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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Handsworth Constituency – Biography of Eades

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Handsworth Constituency – Biography of Eades

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Handsworth

    CANDIDATE : Eades

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. W. Eades, aged 30, was born in the division and went to Solihull School. He is secretary of a company manufacturing hydraulic presses. He served in the South Staffordshire Regiment in the war, and was at Dunkirk and in Africa. He was demobilized with the rank of captain. He has contributed articles to the Press on political and economic subjects.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Sparkbrook Constituency – Biography of Shurmer

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Sparkbrook Constituency – Biography of Shurmer

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Sparkbrook

    CANDIDATE : Shurmer

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. L. E. Shurmer, who was born in Cheltenham in 1890, went into the Merchant Service on leaving school at the age of 13. Marrying early, he forsook the sea, and after a variety of jobs was in the Post Office Engineering Department for a number of years. In 1921, he first became a member of the Birmingham City Council, and still serves on it. In 1945 he captured Sparkbrook from Mr. L. S. Amery.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackpool North Constituency – Biography of Muir

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blackpool North Constituency – Biography of Muir

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Blackpool North

    CANDIDATE : Muir

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. E. B. Muir is 39 years old and the wife of a Blackpool doctor and mother of two children. She was educated at Glasgow University, and was a senior scholar at Somerville College, Oxford, where she read philosophy, politics, and economics. For a year before her marriage she was Ewing Fellow attached to the Department of Logic in Glasgow University.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bournemouth East and Christchurch Constituency – Biography of Lees

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bournemouth East and Christchurch Constituency – Biography of Lees

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bournemouth East and Christchurch

    CANDIDATE : Lees

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss D. Lees, born in 1920, is the granddaughter of the late Sir Elliott Lees, former M.P. for Oldham. A society debutante in 1939, she was trained as a nurse for four years, joining the French Red Cross during the war. She served with the First French Army, passed through the enemy lines and nursed members of the Maquis in hiding. She received the Croix de Guerre. Later, Miss Lees was attached to the French Ministry of Information and the French Foreign Office.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bradford South Constituency – Biography of Windle

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bradford South Constituency – Biography of Windle

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bradford South

    CANDIDATE : Windle

    PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. L. Windle, a well-known local solicitor and a native of Bradford, unsuccess-el ?? con!ested the division in the recent by-“lection, in which he stood as a Conservative.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol Central Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol Central Constituency – Biography of Jones

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol Central

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. D. O. Jones was born in London and began working in insurance, but joined the K.L.M. airline as a traffic assistant in 1938. He served throughout the war in this capacity m the operation of the vital Bristol-Lisbon route, chartered by B.O.A.C. He is now K..L.M. regional secretary for the United ?>ingdom lines, and is responsible for organization, staff welfare, and public relations. He is 33.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol West Constituency – Biography of Nuttall

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol West Constituency – Biography of Nuttall

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol West

    CANDIDATE : Nuttall

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss H. Nuttall, a 29-year-old Bath schoolmistress, was educated at Dartford and Whitelands College, Putney. An active worker for the League of Nations Union, she was awarded the League’s bursary to Geneva, 1937. A scholar of music, history, and political thought, she is widely travelled.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carlisle Constituency – Biography of Peers

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carlisle Constituency – Biography of Peers

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carlisle

    CANDIDATE : Peers

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. E. R. Peers, aged 43, is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and holds an executive post in an Assurance company. He was educated at Stockport Grammar School. He is chairman of Bollington (Macclesfield) U.D.C. and vice-chairman of Macclesfield Conservative Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Coventry South Constituency – Biography of Hore-Belisha

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Coventry South Constituency – Biography of Hore-Belisha

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Coventry South

    CANDIDATE : Hore-Belisha

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha was in Parliament continuously from 1924 until 1945 as representative of Devonport, first as a Liberal National and from 1942 as an Independent. He fought the 1945 General Election as a National candidate, and later joined the Conservative Party. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in 1931 and Financial Secretary to the Treasury in 1932. As Minister of Transport he introduced the familiar ” Belisha beacons.” He was Secretary of State for War from 1937-40, and a member of the War Cabinet. While he was Minister of National Insurance in the ” caretaker ” Government, the family allowances measure was passed. Born in 1893 and educated at Oxford and Heidelberg, he served in Salonika in the first world war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dagenham Constituency – Biography of Cook

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dagenham Constituency – Biography of Cook

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dagenham

    CANDIDATE : Cook

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. Cook, who is 52, has conducted many elections as an agent. He is the son of the late Mr. James Cook, who was a King’s pilot when the Britannia competed in Royal Dorset Yacht Club regattas, and he began his early career in the Merchant Service, and served at sea in the first war. He was at one time in a lifeboat crew.

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