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 : Ashford

CANDIDATE : Shirley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Shirley, born in 1909 and educated at King’s College, London, served in the Navy as a schoolmaster, and on his release took up farming, in which his wife’s family have been engaged in Kent for 40 years. He combines fruit and dairy farming.

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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 : Folkestone and Hythe

CANDIDATE : Bateson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. R. W. Bateson, a Scot, born 48 years ago, after many years’ experience in local government work joined her husband as a partner in a firm of valuers in Yorkshire and later became a Fellow of the Valuers’ Association. She founded the Yorkshire Housewives’ Union, and is a former chairman of the National Women Citizens Association. She resigned from the Conservative Party some months ago.

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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 : Tonbridge

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Williams entered Parliament as member for the division in 1945. Born in 1903, and educated at Eton and Oxford, he went into business in London, and farmed in his spare time. He is a member of the Conservative finance and agricultural committees, and was chairman of the Small Holdings Committee ; is also keenly interested in agriculture and horticulture, and is a successful point-to-point rider in the locality.

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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 : Heywood and Royton

CANDIDATE : Sutcliffe

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Sutcliffe represented the Royton division (now partially absorbed by Heywood) from 1931 to the dissolution. Born in 1898, educated at Harrow and Oxford, and called to the Bar, he was commissioned in the 1914-18 war in the Royal Artillery. He has interested himself in the problems of the cotton industry and the slaughter of horses for human consumption.

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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 : Morecambe and Lonsdale

CANDIDATE : Fraser

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Ian Fraser was born 52 years ago and was educated at Marlborough and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. In June, 1916, just before he was 19, he went to France with his regiment, and soon afterwards while leading a bombing party was shot through the eyes. He went to St. Dunstan’s in September, 1916, and in 1921 became chairman of the organization. From 1922 to 1925 he represented North St. Pancras on the London County Council, and in 1924 was elected to Parliament for the division. He resigned in 1936 when appointed a governor of the B.B.C. and returned to Parliament for the Lonsdale division of Lancashire in 1940. He was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1943, and since 1947 has been national president of the British Legion.

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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 : Bosworth

CANDIDATE : Allen

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. C. Allen, born in 1887 and educated at elementary schools and Ruskin College, Oxford, to which he gained a T.U.C. scholarship, is an M official of the Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives. He has be?n chairman of Irthling-borough U.D.C., and was for many years on Northants County Council, of which he is an alderman. He holds a university diploma in economics and political science. His travels have included Russia, where hejiad an interview with Mr. Stalin.

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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 : Grantham

CANDIDATE : Millett

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Millett has fought three electoral contests. He is a surveyor and builder, and for many years took an active part in the National Federation of Building Trade Employers. He has served on Kesteven County Council and Stamford Borough Council. Born in 1890, he was educated at St. Alban’s School, Holborn, and Northampton Polytechnic.

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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 : Spelthorne

CANDIDATE : Temple

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. W. Temple contested Spelthorne three times previously. A former advertisement manager for several periodicals and free-lance journalist, he has been a lecturer for the Ministry of Information and Central Office of Information. He served with the R.N.A.S. in the 1914-18 war, and, during the last war, toured the ” invasion coast ” lecturing on anti-invasion measures. He lives in 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 : Norfolk South

CANDIDATE : Mayhew

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. P. Mayhew, who won the seat in 1945, was appointed Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1946 and retained the post to the end of the Parliament. Son of a former High Sheriff of Norfolk, he was educated at Haileybury and Oxford, where he won the University Economics Prize and became president of the Union. Joining the Territorial Army after Munich, he landed in France in 1939 and later served in Africa and Sicily with the commando detachment of the ” Phantom ” regiment, and with special forces from Normandy to the Baltic.

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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 : Northamptonshire South

CANDIDATE : Webb

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Webb stood as Common Wealth candidate at Daventry in 1945. He is 48 and went to elementary and grammar schools at Northampton, and is a boot and shoe manufacturer. An active worker in the Congregational Church, his main interest is the Boys’ Brigade, and he succeeded his father as chairman of Northampton Men’s Own.

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