Tag: 1950 General Election

  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Banffshire Constituency – Biography of Lethem

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Banffshire Constituency – Biography of Lethem

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Banffshire

    CANDIDATE : Lethem

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Gordon Lethem, now farming in Esk-dailemuir, Dumfriesshire, was educated at Edinburgh and Grenoble Universities, and at s?hools of Oriental languages in Paris and London, and is a barrister. He was the first administrator of the German Cameroons after the 1914-18 war and was successively Governor of the Seychelles, the Leeward Islands, and British Guiana. He took part in the negotiations with America for the destroyers-for-air bases deal. He is a K.C.M.G. and a Knight of the Order of St. John.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fife East Constituency – Biography of Freeman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fife East Constituency – Biography of Freeman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fife East

    CANDIDATE : Freeman

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. A. Freeman, aged 21, who lives at Hampstead, was educated in London, France, and Canada, and more recently has been studying at St. Andrew’s University. He is president of the University Liberal Association and on the general council of the Scottish Liberal Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bothwell Constituency – Biography of Cadzow

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bothwell Constituency – Biography of Cadzow

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bothwell

    CANDIDATE : Cadzow

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. N. Cadzow is a native of Bothwell and partner in a Glasgow paint firm. During the war he served in the Royal Navy and was mentioned in dispatches for demolition work at the time of Dunkirk. Later he went to the Admiralty and at the end of the war was at Naples as staff officer (plans) to the naval commander.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Midlothian and Peeblesshire Constituency – Biography of Gilmour

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Midlothian and Peeblesshire Constituency – Biography of Gilmour

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Midlothian and Peeblesshire

    CANDIDATE : Gilmour

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. W. Gilmour is 45 and a native of Lanarkshire. A member of Peebles Town Council, to which he was elected in 1937, he was at one time a mining surveyor. In the 1945 General Election he was organizer for the Co-operative Party candidates in Dumfriesshire.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Renfrewshire West Constituency – Biography of Maclay

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Renfrewshire West Constituency – Biography of Maclay

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Renfrewshire West

    CANDIDATE : Maclay

    PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. S. Maclay, who is 45, entered Parliament in 19?0 as member for the former Montrose Burghs constituency, and retained the seat at the 1945 election. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Production in 1945. He is the Leader of the National Liberal Party in the House of Commons. A son of the first Baron Maclay, he is interested in shipping and led the British Merchant Shipping Mission to Washington during the war. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Battersea South Constituency – Biography of Tyers

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Battersea South Constituency – Biography of Tyers

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Battersea South

    CANDIDATE : Tyers

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Cmdr. C. Tyers was born in Battersea, and went to Lavender Hill School and Salesian College. After service in the R.N.V.R. in the war he took a hotel in Broadstairs, where he is a member of the urban council. He is a football referee and commanding officer of Sea Cadets at Ramsgate.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chelsea Constituency – Biography of Tonge

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chelsea Constituency – Biography of Tonge

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chelsea

    CANDIDATE : Tonge

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. L. Tonge, born in 1896, and educated at the Merchant Venturers’ Secondary School, is a railway clerk, and a member of the national executive of the Railway Clerks’ Association. For six years up to 1939 he was a member of the Swindon Town Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fulham West Constituency – Biography of Walcot-Bather

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fulham West Constituency – Biography of Walcot-Bather

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fulham West

    CANDIDATE : Walcot-Bather

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Walcot-Bather, born in 1908, is an architect and surveyor. During the war he was engaged for a time in the construction of aerodromes, and afterwards served with the J*”A.S.C. He was prospective Liberal candidate for North Lambeth from 1937 to 1939.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hampstead Constituency – Biography of Hawkins

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hampstead Constituency – Biography of Hawkins

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hampstead

    CANDIDATE : Hawkins

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. F. Hawkins, head master of Gibbons Secondary School, Willesden, since 1948, was born in Bethnal Green in 1906. An L.C.C. teacher in Shadwell and Shoreditch, he became senior master at Croydon Polytechnic and head master of Newcastle Technical School. He has b;en a member of Leyton Borough Council since 1935, and of Essex County Council since 1946.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kensington North Constituency – Biography of Rogers

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kensington North Constituency – Biography of Rogers

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kensington North

    CANDIDATE : Rogers

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Rogers, aged 44, has represented North Kensington from 1945, when he captured the seat from the Conservatives. From 1947 to 1949 he was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. G. R. Strauss, Minister of Supply, a position he lost when in 1947 he voted?against the Government on the Ireland Bill. He has served on the Wembley Borough Council and was at one time chairman of the London group of Labour M.P.s. He is an industrial consultant with London Transport.

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