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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Berwickshire and East Lothian Constituency – Biography of Robertson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Berwickshire and East Lothian Constituency – Biography of Robertson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Berwickshire and East Lothian

    CANDIDATE : Robertson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. J. Robertson was elected M.P. for Berwick and Haddington in 1945. He is 52 years of age and a native of the Shetland Islands. Joining the Royal Navy at the age of 16, he was in the Battle of Jutland and was the Navy’s middleweight boxing champion in 1918. During the war he was chief labour officer for Scotland for the Ministry of Supply, and in 1947 was appointed Joint Under-Secretary for Scotland.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fife East Constituency – Biography of Stewart

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fife East Constituency – Biography of Stewart

    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 : Stewart

    PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Henderson Stewart, member for East Fife since 1933, was born in 1897 and educated at Edinburgh University, where he took honours in economics. He was secretary of the Liberal Land Inquiry Committee in 1926-27. He has served on the advisory ccuncil on education in Scotland, and in 1949 was one of a group of M.P.s who toured North America to explore the market for agricultural machinery.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hamilton Constituency – Biography of Fraser

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hamilton Constituency – Biography of Fraser

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hamilton

    CANDIDATE : Fraser

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. Fraser, joint Undersecretary for Scotland, is 39. He started work in the mines when 14, and worked underground until elected to Parliament in 1942. He has held various offices in the miners’ union and has been secretary of Lanark Labour Party. He has shown great energy in introducing new industries into the county.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Midlothian and Peeblesshire Constituency – Biography of Horsbrugh

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Midlothian and Peeblesshire Constituency – Biography of Horsbrugh

    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 : Horsbrugh

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss Horsbrugh, after her defeat, was invited to stand for Manchester, Moss Side, where the nominated Conservative candidate. Squadron Leader Fleming, K.C., had died before polling day. Biographical details are given on page 127.]

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Renfrewshire West Constituency – Biography of Scollan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Renfrewshire West Constituency – Biography of Scollan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Renfrewshire West

    CANDIDATE : Scollan

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. Scollan has been an engineer and organizer for the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers. He is a former president of the Scottish T.U.C. and a member of its general council. He has served on the Glasgow Corporation, and is secretary to the Sugar Confectionery and Food Preserving Trade Board. A past chairman of the Glasgow Trades Council, he entered Parliament in 1945, when he captured Western Renfrew from the Conservatives.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bermondsey Constituency – Biography of Warwick

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bermondsey Constituency – Biography of Warwick

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bermondsey

    CANDIDATE : Warwick

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Warwick, aged 46, is a director of a firm of tobacco importers, in which he started his working life as an office boy. Born and brought up in Bermondsey, where he lived for 26 years. He served as a captain with a tank transporter company in Europe during the war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cities of London and Westminster Constituency – Biography of Webbe

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cities of London and Westminster Constituency – Biography of Webbe

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cities of London and Westminster

    CANDIDATE : Webbe

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir H. Webbe, born in 1885, represented the Abbey Division of Westminster from 1939. After leaving Cambridge he became a master at Oundle and St. Paul’s Schools, and later a school inspector, in the 1914-18 war he held appointments in the Ministry of Munitions. Afterwards he took up a commercial career and is a director of several companies. He was elected to the L.C.C. in 1925, and has served as chairman of the education and general purposes committees. From 1934 to 1945 was leader of the Municipal Reform Party on the council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Greenwich Constituency – Biography of Gilbey

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Greenwich Constituency – Biography of Gilbey

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Greenwich

    CANDIDATE : Gilbey

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. D. Gilbey, who is 38, is a director of W. and A. Gilbey. He served in the R.A.F.V.R. during the war, and was invalided out in 1941. He was British Roller-Skating Figure Champion from 1930 to 1934, and on the Council of the British Olympic Association. He has travelled extensively in Europe in connexion with business and sport.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hampstead Constituency – Biography of Gore

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hampstead Constituency – Biography of Gore

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hampstead

    CANDIDATE : Gore

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Gore, son of a miner in South Wales, is 25, and joined the Communist Party while at college, tn 1943 he became a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, and saw service in the Far East. On demobilization he became an L.C.C. teacher, and now works in St. Pancras. Last year he was secretary of Hampstead Communist Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kensington North Constituency – Biography of Evans

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kensington North Constituency – Biography of Evans

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kensington North

    CANDIDATE : Evans

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Carey Evans, aged 26, is a barrister. He is the eldest son of the late Sir Thomas and Lady Carey Evans, and grandson of the first Earl Lloyd-George. Educated at Oundle and New College, Oxford, he served as a bomber pilot during the war and was awarded the D.F.C. This is his first political contest.

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