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 : Hamilton

CANDIDATE : Fraser

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Fraser, joint Undersecretary for Scotland, is 39. He started work in the mines when 14, and worked underground until elected to Parliament in 1942. He has held various offices in the miners’ union and has been secretary of Lanark Labour Party. He has shown great energy in introducing new industries into the county.

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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 : Midlothian and Peeblesshire

CANDIDATE : Horsbrugh

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss Horsbrugh, after her defeat, was invited to stand for Manchester, Moss Side, where the nominated Conservative candidate. Squadron Leader Fleming, K.C., had died before polling day. Biographical details are given on page 127.]

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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 : Renfrewshire West

CANDIDATE : Scollan

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Scollan has been an engineer and organizer for the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers. He is a former president of the Scottish T.U.C. and a member of its general council. He has served on the Glasgow Corporation, and is secretary to the Sugar Confectionery and Food Preserving Trade Board. A past chairman of the Glasgow Trades Council, he entered Parliament in 1945, when he captured Western Renfrew from the Conservatives.

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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 : Bermondsey

CANDIDATE : Mellish

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. J. Mellish, aged 37, entered Parliament in 1946, as member for Rotherhithe. Appointed Parliamentary private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty in 1947, he, with others, was required to resign in June, 1949, for his vote on the Ireland Bill. He served in the Royal Engineers (Dock Section) during the war, and was demobilized as a captain. An official of the Transport and General Workers’ Union. On the direction of Mr. Attlee 30,000 copies of a speech by Mr. Mellish in Parliament on Communist influences in the London dock strike in 1949 were distributed among dockers.

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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 : Chelsea

CANDIDATE : Robertson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. C. Robertson, aged 57, barrister, served for 12 years as district and sessional judge in Burma. Placed on special duty with the Burma Government in Simla, he later joined the staff of Sir Herbert Ranee as deputy chief judicial officer, military administration, Burma.

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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 : Greenwich

CANDIDATE : Reeves

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Reeves, aged 53, had fought two unsuccessful contests before becoming M.P. for the division in 1945. He was founder and chairman of the Camberwell Labour Party and became vice-chairman of the Society for Improving Relations between Great Britain and the U.S.S.R. He is a member of the national executive of the Labour Party, and of the committee of inquiry into the B.B.C.

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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 : Hampstead

CANDIDATE : Watson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. S. Watson is an industrial consultant, with experience in Canada, the United States, and other countries. He was born in 1896, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Administration and of the Incorporated Sales Managers’ Association. He is a Liveryman and Freeman of the City of London.

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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 : Kensington North

CANDIDATE : Caplan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Caplan, who was born in 1909, is a barrister specializing in commercial law. He was educated at the Grocers’ Company School and London University. During the war he became a major in an anti-tank regiment. He was Assistant Adjutant, General Allied Land Forces, South-East Asia. His wife is also a barrister.

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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 : Lewisham North

CANDIDATE : Hudson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir A. U. M. Hudson is 52, and was M.P. for East Islington 1922-23 and for North Hackney 1924-45. He held officers an Assistant Conservative Whip and afterwards as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport. He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1939 to 1942 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power in the ” caretaker ” Government. He is a director of a firm of publishers of trade ?nd technical journals and treasurer of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. He was created a. baronet in 1942.

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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 : Paddington South

CANDIDATE : Wegg-Prosser

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. F. H. Wegg-Prosser, a solicitor aged 40, was educated at Downside and Oriel College, Oxford. He unsuccessfully contested this constituency in 1945 in which year he became a member of Paddington Borough Council. For a time in the war he was employed in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office.

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