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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham South Constituency – Biography of Morrison

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham South Constituency – Biography of Morrison

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewisham South

    CANDIDATE : Morrison

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons, was born in 1888 and received his education at Stockwell Road Board School and Lingham Street Church of England School. He began work as an errand boy and shop assistant, and first entered public life as Mayor of Hackney in 1920. He was elected to the L.C.C. in 1922, and in the next year became M.P. for South Hackney. For six years from 1934 he was Leader of the L.C.C. In the Labour Government of 1931 he became Minister of Transport; and in the War Coalition Government he first served as Minister of Supply and later as Home Secretary. In the 1945 election he successfully contested East Lewisham, and after the revision of the constituency chose to contest the new South division.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poplar Constituency – Biography of Lonsdale

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poplar Constituency – Biography of Lonsdale

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Poplar

    CANDIDATE : Lonsdale

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Major R. T. H. Lonsdale is an Irishman, born in 1913 and educated at Eastbourne College and Sandhurst. In 1938-39 he was engaged on Waziristan operations in India and gained the M.C. for rescuing four wounded comrades. In the last war he was in the Parachute Brigade. He won the D.S.O. in Sicily, and he won a bar to the medal at Arnhem, where he led the ” Lonsdale Force,” and was twice wounded. He was heavyweight champion of The Royal Leicester Regiment.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southwark Constituency – Biography of Isaacs

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southwark Constituency – Biography of Isaacs

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southwark

    CANDIDATE : Isaacs

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. A. Isaacs, first entered Parliament in 1923, as member for Gravesend, represented North Southwark from 1929 to 1931, and was returned as its member at a by-election in 1939. He was Minister of Labour and National Service throughout the late Parliament. Born 66 years ago in Finsbury, of working-class parents, he went into the printing trade. Early interested in trade unionism he became general secretary of the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants at the age of 25. He has since been president of the Printing and Kindred Trades’ Federation, mayor of Southwark, and chairman of the Trades Union Congress.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Clapham Constituency – Biography of Draper

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Clapham Constituency – Biography of Draper

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Clapham

    CANDIDATE : Draper

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. G. M. Draper, born in 1919, joined the Labour Party League of Youth at 15, and the Young Communist League at 16. She is now a full-time political worker at Communist headquarters.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Accrington Constituency – Biography of Procter

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Accrington Constituency – Biography of Procter

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Accrington

    CANDIDATE : Procter

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. H. A. Procter sat for Accrington from 1931 to 1945. Born in Liverpool in 1883 he served an apprenticeship to engineering, and afterwards worked his passage to America, where he pursued his studies. Subsequently he attended Melbourne and Edinburgh Universities, studying philosophy, political science, and law, and was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1931. He has patented many inventions connected with the hydro-genation of coal. During the 1914-18 war Maj. Procter served in Europe with the Australian forces.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barnsley Constituency – Biography of Collindridge

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barnsley Constituency – Biography of Collindridge

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barnsley

    CANDIDATE : Collindridge

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Collindridge, born in 1893, went to work in the mines at the age of 13. At 19 he emigrated to Canada, but returned after a few years during the first world war. For 22 years he was a trade union official, and became M.P. for Barnsley at a by-election in 1938. During the wartime Coalition Government he was for two years Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Mines. In 1945 he was appointed a Labour Whip, and the year after Comptroller of the Household. He visited Russia in 1936 with a National Union of Mineworkers’ delegation.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bexley Constituency – Biography of Job

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bexley Constituency – Biography of Job

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bexley

    CANDIDATE : Job

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. Job is an electrical fitter and a shop steward at Deptford East power station and chairman of Bexley Communist Party. He is a lecturer on social, economic, and political subjects. He is 35.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Erdington Constituency – Biography of Fitzgerald

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Erdington Constituency – Biography of Fitzgerald

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Erdington

    CANDIDATE : Fitzgerald

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. A. Fitzgerald is an ex-regular soldier who was born in 1896. In the 1914-18 war he was with The Gordon Highlanders and the Machine Gun Corps, and continued with the Royal Tank Regiment until 1939, when he retired as a staff sergeant. In the last war he commanded a Home Guard company.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Northfield Constituency – Biography of Richards

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Northfield Constituency – Biography of Richards

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Northfield

    CANDIDATE : Richards

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Richards is an undergraduate at Worcester College. He is aged 23, and is a uauve of Swansea. His studies at Oxford were “terrupted by a period in the Forces, but he returned to the University in 1947. He was a SJ of the University Liberal Committee, ad h l id hilf i h y , I y °49» and has also interested himself in the university Liberal Club and the Union of university Liberal Societies.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Yardley Constituency – Biography of Ritchie

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Yardley Constituency – Biography of Ritchie

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Yardley

    CANDIDATE : Ritchie

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. S. Ritchie is 58 and was apprenticed to a firm of engravers in the City of London, later working in Manchester. Moving to Bournemouth, he was employed at a royal ordnance factory in Dorset during the war. Alter being associated with the Labour Party tor a time, he rejoined the Liberals on moving to Southampton, where he has done much public speaking.

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