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 : Birmingham Stechford

CANDIDATE : Pitt

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss E. Pitt is the first woman to contest a Birmingham constituency in the Conservative interest. A resident in the Stechford division, she was born in Birmingham in 1906. She is an industrial welfare officer, and a member of the Birmingham City Council and is also active in women’s and youth organizations.

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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 : Blyth

CANDIDATE : Robens

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Robens was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power in the last Parliament, where he represented Wansbeck. That constituency has disappeared in the redistribution. He was elected to the Manchester City Council, and was a whole-time trade union official in the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. Before his appointment to the Ministry of Fuel and Power he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Transport. He was a director of the Cooperative Press.

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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 : Bournemouth West

CANDIDATE : Creasey

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Creasey, author of crime and adventure stories, was born in Surrey in 1908, and wrote his first book at 19. A member of the Liberal Party Council, he took a prominent part in the Bournemouth election campaigns in May and November, 1945. He is a Rotarian, and as chairman of a relief committee for displaced persons visited Wilhelmshaven recently.

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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 : Brentford and Chiswick

CANDIDATE : Horne

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. F. Horne, aged 32, is a teacher, educated at Stratford-on-Avon, Bromsgrove, and Oxford. He has taught at St. Faith’s School, Cambridge, and Harwell College. Essex, and has been private coach to univer-. sity and other students. He is superintendent of a course for foreign teachers of English organized by the British Council at Oxford.

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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 : Bristol North West

CANDIDATE : Braithwaite

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Cmdr. J. Gurney Braithwaite represented the old Holderness division of East Yorkshire from 1939 to 1950 and sat as M.P. for the Hillsborough division of Sheffield from 1931 to 1935. Now a stockbroker, much of his earlier life was spent in the Navy, and in the 1914-18 war he took part in the Suvla Bay landing and the Palestine operations. In the last war he took part in the organization of convoys sailing from the Thames estuary.

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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 : Burnley

CANDIDATE : Burke

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. w. A. Burke, who was elected for Burnley in 1935 was Assistant Postmaster-General from 1945 to 1947.He entered commercial life in Manchester in 1918, and two later became Manchester organizer of the National union of Distributive and Allied Workers.

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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 : Chesterfield

CANDIDATE : Benson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Benson was member for the division from 1929 to 1931 and continuously from 1935 to the dissolution. Aged 60, he was educated at Manchester Grammar school and is a Partner in a firm of estate agents in Manchester. He is chairman ol the Howard League for Penal Reform, and a member of the Home yiuce Advisory Council on delinquency He ls the author of books on finance and accountancy.

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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 : Crosby

CANDIDATE : Burnie

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. J. Burnie, born in 1882, was formerly M.P. for Bootle, being the first Liberal to represent that borough in the House of Commons. At one time he was the only Liberal on the Bootle town council. He served in the 1914-18 war and gained the M.C., and has been mayor of Bootle.

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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 : Darlington

CANDIDATE : Walford

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. G. Walford, aged 41, and the mother of two daughters, is the wife of Lt.-Col. J. E. S. Walford, who contested the neighbouring Sedgefield division. She is the daughter of Sir Murdoch Wilson, who was Unionist M.P. for Richmond (Yorks), 1918-29. During that time she was secretary of Richmond Women’s Unionist Association. She has been a member of Durham County Council since 1946.

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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 : Droylsden

CANDIDATE : Woods

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. G. S. Woods, who was born in 1886, entered Parliament as Labour M.P. for Fins-bury in 1935 and was returned for Mossley in 1945. He was President of the Yorkshire Unitarian Union in 1932-34. He has been chairman of the local Labour Parties at Taunton and York, and he is on the national executive of the Cooperative movement, and a director of the Co-operative Press. He has served on the York City Council.

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