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 : Penistone

CANDIDATE : McGhee

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. G. McGhee was born in 1898 and is a dentist. For 23 years he has been a member of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, and mem- i ber of Parliament for | the division since 1935. j A native of Northern Ireland, his father at one time represented first South Louth and then Mid-Tyrone as an Irish Nationalist M.P.

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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 : Sowerby

CANDIDATE : Hart

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. L. Hart is the son of Capt. B. H. Liddell Hart, the military writer. Aged 27, he was educated at Eton and Cambridge and was a history scholar of King’s College. He was in the Royal Navy in the war and was later attached to the International Secretariat of the United Nations as a political affairs officer. He was subsequently political adviser to the British Military Governor in Germany, and is now on the staff of a Yorkshire newspaper.

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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 : Newport

CANDIDATE : Freeman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Peter Freeman, member for Brecon and Radnor, 1929-31, was elected for Newport in 1945. Born in London in 1888, he was educated at the Haberdashers’ School, and has served on Cardiff City Council and Glamorgan County Council. He is founder and chairman of the India League, founder and secretary of the Theosophical Society in Wales, and a vice-president of the Vegetarian Society. For three years from 1920 he was Welsh lawn tennis champion.

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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 : Anglesey

CANDIDATE : Jones

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. O. Jones is an accountant, and was born at Brymo 47 years ago. He was first employed in a colliery, but later entered a steel works and became a trade union official. For his services with the iron, steel, and kindred trades he gained the bronze medal and bar. A governor of Wrexham and East Denbigh War Memorial Hospital, he has also served on the local council. He is a member of the National Farmers’ Union.

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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 : Llanelli

CANDIDATE : Griffiths

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. James Griffiths was Minister of National Insurance in the last Government. He entered Parliament at a by-election in 1936 for Llanelly, and has retained the seat ever since. Born in 1890, he first worked in the coal mines,?went to the National Labour College in London, and in 1924 became miners’ agent under the South Wales Miners’ Federation and later was president of the Association. He is a former chairman of the executive of the Labour Party.

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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 : Aberavon

CANDIDATE : Cove

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. G. Cove first entered Parliament as member for Welling-borough in 1924 and has represented Aberavon since 1929. After working underground as a miner for five or six years, studying in the evenings, he qualified as a teacher and later went to college. He is an ex-president of the National Union of Teachers. After the 1914-18 war he was the first president of the Discharged Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Association. He is chairman of the Welsh Labour Parliamentary group.

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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 : Ogmore

CANDIDATE : Llewellyn

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss M. Llewellyn, daughter of a disabled Welsh miner, is a teacher who has spent all her life in the Nantymoel district. During the war she was chairman of the local evacuation committee and since 1897 has served on the Ogmore and Garw Urban District Council, and worked energetically to bring new industries to mid-Glamorganshire.

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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 : Monmouth

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. F. Thomas, 29, became education officer for Imperial Chemical Industries at Billingham and is assistant organizer for further education under the Glamorgan County Council.

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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 : Coatbridge and Airdrie

CANDIDATE : Mann

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Jean Mann was elected for Coatbridge in 1945. She has been closely associated with housing reform, and was housing convenor of Glasgow Corporation. | She is vice-president of the Scottish Housing and Town Planning Council and organizing secretary of the Town and Country Planning Association. She served on the housing advisory council set up by the Secretary of State. Aged 50, she has been senior magistrate of Glasgow.

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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 : Edinburgh East

CANDIDATE : Wheatley

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Wheatley, K.C., the Lord Advocate, entered the House in 1947 when Mr. G. R. Thomson, then Lord Advocate, went to the Scottish Bench. First appointed Solicitor-General for Scotland, he became Lord Advocate a few months later. He was born in 1908, and is a nephew of the late Mr. John Wheatley. Minister of Health in the first Labour Government. Educated at St. Aloysius College, Glasgow, Mount St. Mary’s College, Chesterfield, and Glasgow University, he was called to the Scottish Bar, 1932, appointed an advocate-depute, 1945, and K.C., 1947.

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