CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Argyll
CANDIDATE : Nicholson
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. I. Nicholson, who is 20 and the son of a Presbyterian minister, was born in Glasgow, and spent some years in South Africa. He is a student at Glasgow University reading economics.
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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 : Banffshire
CANDIDATE : Brown
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Brown is the 22-year-old grandson of the late Mr. James Brown, for many years member for South Ayrshire and three times Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. He holds a teaching appointment at Forres Academy.
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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 : Fife East
CANDIDATE : McLaren
PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. S. McLaren, a patternmaker, aged 45, is Scottish area organizer of the United Patternmakers’ Association; and has been a member of its executive. He has had considerable experience in local government in Greenock, and is a member of the Western Regional Hospital Board.
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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 : Bothwell
CANDIDATE : Timmons
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. Timmons, born in 1891, had an elementary and technical education and worked in the pits before he was 13. For 20 years he was a checkweighman, and for 30 years branch secretary of the miners’ union. For many years he served on the executive of the Scottish area of the mine-workers’ union, on the Lanark County Council, on the panel of referees for the Ministry of Labour, and on the advisory committee to the Assistance Board.
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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 : Midlothian and Peeblesshire
CANDIDATE : Pryde
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. D. J. Pryde was born in 1890 and worked as a miner until 1933, when he took up full-time union activities. He served for many years on the Mid and West Lothian Miners’ Delegate Board, and for 10 years represented Lo?hian miners on the executive of the National Union of Scottish Mineworkers. A member of the Bonnyrigg and Lasswade Town Council, he resigned from that body in 1945 when he won the former Peebles and Southern Midlothian constituency from the Conservatives.
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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 : Renfrewshire East
CANDIDATE : Taylor
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. L. Taylor, a solicitor and notary public, was born in 1916. He was at Glasgow University, and is a partner in a Glasgow firm of solicitors. He was at one time chairman of the Glasgow Federation of the I.L.P. and a member of the Scottish Executive of the I.L.P., and joined the Labour Party in 1947. He is also a former member of the Glasgow Trades Council and the clerks’ union.
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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 : Battersea South
CANDIDATE : Tyers
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Lt.-Cmdr. C. Tyers was born in Battersea, and went to Lavender Hill School and Salesian College. After service in the R.N.V.R. in the war he took a hotel in Broadstairs, where he is a member of the urban council. He is a football referee and commanding officer of Sea Cadets at Ramsgate.
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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 : Chelsea
CANDIDATE : Tonge
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. L. Tonge, born in 1896, and educated at the Merchant Venturers’ Secondary School, is a railway clerk, and a member of the national executive of the Railway Clerks’ Association. For six years up to 1939 he was a member of the Swindon Town Council.
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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 : Fulham West
CANDIDATE : Walcot-Bather
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. E. Walcot-Bather, born in 1908, is an architect and surveyor. During the war he was engaged for a time in the construction of aerodromes, and afterwards served with the J*”A.S.C. He was prospective Liberal candidate for North Lambeth from 1937 to 1939.
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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 : Hampstead
CANDIDATE : Hawkins
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. F. Hawkins, head master of Gibbons Secondary School, Willesden, since 1948, was born in Bethnal Green in 1906. An L.C.C. teacher in Shadwell and Shoreditch, he became senior master at Croydon Polytechnic and head master of Newcastle Technical School. He has b;en a member of Leyton Borough Council since 1935, and of Essex County Council since 1946.
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