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 : Manchester Clayton

CANDIDATE : Broome

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. H. Broome is 27, and won a history scholarship at Cambridge which he could not take up owing to the war. As a test engineer for aircraft he was severely injured during a flight, but later joined the Fleet Air Arm and saw service in the Pacific, and was wounded. On demobilization he graduated at Oxford, and is a technical officer with I.C.I.

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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 : Manchester Wythenshawe

CANDIDATE : Bridges

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. W. Bridges was born in 1904, and, after being a coalminer for a period, became a railway shunter. He was, in 1936, elected a member of the Merthyr Tydfil Borough Council, and became an alderman in 1945. In 1948-49 he was president of the Welsh Regional Council of Labour, and is secretary of the South Wales and Monmouthshire district council of the National Union of Railwaymen.

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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 : Nelson and Colne

CANDIDATE : Green

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Green was born in 1911 and was educated at Brighton College and London University, where he studied history and economics. In 1935 he joined a Blackburn manufacturing firm as London and export manager. Volunteering for the Army, he was commissioned in 1942, and held a staff appointment in the Middle East, with the rank of major. On demobilization he returned to his firm to become a resident director, and is also a member of a Blackburn firm of textile engineers.

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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 : Northampton

CANDIDATE : Paget

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. T. Paget, K.C., is the elder son of Major T. Guy Paget, former Conservative M.P. for Market Bosworth. He graduated at Cambridge University and took an honours degree in law and economics. He was called to the Bar in 1934, took silk in 1947, and defended Field-Marshal von Manstein in the last of the German war trials. He joined the Labour Party in 1929, and was returned for Northampton in 1945.

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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 : Nottingham North West

CANDIDATE : Whalley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. H. Whalley, a retail house furnisher in Nottingham, was born in 1894. President of Burwell Artisans’ Golf Club and member of Nottingham City and County clubs, he recently played in the English Amateur Golf Championship. He is a Methodist local preacher and Sunday school superintendent.

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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 : Oxford

CANDIDATE : Tweddle

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Tweddle, aged 39, went from Ayles-bury Grammar School to work in a bank. Commissioned in the R.A.F. during the war, he served in India, Burma, and Malaya, returning home in 1946 as a wing commander. He is the South-East England regional organizer of the United Nations 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 : Portsmouth South

CANDIDATE : Lucas

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Jocelyn Lucas has represented the division since 1939. Born in 1889, he was educated at Eton and Sandhurst. In the 1914-18 war he was wounded and taken prisoner, and was twice wounded in the second world war, in which he acted as liaison officer (welfare) with the Dominion forces. He was chairman of the Welcome Committee of the Overseas League from 1938 to 1949, founder and chairman of the Returned Prisoners of War Advice Committee, and founder and chairman of the Allies Welcome Committee.

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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 : Reading North

CANDIDATE : Derrick

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Derrick, aged 34, a journalist, was educated at Douai Abbey School and at Oxford. During the war he raised the Local Defence Volunteers at Cold Ash, Berkshire, where he lives, and wrote scripts for the B.B.C. European service.

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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 : Rossendale

CANDIDATE : Backhouse

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. M. Backhouse, a barrister on the Northern Circuit, is 46, and a member of a well-known Lancashire family of lawyers. During the war he was a colonel in the Judge Advocate General’s Department, was later on the D Day invasion planning staff, and was also chief prosecutor at the Belsen trials.

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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 : Salford East

CANDIDATE : Needoff

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Needoff was born in Manchester in 1907. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University, and was northern universities’ boxing champion and general athlete. Joining the family firm of clothing manufacturers, he is a director. He was a member of Manchester City Council for four years to 1945. He is a keen worker for Jewish youth organizations.

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