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 : Thurrock

CANDIDATE : Delargy

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. J. Delargy sat for the Platting Division of Manchester in the last Parliament. Educated in France and Italy, he has been in turn a teacher in a private school, a journalist, a canvasser, and a labourer. In five years’ service with the Royal Artillery he began in the ranks and ended as a staff captain at General Eisenhower’s headquarters. He is 41.

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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 : Gloucestershire West

CANDIDATE : Houldsworth

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. H. B. Houldsworth was born in 1922 and was educated at Huddersfield Technical College and Leeds University, where he qualified as a doctor. Before being called up, Capt. Houldsworth was senior anaesthetist at Leeds General Infirmary, and he is now in the R.A.M.C. He comes from a family with a Liberal tradition, his father, Sir H. Houldsworth, K.C., having contested Pudsey and Otley in 1929, and his mother is a Liberal member of the West Riding County Council.

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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 : Hereford

CANDIDATE : Farr

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. Farr is also a member of the city council and the county council. Of humble beginnings, is now a well-known constructional engineer. He holds many public positions, including the presidency of the local Liberal association, and is a leading advocate of the Severn bridge project.

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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 : St Albans

CANDIDATE : Grimston

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Grimston was M.P. for the division 1943 to 1945, when he was defeated. Born in 1912, he is brother to the Earl of Verulam, and was educated at Oundle and Oxford. He spent two years tobacco farming in Southern Rhodesia, and is general manager of an Enfield company. He has had a wide experience of factory and production problems.

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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 : Chislehurst

CANDIDATE : Wallace

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. D. Wallace, aged 43, won the division in 1945, and became an assistant Government whip in 1947. He served in the R.A.F. during the war. From 1937 to 1946 he was a member of Chislehurst-Sidcup Urban District Council. In 1949 he attended the annual conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Stockholm. He has been a member of the Labour Party for 17 years and is specially interested in social welfare questions and the youth movement.

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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 : Isle of Thanet

CANDIDATE : Boyd

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. C. Boyd, born in Canada in 1916, son of a former vicar of Minster, was educated at Marlborough, Oxford, and the London School of Economics. In 1941 he became Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General at India G.H.Q., and in 1944 Under-Secretary to the Government of India. He was secretary to the Parliamentary delegation to India in 1946, afterwards principal of the central economic planning staff in the Cabinet office, and more recently attached to the Treasury.

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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 : Chorley

CANDIDATE : Fountaine

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Fountaine, a native of Edinburgh, was educated at Stave College, Bucks, and the Army College, Aldershot. In 1937 he joined the Royal Navy but was invalided out. At Cambridge he took a chemistry degree and in the war was engaged on experimental work at Woolwich. Although adopted by the local Conservative association his candidature at this election was not recognized by the party Standing Advisory Committee at headquarters.

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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 : Huyton

CANDIDATE : Edwards

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. G. Edwards is an estate agent and chairman of the Liverpool Liberal Federation. Has made two unsuccessful efforts to gain a seat on the Liverpool City Council.

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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 : North Fylde

CANDIDATE : Couldry

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Couldry, 32, is the West Yorkshire organizer and tutor for the National’Council of Labour Colleges. Educated at council schools and Catford Commercial Institute, he also studied with the National Council of Labour Colleges. He has been active in trade union, co-operative, and boys’ club movements.

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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 : Harborough

CANDIDATE : Bazeley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. H. C. Bazeley is 42, and after going to Blundell’s School, Devon, and Woolwich, joined the Royal Artillery in 1927, and retired 18 months ago. During the war he raised and commanded the original Air Observation Post Squadron, R.A.F., in the North African campaign, and was awarded the D.S.O. He was in the invasion of Normandy, and was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the American D.S.C.

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