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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 : Bermondsey Constituency – Biography of Mellish

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bermondsey Constituency – Biography of Mellish

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bermondsey

    CANDIDATE : Mellish

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. J. Mellish, aged 37, entered Parliament in 1946, as member for Rotherhithe. Appointed Parliamentary private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty in 1947, he, with others, was required to resign in June, 1949, for his vote on the Ireland Bill. He served in the Royal Engineers (Dock Section) during the war, and was demobilized as a captain. An official of the Transport and General Workers’ Union. On the direction of Mr. Attlee 30,000 copies of a speech by Mr. Mellish in Parliament on Communist influences in the London dock strike in 1949 were distributed among dockers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chelsea Constituency – Biography of Robertson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chelsea Constituency – Biography of Robertson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chelsea

    CANDIDATE : Robertson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. C. Robertson, aged 57, barrister, served for 12 years as district and sessional judge in Burma. Placed on special duty with the Burma Government in Simla, he later joined the staff of Sir Herbert Ranee as deputy chief judicial officer, military administration, Burma.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Greenwich Constituency – Biography of Reeves

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Greenwich Constituency – Biography of Reeves

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Greenwich

    CANDIDATE : Reeves

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Reeves, aged 53, had fought two unsuccessful contests before becoming M.P. for the division in 1945. He was founder and chairman of the Camberwell Labour Party and became vice-chairman of the Society for Improving Relations between Great Britain and the U.S.S.R. He is a member of the national executive of the Labour Party, and of the committee of inquiry into the B.B.C.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hampstead Constituency – Biography of Watson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hampstead Constituency – Biography of Watson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hampstead

    CANDIDATE : Watson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. S. Watson is an industrial consultant, with experience in Canada, the United States, and other countries. He was born in 1896, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Administration and of the Incorporated Sales Managers’ Association. He is a Liveryman and Freeman of the City of London.

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

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kensington North Constituency – Biography of Caplan

    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 : Caplan

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. Caplan, who was born in 1909, is a barrister specializing in commercial law. He was educated at the Grocers’ Company School and London University. During the war he became a major in an anti-tank regiment. He was Assistant Adjutant, General Allied Land Forces, South-East Asia. His wife is also a barrister.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham North Constituency – Biography of Hudson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham North Constituency – Biography of Hudson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewisham North

    CANDIDATE : Hudson

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir A. U. M. Hudson is 52, and was M.P. for East Islington 1922-23 and for North Hackney 1924-45. He held officers an Assistant Conservative Whip and afterwards as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport. He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1939 to 1942 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power in the ” caretaker ” Government. He is a director of a firm of publishers of trade ?nd technical journals and treasurer of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. He was created a. baronet in 1942.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paddington South Constituency – Biography of Wegg-Prosser

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paddington South Constituency – Biography of Wegg-Prosser

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paddington South

    CANDIDATE : Wegg-Prosser

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. F. H. Wegg-Prosser, a solicitor aged 40, was educated at Downside and Oriel College, Oxford. He unsuccessfully contested this constituency in 1945 in which year he became a member of Paddington Borough Council. For a time in the war he was employed in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shoreditch and Finsbury Constituency – Biography of Hensher

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shoreditch and Finsbury Constituency – Biography of Hensher

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Shoreditch and Finsbury

    CANDIDATE : Hensher

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Capt. G. Hensher is the founder and managing director of a firm of manufacturing upholsterers and furnishers at Hackney Wick. He is a member of the British Furniture Manufacturers’ Council, and of London Furniture Manufacturers. A member of the Essex Art Club, he has had a number of paintings exhibited. He is 54.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Clapham Constituency – Biography of Gibson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wandsworth Clapham Constituency – Biography of Gibson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Clapham

    CANDIDATE : Gibson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. W. Gibson won the Kennington seat in 1945, but it disappeared in the redistribution. Born in 1889, he studied at Morley College, Rus-kin College and the London School of Economics, and was an official of the Transport and General Workers Union until elected to Parliament. For four years he was a member of the Central Housing Advisory Committee. Since 1943 he has been chairman of the London County Council Housing Committee.

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