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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Canterbury Constituency – Biography of Newman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Canterbury Constituency – Biography of Newman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Canterbury

    CANDIDATE : Newman

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Newman is senior partner in a firm of accountants and a company director. He was formerly a history master and a lecturer in economics, and is a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society. He is well known in London club cricket and has played for Surrey Club and Ground. He was born in 1907.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gravesend Constituency – Biography of Lowe

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gravesend Constituency – Biography of Lowe

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gravesend

    CANDIDATE : Lowe

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. G. Lowe, 28, took a double first in modern and medieval languages at Cambridge, served in The Sherwood Foresters from 1941 to 1945, and was demobilized with the rank of captain. Formerly employed in the Conservative research department, he has toured Europe and assisted at the Council of Europe.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tonbridge Constituency – Biography of Willard

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tonbridge Constituency – Biography of Willard

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tonbridge

    CANDIDATE : Willard

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. A. Willard, a chartered electrical engineer, born in 1905, owned and flew his own aircraft before the war. In the war he was commissioned in the R.A.F.V.R. and was attached to the Air Training Corps. He is a member of the Liberal Home Counties Executive.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Heywood and Royton Constituency – Biography of Watkinson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Heywood and Royton Constituency – Biography of Watkinson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Heywood and Royton

    CANDIDATE : Watkinson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. H. Watkinson, who contested Royton at the last election, was born in 1906, and has held many positions in the Manchester Liberal Federation. Prominent in the administrative side of the building trade, he was in charge of the Works and Buildings emergency organizations for the country during the war, and was responsible for much repair work in London after the rocket bomb damage.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newton Constituency – Biography of Lee

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newton Constituency – Biography of Lee

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newton

    CANDIDATE : Lee

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Lee, who has served as Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps, was M.P. for the former Hulme division of Manchester, and was selected for Newton to succeed Sir Robert Young, who retired at the dissolution. Born in 1908, and receiving an elementary education, Mr. Lee led the 23,000 employees of a Manchester engineering company as chairman of the works committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bosworth Constituency – Biography of Harvey

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bosworth Constituency – Biography of Harvey

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bosworth

    CANDIDATE : Harvey

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. W. Harvey, a shoe manufacturer, has served on Hinckley rural and urban councils, and is a. member of the Leicestershire County Council. Has been a magistrate on the Bosworth Bench since 1930. He was born in 1890, and educated at Bosworth Grammar School.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rutland and Stamford Constituency – Biography of Conant

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rutland and Stamford Constituency – Biography of Conant

    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 : Conant

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. R. J. E. Conant was M.P. for the former Bewdley division from 1937 to 1945, and for Chesterfield 1931-35, and has been Parliamentary private secretary to several Ministers. He was born in 1899, educated at Eton and Sandhurst. He has many associations with Rutland, having been High Sheriff in 1921, and is a deputy lieutenant for the county. He held a commission in the Grenadier Guards and served with them in both wars.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Spelthorne Constituency – Biography of Halpin

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Spelthorne Constituency – Biography of Halpin

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Spelthorne

    CANDIDATE : Halpin

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. J. Halpin was born in 1913 and is a teacher who was employed at Maidenhead when he resigned to join the R.A.F.V.R. at the outbreak of war. Serving with the Federated Malay States squadron of the R.A.F. he was wounded after a raid on Hamburg, joined the ” Pathfinders ” and received the D.F.C., and in 1945 was posted to the Air Ministry for administrative duties. Two years later he became Station Navigation Officer at a Flying Training Command station. He is one of the founders of the Middlesex County Liberal Organization.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk South West Constituency – Biography of Bullard

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk South West Constituency – Biography of Bullard

    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 : Bullard

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. G. Bullard who farms 300 acres near Wisbech, took his degree at Cambridge and later gained a diploma in agricultural science. During the war he was technical adviser to the Huntingdonshire War Agricultural Committee, and has been vice-chairman of the Isle of Ely Conservative Association. He was born in 1912, and is a bachelor.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wellingborough Constituency – Biography of Malindine

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wellingborough Constituency – Biography of Malindine

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wellingborough

    CANDIDATE : Malindine

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. T. Malindine is engaged in the lubricating and tanning oil trade. At one time, when a member of Bethnal Green Borough Council, he was the youngest councillor in England. He was commissioned in the R.A.S.C. and served on the staff of ” Pluto,” during the war. He is 40.

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