CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gravesend
CANDIDATE : Ayliffe
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. M. Ayliffe, aged 50 and wife of a cost accountant, has done much voluntary welfare work locally and is a former unit commander of the W.J.A.C., and a member of the Liberal International and of the United Nations Association.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tonbridge
CANDIDATE : Lyburn
PARTY : Ind. C.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Dr. E. F. St. J. Lyburn stood as an Independent candidate in the constituency in 1945, but forfeited his deposit. Born in 1904 and educated in Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin, he came to this country in 19?9, and held several hospital appointments. He founded a spa clinic at Tunbridge Wells.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huyton
CANDIDATE : Wilson
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Harold Wilson became M.P. for Orms-kirk in 1945 and President of the Board of Trade in 1947. Previously he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works and Secretary for Overseas Trade. At Oxford he won first-class honours in economics and became a research fellow. He was at one time a lecturer in economics at New College, and was an economic assistant in the War Cabinet secretariat, 1940-41.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newton
CANDIDATE : Lewis
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. K. Lewis was public relations officer to County of London Electric Supply Company until nationalization, when he resigned rather than serve with the State concern, and started his own publicity business. He contested this seat in 1945. He was educated at Jarrow High School and Edinburgh University, and was formerly labour and personnel manager of a shipbuilding firm.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Harborough
CANDIDATE : Baldock
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. M. Baldock, who has a variety of business interests, was born in 1915 and went to Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained an agricultural diploma, and to the German University at Freiburg. He is a lieutenant-commander in the R.N.V.R. and has travelled extensively. Since the war he has broadcast to Germany on the B.B.C. European service.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rutland and Stamford
CANDIDATE : Bradley
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. G. Bradley, a railway clerk at Oundle, is 24. Son of a painter and decorator at Kettering, he went to a central school, and during the war served in a mine. He was secretary of the local Labour Party when he was 19, and has been chairman of the Kettering Trades Council.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Uxbridge
CANDIDATE : Beswick
PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. Beswick, who won Uxbridge in 1945, is the son of a Nottinghamshire miner. He fought his first election at the age of 22 as Labour candidate for a seat on the London County Council. He has travelled extensively in Europe and visited Spain during the civil war. During the war he served in the R.A.F. He was one of the two M.P.s who witnessed the atom bomb explosion at Bikini.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norfolk South West
CANDIDATE : Dye
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. S. Dye had a majority of only 53 when he won this constituency in 1945. A local farmer, he has been a member of the Norfolk County Council since 1934 and is an alderman. He was a Labour Party agent in Cambridgeshire for six years until 1932. Born in 1900, and educated at Ruskin College, Oxford, he is branch secretary of the National Union of Agricultural Workers.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wellingborough
CANDIDATE : Lindgren
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. S. Lindgren was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation in 1946, and was previously Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of National Insurance. He was born in 1900 and educated at an L.C.C. elementary school. He became a railway clerk, and for many years was on the executive of the Railway Clerks’ Association. The first Labour member of the Hertfordshire County Council, he was elected an alderman in 1939 and served until last year. During the war he was Deputy Regional Commissioner for the West Midlands.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carlton
CANDIDATE : Kirk
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. C. C. Kirk is an alderman of Nottingham County Council, of which he has been vice-chairman. He is a member of 40 committees and sub-committees of the county council and takes a leading part in the public and business life of Nottingham. He is a yarn and silk merchant and a prominent Methodist and local preacher.
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