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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Perth and East Perthshire Constituency – Biography of Gomme-Duncan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Perth and East Perthshire Constituency – Biography of Gomme-Duncan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Perth and East Perthshire

    CANDIDATE : Gomme-Duncan

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Col. A. Gomme-Duncan was born in 1893, and educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School. He served in the 1914-18 war with The Black Watch and The London Scottish, and was awarded the M.C. After the war he served in India with The Black Watch, and was a staff officer, Western Command, Quetta, and then in a similar capacity with Northern Command, York. He retired from the Army in 1937, but served again in the last war, retiring in 1945. In the same year he entered Parliament for Perth and Kinross, and gave particular attention to matters concerning Scottish agriculture.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Lothian Constituency – Biography of Mathers

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Lothian Constituency – Biography of Mathers

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : West Lothian

    CANDIDATE : Mathers

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Mathers was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1946 and the two following years. Born at St. Boswells, Roxburghshire, in 1886, he worked as a railway clerk and was active in trade union and labour affairs. He was a member of Carlisle City Council from 1919 to 1921, and from 1929 to 1931 he was M.P. for West Edinburgh, and re-entered Parliament in 1935 for the then Linlithgow division. In 1944-45 he was Comptroller of H.M. Household, and later became Treasurer of the Household and Deputy Chief Whip. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of Edinburgh. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1947.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Battersea North Constituency – Biography of Jay

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Battersea North Constituency – Biography of Jay

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Battersea North

    CANDIDATE : Jay

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Douglas Jay, who was appointed Economic Secretary to the Treasury in December, 1947, was born in 1907, and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of All Souls, he is a journalist and specialist in economics. He entered the Ministry of Supply in 1940 to help the munitions drive, and three years later went to the Board of Trade as personal assistant to Mr. Dalton to help in the planning of post-war industrial reconstruction. He was elected for Battersea North in 1946.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Camberwell Dulwich Constituency – Biography of Baker

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Camberwell Dulwich Constituency – Biography of Baker

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Camberwell Dulwich

    CANDIDATE : Baker

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. Baker, a barrister, born in 1913, was commissioned in 1940 and served in Holland and France. Later he commanded a parachute squadron of the Royal Engineers and moved with the 1 st Airborne Division to North Africa in 1943. He was appointed to the planning staff of the Allied Land Forces in South-East Asia in July, 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fulham East Constituency – Biography of Stewart

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fulham East Constituency – Biography of Stewart

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fulham East

    CANDIDATE : Stewart

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. M. Stewart became Under-Secretary for War in 1947. Born in 1906, he was educated at Christ’s Hospital and Oxford, where he became president of the Union and chairman of the University Labour Club. He was formerly a teacher and lecturer for the Workers’ Educational Association, and during the war was a captain in the Intelligence Corps.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hammersmith North Constituency – Biography of Pritt

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hammersmith North Constituency – Biography of Pritt

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hammersmith North

    CANDIDATE : Pritt

    PARTY : Lab. Ind.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. N. Pritt, K.C., who represented the division from 1935 until the dissolution, was born in 1887 and educated at Winchester, London University and abroad. He took silk in 1927. Formerly a member of the national executive, he was expelled from the Labour Party in 1940 because of his opposition to official policy on Russia and Finland. In the last Parliament he became chairman of the ” Independent ” group of five Labour Members. He is also chairman of the Society for Cultural Relations with the U.S.S.R., and president of the Student Labour Federation.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Islington North Constituency – Biography of Page

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Islington North Constituency – Biography of Page

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Islington North

    CANDIDATE : Page

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. G. Page, who is aged 39, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford. His father, the late Lt.-Col. F. Page, The Hertfordshire Regiment, and his grandfather were mayors of Hertford. A solicitor, Mr. Page has taken a special interest in road safety, being chairman of the Pedestrians’ Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lambeth Norwood Constituency – Biography of Smyth

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lambeth Norwood Constituency – Biography of Smyth

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lambeth Norwood

    CANDIDATE : Smyth

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Brig. J. G. Smyth, V.C, author, journalist, broadcaster, playwright, and politician, is a Devonshire man. He was born in 1893 and was educated at Repton and the Royal Military College. Holder of many decorations, he has had several staff appointments. During the war he raised the 19th (” Dagger “) Division, which had a great part in the recapture of Mandalay and Rangoon. In 1945 he unsuccessfully opposed Mr. Ernest Bevin in Central Wands-worth.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham West Constituency – Biography of Pritchard

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lewisham West Constituency – Biography of Pritchard

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lewisham West

    CANDIDATE : Pritchard

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. E. Pritchard was born in 1913 and had an elementary education. He early associated himself with the Liberal Party, at 20 was secretary and treasurer of S.W. Bethnal Green Young Liberals. He joined the Army as a private in 1940 and left with the rank of captain. He is a director of a firm of printers and stationers at Peckham. A former chairman of the local British Legion, he is a representative on the Labour Resettlement Committee of the Legion.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Pancras North Constituency – Biography of Robinson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Pancras North Constituency – Biography of Robinson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : St Pancras North

    CANDIDATE : Robinson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. K.. Robinson was first elected to Parliament in a by-election at North St. Pancras in 1949. He was born in 1911, the son of a doctor, and received his education at Oundle School. An insurance broker until the war, he joined the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman in 1941, was commissioned in 1942, and promoted lieutenant-commander in 1944, servin& H.M.S. King George V. After the war he became a company secretary and served on “t. Pancras Borough Council.

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