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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woolwich West Constituency – Biography of Steward

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woolwich West Constituency – Biography of Steward

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Woolwich West

    CANDIDATE : Steward

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. A. Steward is a business man with interests in restaurants, advertising publicity, and farming. He was returned to the L.C.C. for West Woolwich last year. He is active in many local organizations, including the British Legion and the United Nations’ Association; and is a governor of King’s Warren School, Plums tead.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barking Constituency – Biography of Hastings

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barking Constituency – Biography of Hastings

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barking

    CANDIDATE : Hastings

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Somerville Hastings, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, first sat in Parliament for Reading, winning the seat in 1923 and in 1929. In 1932 he became a member of the London County Council, and in 1944 its chairman. He was first president of the Socialist Medical Association, and is chairman of the Health Advisory Committee of the Labour Party, and also a member of the executive. A son of the Rev. H. G. Hastings, he was born in 1878 and educated at Wycliffe College and the University of London. A former president of the otological section of the Royal Society of Medicine, he was elected member for Barking in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bebington Constituency – Biography of White

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bebington Constituency – Biography of White

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bebington

    CANDIDATE : White

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Graham White has had a long career in Parliament, where he became a recognized spokesman for the Liberals on financial and economic affairs. He sat for Birkenhead East in the 1922 Parliament, was defeated in 1924, and regained the seat in 1929, and held it until 1945. Appointed Assistant Postmaster-General in 1931, he resigned the year after when the National Government introduced a general measure of protection. He was a member of the Curtis Committee, and one of the M.P.s who visited Buchenwald camp in 1945. Born in 1880, he is a stockbroker.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Aston Constituency – Biography of Embrey

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Aston Constituency – Biography of Embrey

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Aston

    CANDIDATE : Embrey

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Embrey is keenly interested in the British Legion. Aged 41, he is employed by a wge firm as a costs accountant. He was a territorial before the war and was at Dunkirk with h wth the 8th Bn., The Royal Warwickshire K-egiment.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham King’s Norton Constituency – Biography of Bradbeer

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham King’s Norton Constituency – Biography of Bradbeer

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham King’s Norton

    CANDIDATE : Bradbeer

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. F. Bradbeer was born in London in 1890. He has given many years of public service to Birmingham. Educated at King’s College and the London School of Economics, he was for nine years in the chief accountant’s office of the Great Northern Railway. He then entered the employment of Cadbury Bros., Bournville, and was secretary of the works council. For six years from 1925, he served on the Birmingham City Council, and then after a lapse of two years was again elected. He became an alderman in 1945 and was Lord Mayor in 1946-47.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Stechford Constituency – Biography of Pitt

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Stechford Constituency – Biography of Pitt

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blyth Constituency – Biography of Robens

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Blyth Constituency – Biography of Robens

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bournemouth West Constituency – Biography of Creasey

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bournemouth West Constituency – Biography of Creasey

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brentford and Chiswick Constituency – Biography of Horne

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brentford and Chiswick Constituency – Biography of Horne

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol North West Constituency – Biography of Braithwaite

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol North West Constituency – Biography of Braithwaite

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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