CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chesterfield
CANDIDATE : Barker
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. B. Barker, a machine worker, a shop steward of the Amalgamated Engineers’ Union, fu ^airman of a works committee, lived in tne Soviet Union for two years and has been secretary of the Sheffield Communist Party.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Croydon East
CANDIDATE : Gray
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. L. Gray, a Southern Counties representative of a Yorkshire textile firm, has been an active worker in the Liberal cause in Surrey for many years. He represents Whyteleafe on the Caterham and Warlinsrfiam Urban Council.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dartford
CANDIDATE : Roberts
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Miss M. Roberts, aged 24, attended Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School, where she won a bursary to Somerville College, Oxford. She took an honours degree and was awarded a B.Sc. (Research) degree. She was engaged on research work at Colchester. While at Oxford she became president of the University Conservative Association—the third woman to hold that office.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dudley
CANDIDATE : Wigg
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. E. C. Wigg, who won Dudley for the Labour Party in 1945, as Parliamentary private secretary accompanied Mr. Shin well, Secretary of State for War, on his visits to British troops abroad. Born in 1900, he joined the Tank Corps when 19 and served for 23 years in Turkey, India, Iraq, the Sudan, and West Africa. Discharged in 1937, he rejoined in 1940, and worked for better welfare and education in the Army. He is one of the joint authors of ” Keeping Left.”
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : East Ham South
CANDIDATE : Young
PARTY : Soc. Party of Great Britain
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. Young, a science teacher, was born in 1901 and has been a meniber of the N.U.T. A member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain for 12 years, he has been on the party executive and was once central organizer. He is one of the party’s two candidates.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eton and Slough
CANDIDATE : Smith
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. P. Smith, aged 35, is a Cambridge M.A. with an honours degree in mathematics and English literature. He took up teaching for a time, but subsequently joined the staff of the International Peace Campaign. He is now a scientific worker with a Slough firm. For the past seven years has been a moving spirit in the Communist Party in Slough.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gosport and Fareham
CANDIDATE : Bennett
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. F. B. Bennett was born in 1911 and was educated at Winchester and Oxford and St. George’s Hospital, London. He served in the war as surgeon lieutenant – commander, and was twice torpedoed, and later became a doctor in the Fleet Air Arm and served in Tanganyika and Ceylon. A well-known yachtsman, he was for two seasons helmsman of Shamrock V, and in 1949 he was a member of the British team which competed for the British-America Cup.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Harrow West
CANDIDATE : Bower
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. Norman Bower, aged 42, has been in Parliament since 1941. Educated at Rugby and Wadham College, Oxford, he is a barrister of the Inner Temple. During the war he served as a private in the Intelligence Corps and later, on transfer to reserve, was appointed to the Foreign Office. He served on the Westminster City Council for many years.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hendon North
CANDIDATE : Pollitt
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mrs. M. Pollitt, wife of Mr. H. Pollitt, who contested E. Rhondda in this election, won scholarships as a girl and became an L.C.C. teacher. During the General Strike she published the Party’s strike paper, and on being arrested and fined her teaching certificate was withdrawn. Since then she has been actively associated with political and social work, notably in Hendon where she lives.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hove
CANDIDATE : Rea
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. F. R. Rea comes of a family with a long Liberal tradition; both his father, the first Lord Rea of Eskdale, and his grandfather, Mr. Russell Rea, sat in Parliament for many years. Mr. Rea, aged 42, has been a Socialist for 15 years, and is chairman of the Labour Party in Battle, where he keeps an hotel. During the war he served five years in the Intelligence Corps.
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