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 : Dumfriesshire

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. S. Wilson, an Edinburgh advocate,, was born in 1916, and educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow Univer?ity, where, he graduated M.A. and LL.B. He joined at Glasgow firm of solicitors, and was called lathe Scottish Bar in 1946. Last year he was appointed an extra advocate-depute in the Lord Advocate’s Office, Edinburgh.

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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 : Ross and Cromarty

CANDIDATE : MacLeod

PARTY : L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. J. MacLeod, aged 37, won the division in 1945 as a National Liberal. The Ross and Cromarty Liberal Association adopted him as their candidate at this election and he received the support of the Ross-shire Unionist Association. In the last war he served with the 51st Division, and was among those captured at St. Valery. His father was prominent in the whisky trade. He has assisted local crofting and weaving enterprises.

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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 : Motherwell

CANDIDATE : Henderson

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Henderson, vice-President of Lanarkshire Communist Party, is a constructional engineer, and has been a member of the national executive of his union for many years. He is also a member of the general council of the National Federation of Building Trades Operatives.

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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 : Kinross and West Perthshire

CANDIDATE : Millar

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. D. Millar was born in Alloa 36 years ago, but has lived in Perthshire since childhood. A chartered civil engineer, he was at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took an honours degree in mechanical sciences. In 1939 he became an A.M.I.C.E. He served in the Royal Engineers during the war, rose to the rank of major, and was awarded the M.C. He is engaged as a civil engineer on the hydroelectric scheme at Pitlochry. He contested Banff in 1945. His father, Sir James Millar, who died in 1932, was at one time Liberal M.P. for East Fife.

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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 : West Stirlingshire

CANDIDATE : Balfour

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Balfour was born in Aberdeen in 1885, and at 19 entered the railway service. He was a parcels foreman before his election for West Stirlingshire in 1945. For 16 years he was secretary of the Aberdeen branch of the National Union of Railwaymen, and served over four years’ on the national executive. He is a former amateur bantam-weight champion of the North of 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 : Camberwell Dulwich

CANDIDATE : Jenkins

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. C. D. Jenkins, a director of a number of private companies, is an alderman of Kensington Borough Council, of which he has been a member since 1927, and is leader of the Conservative Party. He was the mayor of Kensington throughout the war, and represented that borough on the London County Council from 1934 to 1949. He was born in 1900, and educated at Latymer Upper School.

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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 : Deptford

CANDIDATE : Stannard

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Stannard is an electrician who has lived in Deptford all his life. He has served on the committee of the London and South-East branch of the Electrical Trades Union, and is a delegate to the Deptford Trades Council, of which he is an executive member. He served with the R.A.F. in the Middle East, Greece, Italy and France in the last war. Since his return from the forces he has been secretary of the Deptford Communist 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 : Hammersmith North

CANDIDATE : Gee

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Gee, son of a miner, was born in 1893, and educated at elementary and technical schools. While working as a switchboard operator at a power station he wrote ” Politics and the Trade Unions.” Now a journalist he writes on industrial questions, and is also a lecturer for the Empire Industries 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 : Islington North

CANDIDATE : Hughes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Moelwyn Hughes, K.C., born in October, 1897, is a son of a former Moderator of the Welsh Presbyterian Church. He was educated at the University of Wales and Cambridge. In 1941 he was elected for Carmarthen, but was defeated there in 1945. Mr. Hughes is Recorder of Bolton, and was chairman of the Catering Wages Commission and the Cotton Manufacturing Commission.

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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 : Lambeth Brixton

CANDIDATE : Lakeman

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss E. Lakeman, who fought St. Albans as a Liberal in 1945, was born in 1903. She took her B.Sc. with first-class honours in chemistry at London University, and before the war was information officer to the British Flour Millers’ Research Association. During the war she was a radar operator in the W.A.A.F. Miss Lakeman is now secretary of the Proportional Representation Society and a member of the London Liberal Party executive.

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