    CANDIDATE : Richardson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. L. Richardson was born near Salisbury 34 years ago, and now lives in Penzance. He is senior radiographer at the West Cornwall Hospital. He joined the Penzance Borough Council in 1946, and is a member of the executive committee of the South West Regional Council of the Labour Party and of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Belper Constituency – Biography of Argyle

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Belper Constituency – Biography of Argyle

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Belper

    CANDIDATE : Argyle

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. M. V. Argyle, a barrister on the Midland Circuit, and 34 years of age, was educated at Westminster and Cambridge. He served eight years in the Army, becoming adjutant of the 7th Queen’s Own Hussars, with whom he won the M.C. in Italy. After the war he was D.A.Q.M.G. Bermuda, and later was attached to the Judge Advocate General’s staff at the War Office.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derbyshire West Constituency – Biography of Gratton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derbyshire West Constituency – Biography of Gratton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Derbyshire West

    CANDIDATE : Gratton

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. N. Gratton, a Derbyshi?e man born in 1889, worked first as a half-timer and was for 30 years a cotton doubler. He is an alderman of the Derbyshire County Council. For 11 years he was chairman of the West Derbyshire Labour Party, and an area organizer of the National Union of Municipal and General Workers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Torrington Constituency – Biography of Chappell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Torrington Constituency – Biography of Chappell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Torrington

    CANDIDATE : Chappell

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. B. H. Chappell, an ex-regular soldier, was an Exeter policeman from 1926 to 1939, when he resigned on winning £13,000 in a football pool. He then became a licensee at North Tawton, and is now a private inquiry agent in Exeter. He is the holder of all-round sportsman trophies in the Coldstream Guards and Exeter Police. Ex-chairman of South Molton Labour Party. He is the father of 13 children.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bishop Auckland Constituency – Biography of Malby

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bishop Auckland Constituency – Biography of Malby

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bishop Auckland

    CANDIDATE : Malby

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. W. Malby was born in Norfolk in 1892, went to Bradford with his parents, and entered the textile trade and became an export manager, and now lives in the Bishop Auckland constituency and represents a firm of cattle manufacturers. He is a member of the Gladstone Liberal Club, Bradford, and was a founder member of the West Riding branch of the Institute of Export.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Jarrow Constituency – Biography of Chalkley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Jarrow Constituency – Biography of Chalkley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Jarrow

    CANDIDATE : Chalkley

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Chalkley was born in 1925 and was educated at Charterhouse School, the London School, Washington, and Harvard University. He is engaged in a mail-order business. He served with the army during the war, and was demobilized with the rank of captain.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Epping Constituency – Biography of Davies

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Epping 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 : Epping

    CANDIDATE : Davies

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. N. B. Davies, born in 1920, was educated at Eton and in France and Germany, and then entered Sandhurst. During the war he served with the Guards in the Near East and Italy. He speaks seven foreign languages and is managing director of an Essex company.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cirencester and Tewkesbury Constituency – Biography of Morrison

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cirencester and Tewkesbury 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 : Cirencester and Tewkesbury

    CANDIDATE : Morrison

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. S. Morrison, K.C., was born in 1893 in Scotland. He served in the 1914-18 war, and has represented Cirencester and Tewkesbury since 1929. Before the war he held several junior posts, and in 1939 was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He was the first Minister of Food from 1939 to 1940, and subsequently became Minister ?f Town and Country Planning. He took silk in 1934.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Basingstoke Constituency – Biography of Donner

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Basingstoke Constituency – Biography of Donner

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Basingstoke

    CANDIDATE : Donner

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. W. Donner was member for West Islington, 1931-35, and since 1935 for Basingstoke. Son of the first Finnish Minister to Britain, he is 46, and was educated at Eastbourne College and Exeter College, Oxford, where he gained an honours degree in English literature. He has made a study of imperial development and administration.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barnet Constituency – Biography of Maudling

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barnet Constituency – Biography of Maudling

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barnet

    CANDIDATE : Maudling

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Maudling is 32 and a barrister, who has served in the R.A.F. and in the Air Ministry as the Minister’s private secretary. He is head of the Conservative Party’s economic department, and has been personal adviser on these subjects to Mr. Churchill. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School and Merton College, Oxford.

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