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 : Kingston upon Hull Central

CANDIDATE : Wilberforce

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. O. Wilberforce, son of an Indian High Court judge, was born in 1907, educated at Winchester and Oxford and called to the Bar in 1932. During “the war he served as an artillery officer in Norway and later became head of the legal division of the Control Commission in Germany. He is a descendant of William Wilberforce.

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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 : Leeds Central

CANDIDATE : Delepine

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. V. L. R. Delepine, aged 30, a cost accountant, was educated at Leeds University and in France and Spain. He served with the Fleet Air Arm during the war, and after being invalided out became honorary agent of three of the divisional Liberal associations in Newcastle. He is now hon. secretary of the Leeds Young Liberals’ Federation.

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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 : Leeds South East

CANDIDATE : Hope

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Hope is a farmer and market gardener with a business in South-East Leeds, who has tried unsuccessfully to secure election to the City 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 : Leicester South West

CANDIDATE : Pratt

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. A. Pratt was born in Leicester in 1913, and in 1934 became a fellow of the Royal Economic Society, then an associate of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors, and in 1940 an associate of the Institute of Taxation. During the war he served in the National Fire Service and also in the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance, of which he was a vice-president. Since 1939 he has practised as ?n incorporated accountant and as secretary of the British Hosiery Manufacturers’ 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 : Liverpool Garston

CANDIDATE : Hewitt

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Hewitt is a member of Preston Borough Council and a local Methodist preacher. Aged 52, he unsuccessfully contested Fylde in 1945. He owns a manufacturing firm at Preston.

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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 : Liverpool West Derby

CANDIDATE : Fyfe

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, K.C., sat for this division from 1935. He was born in 1900 and educated at Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and Balliol College, Oxford. During the 1914-18 war he served with the Scots Guards. He took silk in 1934 and later was appointed Recorder of Oldham and became a member of the General Council of the Bar. In 1942 he was appointed Solicitor-General and became Attorney-General in the ” caretaker ” Government in 1945. He went to the Nuremberg trials as deputy chairman of the British War Crimes Executive and there made an international reputation as cross-examiner of the Nazi criminals. In 1947 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Liverpool University.

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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 Clayton

CANDIDATE : Walls

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Walls, a Stockport solicitor, was born in 1892 at Moston. Articled in Birmingham, he won the medal of the Law Society and was admitted as a solicitor. In 1942 he was president of Stockport Law Society. For 17 years he has been a member of the Hazel Grove and Bramhall District Council, and was chairman in 1943. He is vice-president of the Knutsford Divisional Liberal 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 : Manchester Wythenshawe

CANDIDATE : Noble

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Noble, a chartered accountant, joined the Liberal Party last year. Born in 1911, he was secretary to a cotton mill company before joining the army. He served with the Intelligence Corps and the R.A.S.C, and spent three years in India. He is a merchant converter of cotton textiles.

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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 : Silverman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Sydney Silverman, who is in his early fifties, has represented the constituency since 1935. He is a native of Liverpool, and a solicitor. He won his way to the unive?sity by scholarships, and is a B.A. and LL.B. Mr. Silverman has played a prominent role in the Jewish cause, and was a contributor to many of the debates on the future of Palestine in the last Parliament.

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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 : Agnew

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. R. L. Agnew made the Army his career, and from Rugby went to Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the 15th Hussars in 1919 and served with them until 1936. In the second world war he became second in command of his old regiment, subsequently commanded The East Riding (Yorks) Yeomanry and then transferred to the command of the 146th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, serving throughout the Burma campaign. His grandfather and uncle, both Liberals, sat in the?House of Commons.

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