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 : Flintshire West

CANDIDATE : Leadbeater

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. V. Leadbeater, 41, graduated at the University of Wales with first-class honours in English, and in 1929 was president of the Debates Union there. A grammar schoolmaster at Mold, he is also a university extension lecturer and tutor in English and current affairs. During the war he was an education and welfare officer in the National Fire Service. He is well known in North and South Wales .as a Rugby player.

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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 : Ogmore

CANDIDATE : Padley

PARTY : lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. E. Padley, is 33 and was educated at Chipping Norton Grammar School and Ruskin College, Oxford. Active in the Labour movement since 1932, at one time he was a close colleague of James Maxton in the leadership of the I.L.P. He is president of the Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers, and from 1941 to 1946 was a member of the I.L.P. national council.

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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 : Ebbw Vale

CANDIDATE : Finlay

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. B. Finlay, 32, was educated at Marlborough and University College, London, called to the Bar in 1946, and is in practice on the Oxford circuit. During the war he saw service with The South Wales Borderers, the Royal Artillery, and the Indian Army. He is treasurer of the Hardwicke Debating Society, and has been a member of the executive of the Chelsea Conservative Association.

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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 : Aberdeen South

CANDIDATE : Cruchley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. O. Cruchley, a barrister practising in London, holds the LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from Liverpool University. A member of the Labour Party Imperial advisory committee, she is specially interested in the West Indies. A governor of three schools in Westminster, she is a member of the Society of Labour Lawyers and a member of the committee of the Anti-Slavery Society.

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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 : Edinburgh Central

CANDIDATE : Renton

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Renton was born in Portobello, and has been a Communist propagandist since his youth. Serving with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, he was captured and sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment, but was released under an exchange scheme. After service in the Royal Artillery in the war, he became Communist Party secretary for South-East Scotland.

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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 : Edinburgh South

CANDIDATE : Daiches

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. H. Daiches was born in 1911 the son of a rabbi of the Edinburgh Jewish congregation. Educated at George Watson’s College and Edinburgh University, he practised as a solicitor before being admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates, 1946. Has written many articles arguing the identical nature of Bolshevism and Fascism.

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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 : Glasgow Gorbals

CANDIDATE : Young

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Young, aged 39, studied at the Bonar Law Memorial College, later began business as a joiner, and is now a builder’s agent. He is chairman of the West of Scotland Junior Unionists’ Association.

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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 : Glasgow Maryhill

CANDIDATE : Murray

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss J. S. Murray is 32, lives in Edinburgh, and is the daughter of a Paisley doctor. She took a degree in law and a diploma in social science at Edinburgh University. During the war she was a Ministry of Labour welfare officer in East Scotland, and later assistant labour officer with the Ministry of Supply in Edinburgh. Recently, she has been organizing secretary to the King George V Fund for Sailors in East Scotland.

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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 : Glasgow Springburn

CANDIDATE : Horne

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Horne, one of the most active Communists in Scotland, is propaganda secretary of the Party’s Scottish committee. He has contested both Parliamentary and municipal elections in Glasgow.

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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 : Stirling and Falkirk Burghs

CANDIDATE : MacPherson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. MacPherson won the seat in a by-election in October, 1948, which followed the death in a motor-car accident of Mr. J. Westwood, Secretary of State for Scotland. In 1945 he had unsuccessfully contested Yeovil. Born in 1904, eldest son of a keeper of the Bass Rock lighthouse, he was Dux scholar at Trinity Academy, Leith, and graduated at Edinburgh University. For 10 years a lecturer at the University of New Brunswick, he later joined the staff of University College, Exeter. He served with the Canadian Army in the last war, rising to the rank of major.

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