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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eccles Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eccles 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 : Eccles

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. H. Jones, aged 39, studied at Bristol University and as a post-graduate at Oxford. For a time he was a Baptist minister at Wake-field, but gave up the Church to pursue social welfare work. He was a pioneer in the establishment of unemployment craft centres and old age pensioners’ clubs, and is a W.E.A. lecturer on sociology. During the war he served at Western Command.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Finchley Constituency – Biography of Crowder

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Finchley Constituency – Biography of Crowder

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Finchley

    CANDIDATE : Crowder

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Capt. J. F. E. Crowder first entered the House of Commons for Finchley in 1935. Born in 1890, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He is an underwriter and was elected a member of Lloyd’s in 1920. From 1914 to 1919 he served with the Lincolnshire Yeomanry and from 1939 to 1945 he was a staff captain and army welfare officer. For 15 years from 1931 he was a member of Hants County Council and served 13 years on the Fleet Urban Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Grimsby Constituency – Biography of Younger

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Grimsby Constituency – Biography of Younger

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Grimsby

    CANDIDATE : Younger

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. K. G. Younger, appointed Under-Secre-tary, Home Office in 1947, is son of the 2nd Viscount Younger of Leckie. Born in 1908 he was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple, 1932. In the war he served as major in the Intelligence Corps in N. Africa and W. Europe. As an M.P. was chairman of the European Committee of Unrra, 1946-47, and on the United Kingdom delegations to the United Nations.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hartlepools, The Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hartlepools, The 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 : Hartlepools, The

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. T. Jones, who is 50, won the seat from the Conservatives in 1945 with a majority of 275. In 1948 he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Transport. A former railway signalman, he was from 1934 until his election to Parliament a member of the Ponty-pridd Urban Council. In 1921 he was a branch chairman and secretary in the National Union of Railwaymen and then chairman of the South Wales and ?onmouthshire District Council of the Union. He is a member of the executive of the Welsh Federation of Education.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hendon South Constituency – Biography of Tolley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hendon South Constituency – Biography of Tolley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hendon South

    CANDIDATE : Tolley

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. J. H. Tolley, aged 54, has been twice British amateur golf champion, twice French open golf champion and twice Welsh open amateur golf champion. He was last year’s captain of the Royal and Ancient Club. He has been connected with the Stock Exchange for many years and has also lived in New York. He won the M.C. at Ypres in the 1914-18 war and in the last war commanded a company of The Royal Sussex Regt.. and was a liaison officer with the United States Army.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huddersfield West Constituency – Biography of Wade

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huddersfield West Constituency – Biography of Wade

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huddersfield West

    CANDIDATE : Wade

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Donald Wade is a partner in a Leeds firm of solicitors, and was formerly a lecturer in law at Leeds University. Has taken part in Yorkshire Liberal activities for many years and is chairman of the Yorkshire Liberal Federation, a member of the Liberal Party Executive, and also hon. treasurer of the Yorkshire Congregational Union. He was born at Ukley in 1904.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kingston upon Hull Central Constituency – Biography of Wilberforce

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kingston upon Hull Central Constituency – Biography of Wilberforce

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kingston upon Hull Central

    CANDIDATE : Wilberforce

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. O. Wilberforce, son of an Indian High Court judge, was born in 1907, educated at Winchester and Oxford and called to the Bar in 1932. During “the war he served as an artillery officer in Norway and later became head of the legal division of the Control Commission in Germany. He is a descendant of William Wilberforce.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds Central Constituency – Biography of Delepine

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds Central Constituency – Biography of Delepine

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds Central

    CANDIDATE : Delepine

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. V. L. R. Delepine, aged 30, a cost accountant, was educated at Leeds University and in France and Spain. He served with the Fleet Air Arm during the war, and after being invalided out became honorary agent of three of the divisional Liberal associations in Newcastle. He is now hon. secretary of the Leeds Young Liberals’ Federation.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds South East Constituency – Biography of Hope

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds South East Constituency – Biography of Hope

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds South East

    CANDIDATE : Hope

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Hope is a farmer and market gardener with a business in South-East Leeds, who has tried unsuccessfully to secure election to the City Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leicester South West Constituency – Biography of Pratt

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leicester South West Constituency – Biography of Pratt

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leicester South West

    CANDIDATE : Pratt

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. A. Pratt was born in Leicester in 1913, and in 1934 became a fellow of the Royal Economic Society, then an associate of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors, and in 1940 an associate of the Institute of Taxation. During the war he served in the National Fire Service and also in the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance, of which he was a vice-president. Since 1939 he has practised as ?n incorporated accountant and as secretary of the British Hosiery Manufacturers’ Association.

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