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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nottingham South Constituency – Biography of Rees-Davies

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nottingham South Constituency – Biography of Rees-Davies

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nottingham South

    CANDIDATE : Rees-Davies

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies, born in 1916, was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he was a prominent cricketer. He was called to the Bar in 1939, and is a practising barrister. Commissioned in the?Welsh Guards at the outbreak of the late war, he served later, on the staff of Gen. Sir Oliver Leese, with the Guards Armoured Division. He lost his right arm while on service.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Plymouth Devonport Constituency – Biography of Foot

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Plymouth Devonport Constituency – Biography of Foot

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Plymouth Devonport

    CANDIDATE : Foot

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Michael Foot, born in 1913, a son of Mr. Isaac Foot, was educated at Leighton Park School, Reading, and Wadham College, Oxford (exhibitioner). In 1933 he was president of the Oxford Union and . toured the United States as the representative of the Union. A member of the Labour Party executive, he is a journalist, and is the author of several political books.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Portsmouth West Constituency – Biography of Clarke

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Portsmouth West Constituency – Biography of Clarke

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Portsmouth West

    CANDIDATE : Clarke

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Brig. T. H. Clarke was born in India in 1904, and was educated at Haileybury and Sandhurst. In the 1939 war he served at Narvik and in North Africa, France and Germany, and was three times mentioned in dispatches and became Deputy Director of Ordnance Services. He has boxed for the Army as a heavyweight and has played rugby for the Harlequins and the Army.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Reading South Constituency – Biography of Mikardo

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Reading South Constituency – Biography of Mikardo

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Reading South

    CANDIDATE : Mikardo

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. I. Mikardo, who won Reading in 1945, frequently took an independent line in Parliament, sometimes to the extent of voting against the Government. He was born at Portsmouth in 1908 and engaged in teaching journalism and translation work before specializing in commercial and industrial problems and becoming an industrial consultant. He is hon. treasurer of the Fabian Society and on the executive of the Association of Supervisory Staffs and Engineering Technicians.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rotherham Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rotherham Constituency – Biography of Jones

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rotherham

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Jack Jones, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply in the last Government, was for 32 years a steel smelter at Manchester. Born in 1894, and educated at an elementary school and Bangor University, he has been a prominent member of the Iron, Steel and Kindred Trades Federation, holding many offices locally and being a member of the executive. He was a local councillor for 14 years, and in the last Parliament sat for Bolton.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Salford West Constituency – Biography of Bell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Salford West Constituency – Biography of Bell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Salford West

    CANDIDATE : Bell

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. Bell was born in 1898 on the family estate near Wigan, where he still farms 300 acres. He is managing director of Ashley Investment Trust, Manchester, and a director of other companies. Until last year he was a member of Lancashire County Council. He is a member of the Conservative Party national executive, and of the regional council of the Federation of British Industries.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Neepsend Constituency – Biography of Morris

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Neepsend Constituency – Biography of Morris

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sheffield Neepsend

    CANDIDATE : Morris

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Col. H. Morris was born in Sheffield in 1893, practised as a solicitor until 1936, when he was called to the Bar. He served on Sheffield City Council, 1920-27 and 1929-37. Enlisted in the ranks in the 1914-18 war and retired as captain; he rejoined in the last war, again in the ranks, and retired with the rank of colonel. Colonel Morris, who played football until he was 40, won Central Sheffield for Labour in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southampton Test Constituency – Biography of Fry

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southampton Test Constituency – Biography of Fry

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southampton Test

    CANDIDATE : Fry

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. Fry, son of C. B. Fry, the famous cricketer, went to the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and was in the Navy until 1920, when he retired to assist his father in charge of the Mercury Nautical School, Hamble. From 1934 to 1949 he held a number of appointments with the B.B.C., including assistant programme director, Midland Region, and research director of the B.B.C.’s New York office. He is aged 49.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : South Shields Constituency – Biography of Smith

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : South Shields Constituency – Biography of Smith

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : South Shields

    CANDIDATE : Smith

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. O. Smith, born in South Shields 46 years ago, started work early as a rivet catcher in the shipyards in 1917 after his father had been torpedoed at sea. He is an electric welder. He took an active part in the unemployed workers’ movement before the war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stoke-on-Trent South Constituency – Biography of Kemp

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stoke-on-Trent South Constituency – Biography of Kemp

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stoke-on-Trent South

    CANDIDATE : Kemp

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. H. Kemp, a chemist in business for 40 years, has been on the city council for more than 27 years, 10 of them as an alderman, and he was lord mayor in 1944-45. He is also chairman of the North Staffs Liberal Federation.

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