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 : Horsham

CANDIDATE : Marchant

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss E. M. Marchant was born at Mansfield, Notts, in 1888, and was educated at Mansfield and Royal Holloway College. After teaching at Westcliff-on-Sea, Darlington, and Mansfield, she was head mistress of Horsham High School for Girls for 28 years, retiring last year.

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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 : Warwick and Leamington

CANDIDATE : Bithell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Bithell was born in 1909, and is a native of Wrexham, north Wales. He is an accountant by profession and has been a member of Tamworth Borough Council since 1946. For 20 years he has been a Baptist lay preacher, and is a member of the Baptist Men’s Movement National Executive Council. A member of the Clerical and Administrative Workers’ Union, he has been a lecturer at the National Council of Labour Colleges.

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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 : Westbury

CANDIDATE : Travess

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. J. Travess, who contested Exeter in 1945, has been a railway engine driver and an active member of the National Union of Rail-waymen, being twice elected to the executive. Took part in international transport conferences in Germany, Northern Ireland, and Eire. He is 49.

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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 : Bridlington

CANDIDATE : Pashby

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Pashby holds a position in a Hull firm of builders and contractors. His father is an alderman, and his mother was for 20 years a member of Hull City Council. He has worked for the Labour Party in several capacities.

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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 : Colne Valley

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. E. E. Smith, wife of the head of a cotton spinning firm, and the mother of four children, gained her B.A. degree at Manchester University, where she was at one time adviser on agricultural economics. She is a member of the West Riding County 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 : Penistone

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. F. Smith was born in 1920 and educated at Giggleswick School and in Sweden, where he studied the manufacture of steel, and is a steel wire manufacturer. During the war he served abroad in the Army and attained the rank of captain. He is a member of the National Insurance Appeal Tribunal and the Yorkshire executive of the Liberal Party.

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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 : Aberdare

CANDIDATE : Hinton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. ?. E. Hinton is managing director of a firm manufacturing combustion stoves. He was born in 1901 and held posts in shipping in India and Burma from 1922 to 1930. Serving with the Royal Engineers, 1939-46, he held a staff appointment at Southern Command H.Q. He was elected to Watford Borough Council in 1946.

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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 : Newport

CANDIDATE : Owen

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Owen, a Cardiff barrister, was born in 1922 and educated at Swansea Technical College and University College Law School. While there during the war, he volunteered for air crew duty and served in the R.A.F. for five years, becoming a flight lieutenant. On his release in 1946 he resumed legal studies at Lincoln’s Inn and is in practice in Cardiff.

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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 : Breconshire and Radnorshire

CANDIDATE : Gibson-Watt

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. J. D. Gibson-Watt, is 34 and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He is farming in Radnorshire and is a member of the Welsh Land Settlement Society and the Radnorshire County Council. He served with the Welsh Guards in North Africa in the war, and won the Military Cross and two bars. He finished the war as instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He is fifth in descent from James Watt, inventor of the steam engine.

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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 : Llanelli

CANDIDATE : Owen

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. P. Owen, who unsuccessfully contested East Surrey in 1945, is an accountant and director of a textile company in the county and a member of the committee of the Textile Institute. Born in North Wales in 1920, he served in the Army throughout the war.

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