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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Somerset North Constituency – Biography of Whitcher

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Somerset North Constituency – Biography of Whitcher

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Somerset North

    CANDIDATE : Whitcher

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. E. Whitcher is 41 and a city councillor in Bath, where he is chairman of the housing committee. Born in Highcliffe, Hampshire, he went to Bath in 1933, and controls a motor tyres and spares business. Treasurer of the Somerset Diocesan Mission to the Deaf and Dumb, he has raised many thousands of pounds for this work, and is active in other social service movements.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Burton Constituency – Biography of Colegate

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Burton Constituency – Biography of Colegate

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Burton

    CANDIDATE : Colegate

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. Colegate represented The Wrekin from 1940 to 1945, when he was defeated. Educated at London University, where he took an honours degree in science, he enlisted for active service in the first world war but was seconded for special service in the Board of Trade. In 1947 he was appointed chairman of the West Midlands Area Conservative and Unionist Associations, and is a member of the central executive of the Conservative Party. He has been a governor of Harper Adams Agricultural College.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eye Constituency – Biography of Emsden

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eye Constituency – Biography of Emsden

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eye

    CANDIDATE : Emsden

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. L. G. Emsden, who was born in 1893, is a retired Regular Army officer who served in France and East Africa in 1914-18 and as a brigade major and staff officer from 1939 to 1945. He joined the Labour Party in 1945, and has served on Suffolk local authorities.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorking Constituency – Biography of Francis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorking Constituency – Biography of Francis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorking

    CANDIDATE : Francis

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Francis was born at Woodford, Essex, in 1893. After serving in the ranks in the 1914-18 war, he became a retail and wholesale newsagent at Carshalton, where he lives and?controls a business. He was elected to Carshalton Urban Council in 1939, and was chairman in 1944-46. He is president of the Carshalton Municipal Ratepayers’ Association and chairman of the Carshalton National Savings Committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Reigate Constituency – Biography of Garnsworthy

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Reigate Constituency – Biography of Garnsworthy

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Reigate

    CANDIDATE : Garnsworthy

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. J. Garnsworthy is an insurance agent and was born in 1906. Joining the Labour Party in 1926, he was chairman of the Divisional Labour Party in 1937 and was formerly a member of the Banstead Urban Council. He served during the war in the Royal Corps of Signals, and contested Reigate in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Arundel and Shoreham Constituency – Biography of Parsons

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Arundel and Shoreham Constituency – Biography of Parsons

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Arundel and Shoreham

    CANDIDATE : Parsons

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. Parsons, who is 38, is an agricultural officer of the Transport and General Workers’ Union and a member of the Sussex Agricultural Wages Committee. Until recently, he was chairman of the Sussex Advisory Committee of the London and S.E. Regional Board for Industry. Until he received his union post in 1946, he worked on the land in the Isle of Ely.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Solihull Constituency – Biography of Hayes

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Solihull Constituency – Biography of Hayes

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Solihull

    CANDIDATE : Hayes

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. A. M. Hayes, who was trained as a teacher at Birmingham University and taught in the city for some years, later became secretary of the Electrical Association for Women and subsequently its Midland area organizer. She was the first president of the Business and Professional Women’s Club in Birmingham.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Devizes Constituency – Biography of Hollis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Devizes Constituency – Biography of Hollis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Devizes

    CANDIDATE : Hollis

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Christopher Hollis became member for Devizes in 1945. Born in 1902 and educated at Eton and Balliol, he toured America, New Zealand, and Australia in 1924-25 as a member of the Oxford Union Debating Society. He was an assistant master at Stonyhurst College. A director of a publishing firm and a member of the editorial board of The Tablet, he has been a prolific writer of political works and novels. He served in Greece as a squadron leader in the R.A.F.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worcestershire South Constituency – Biography of Hopwood

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worcestershire South Constituency – Biography of Hopwood

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Worcestershire South

    CANDIDATE : Hopwood

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. P. T. Hopwood, born in 1912 and educated at Malyern College, has been a market gardener since the age of 17 and now cultivates a large market ?arden at Pershore. He served in the Royal Navy during the war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Scarborough and Whitby Constituency – Biography of Sykes

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Scarborough and Whitby Constituency – Biography of Sykes

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Scarborough and Whitby

    CANDIDATE : Sykes

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. W. Sykes, born in Doncaster in 1915, was educated at Doncaster Grammar School and Oxford University, where he read law and was president of Pembroke College Law Society. For five years a grammar school teacher at Wellingborough and Northampton, he was called to the Bar in 1945, and has practised on the Northern Circuit. He is also a practical farmer, and a member of the Campaign Committee of the Yorkshire Liberal Federation.

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