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 : Gosport and Fareham

CANDIDATE : Nobes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. R. Nobes, born in 1905, is a shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard. He attended the Dockyard Upper School and later the Municipal College for Naval Architecture. He was chairman of the Gosport Labour Party in 1928. He has served on the Gosport Borough Council since 1934, was mayor from 1946 to 1949, and was a member of the Hampshire County Council from 1943 to 1949.

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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 : Harrow West

CANDIDATE : Littlewood

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. L. Littlewood, aged 42, is general secretary of the B.B.C. Staff Association. He has been a trade unionist since he was 15, when, on the early death of his father, he had to relinquish a scholarship to Hull Grammar School and became a clerk with the L.N.E.R. He subsequently took a B.Sc. (Econ.) degree with honours. He became deputy-general secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union in 1942, and took up his present appointment three years ago.

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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 : Hendon South

CANDIDATE : Lucas-Tooth

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth, member for the constituency since 1945, represented the Isle of Ely from 1924 to 1929. Born in 1903, he was educated at Eton and Oxford and called to the Bar. When the first baronet died, having lost all his sons in France during the war, the King granted a re-creation of the baronetcy in favour of his eldest grandson, H. V. H. D. Warrand, the present holder, who assumed the name and arms of Lucas-Tooth.

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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 : Huddersfield East

CANDIDATE : Mallalieu

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu was elected for Huddersfield in 1945. He has been Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Food and the Secretary of State for Air. He served in the Navy from 1942 to 1945, and wrote several books on his experiences. Aged 41, he was president of the Oxford Union in 1930, and an Oxford Rugby blue. He later worked for a number of years as a London journalist.

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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 : Keighley

CANDIDATE : Walker

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Walker, aged 36, is a former Coastal Command pilot and squadron leader, who won the D.F.C. for anti-submarine work in the North Atlantic. A blanket manufacturer at Mirfield, he is a vice-president of the Yorkshire Area Liberal Federation and president of the Dewsbury League of Young Liberals. He was educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and holds an honours degree in economics.

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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 : Leeds Central

CANDIDATE : Porter

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Porter, a native of Liverpool, won the seat from National Labour in 1945. He is a joiner, and a member of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers. A vice-chairman of the Liverpool Trades Council, he has been for over 30 years prominent in the trade union movement. He was engaged with the Ministry of Labour during the war.

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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 : Leeds South East

CANDIDATE : Milner

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. James Milner, Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy-Speaker of the House of Commons from March, 1943, till June, 1945, and again since September, 1945, was born in 1889 and is a Leeds solicitor. Educated at Leeds University, he was elected for South-East Leeds in 1929 and has been returned ever since. He was a major in the 1914-18 war and was wounded. For his services he was awarded the M.C. and bar. Deputy Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1928, he has also been chairman of the Leeds Labour Party and president of Leeds Law Society. He is a Privy Councillor and deputy-li;utenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire. For 4£ years he has been chairman of the British group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and led the British delegation to Ceylon, presenting the Speaker’s Chair and Mace there.

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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 : Leicester South West

CANDIDATE : Bowden

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. W. Bowden, aged 44, is the retiring member for the former South Leicester division, which he won in 1945. He lives in Leicester, and in 1938 was elected to the Leicester City Council, but resigned on his election to Parliament. He was in the R.A.F. during the war, and was commissioned in administrative duties. He was appointed an assistant Whip in February, 1949.

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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 : Liverpool Exchange

CANDIDATE : Cleather

PARTY : Ind. Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. G. Cleather, who has been in the insurance business for 20 years, is standing in opposition to the Labour Party programme for the mutualization of the insurance business. He is also opposed to nationalization in general. Forty years of age, he has lived in Liverpool for the last four years.

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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 : Liverpool Wavertree

CANDIDATE : Tilney

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. D. Tilney was adopted for the reconstituted Wavertree division in 1948, the sitting member, Mr. V. Raikes, moving to Garston. Born in 1907 Mr. Tilney has for 17 years been a member of the Liverpool Stock Exchange, of which his great-grandfather was a founder. He is associated with many business and charitable organizations in the city and is a lieutenant-colonel in the Territorials.

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