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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nottingham Central Constituency – Biography of Winterbottom

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nottingham Central Constituency – Biography of Winterbottom

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nottingham Central

    CANDIDATE : Winterbottom

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. I. Winterbottom was special assistant to Lord Pakenham at the Ministry of Civil Aviation. Born in 1913 and educated at Charterhouse and Clare College, Cambridge, he has worked in a textile finishing undertaking in Manchester and Germany and was personal staff officer to the regional commissioner, Hamburg, in the Control Commission. He is a councillor for Thrapston and Oundle.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Oldham East Constituency – Biography of Fairhurst

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Oldham East Constituency – Biography of Fairhurst

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Oldham East

    CANDIDATE : Fairhurst

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Fairhurst, who is 57 years of age, entered Parliament in 1945 for Oldham. He started work in a cotton mill after leaving school at 15. He was president of the National Association of Power Loom Overlookers, a member of the Wigan Town Council, and president of the Wigan Textile Trades Federation.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Plymouth Sutton Constituency – Biography of Major

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Plymouth Sutton Constituency – Biography of Major

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Plymouth Sutton

    CANDIDATE : Major

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. K. H. B. Major, aged 30, of West Country stock, was educated in London and at the Sir John Cass Technical College, and is an industrial chemist and engineer, working as a consultant and in an advisory capacity for various business organizations. During the war he served in the Royal Air Force as a navigator and an airfield controller.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Preston North Constituency – Biography of Hemelryk

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Preston North Constituency – Biography of Hemelryk

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Preston North

    CANDIDATE : Hemelryk

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. J. Hemelryk, whose mother is a direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell, was born in 1889, and educated at Stonyhurst and Oxford. After serving in the first world war he was called to the Bar in 1917 and practised in Liverpool and Preston for many years. For the past four years he has been chairman of the Preston Liberal Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rochdale Constituency – Biography of Hale

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rochdale Constituency – Biography of Hale

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rochdale

    CANDIDATE : Hale

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Hale, aged 39, is prominent in political and trade union activities in Bolton, where he is a plastic mould maker and charge hand. He has served on the town council and is on the National Council of Labour Colleges. Between the two wars he was an engineer in the Mercantile Marine.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rowley Regis and Tipton Constituency – Biography of Yates

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rowley Regis and Tipton Constituency – Biography of Yates

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rowley Regis and Tipton

    CANDIDATE : Yates

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Yates, who is 31, was in the Army for six years during the war, and is now a railway clerk. In 1945, while serving abroad, he was selected to oppose Mr. Churchill at Woodford, but arrived home too late to be adopted.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Brightside Constituency – Biography of Smith

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sheffield Brightside 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 : Sheffield Brightside

    CANDIDATE : Smith

    PARTY : C. & L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Capt. H. S. V. Smith, author of books on political and social problems, is 30 and lives at Wraysbury, Bucks. A captain in Royal Marine Commandos, he was wounded at Dieppe in 1942, and won the M.C. and Croix de Guerre. In 1945 he was director of supplies for United Nations relief agencies, and was later director of relief operations in Germany.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Smethwick Constituency – Biography of Gordon-Walker

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Smethwick Constituency – Biography of Gordon-Walker

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Smethwick

    CANDIDATE : Gordon-Walker

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. Gordon-Walker, Under-Secre-tary for Commonwealth Relations in the last Parliament, has the distinction of beginning the list of successful by-elections for the Labour Party in the last Parliament, for he contested Smethwick in October, 1945, and not only retained the seat (which had been won from the Conservatives at the General Election) but increased the majority by 717 votes. He was an Oxford tutor, and was educated at Wellington and Christ Church, Oxford. During the war he was a member of the B.B.C. European service staff. He is 42.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southend West Constituency – Biography of Hutchison

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Southend West Constituency – Biography of Hutchison

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Southend West

    CANDIDATE : Hutchison

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. C. Hutchison, an insurance district manager, who was born in 1896 and had an elementary education, was for 15 years a lecturer for Labour colleges and for the London Co-operative Society. He has also been active in the trade union movement and was district council secretary for the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stockport South Constituency – Biography of Ponsonby

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stockport South Constituency – Biography of Ponsonby

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stockport South

    CANDIDATE : Ponsonby

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Ponsonby was born and educated in Stockport, and started in business as a leather merchant in 1913. For many years a member of Stockport Town Council, he became an alderman in 1945, antl was mayor in 1948. A director of Stockport County F.C., he has also been chairman of the Lancashire and Cheshire Leather and Grindery Merchants’ Association.

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