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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Epsom Constituency – Biography of Hudson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Epsom Constituency – Biography of Hudson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Epsom

    CANDIDATE : Hudson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. N. G. Hudson, 25, was educated at Merchant Taylors’ and at St. Edward’s School. After serving in the Royal Artillery during the war, he went up to St. John’s College, Oxford, and was recently called to the Bar. At the university he was prominent in the Liberal Association, and organized 30 ” commando teams” sent by the Union of University Liberal Societies on campaigns in the constituencies.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eastbourne Constituency – Biography of Taylor

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eastbourne Constituency – Biography of Taylor

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eastbourne

    CANDIDATE : Taylor

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Charles Taylor is 39 and has been M.P. for Eastbourne since 1935. He is a director of various companies. President of the Residential Hotels Association of Great Britain until 1948, he then became vice-chairman of the council of the British Hotels and Restaurants Association. He was in the Territorial Army before the war and from 1939-42 served in regimental and staff appointments.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Horsham Constituency – Biography of Nicholls

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Horsham Constituency – Biography of Nicholls

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Horsham

    CANDIDATE : Nicholls

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. R. Nicholls was born at Worthing in 1904, worked as a chauffeur for 20 years and later as an insurance agent. Until recently he was a departmental manager at Little-hampton. A member of the Labour Party for 25 years he has held many offices in the local organization.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Warwick and Leamington Constituency – Biography of Eden

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Warwick and Leamington Constituency – Biography of Eden

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Warwick and Leamington

    CANDIDATE : Eden

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Anthony Eden, deputy Leader of the Opposition, was at 39 the youngest Foreign Secretary for over a century. He attained the office in 1935, but resigned in 1938 because of disagreement with the then,Premier, ?r. Neville Chamberlain, over relations with Italy. Born in 1897, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1923, and three years later began his long association with foreign affairs when he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Austen Chamberlain, then Foreign Secretary. In 1931 he was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and in 1934 Lord Privy Seal, becoming Minister for League of Nations Affairs in 1935. Following the resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare in 1935 over the Abyssinian question, Mr. Eden was appointed Foreign Secretary. After his resignation in 1938 he was out of office until September, 1939, when he re-entered the Cabinet as Dominions Secretary. In Mr. Churchill’s war-time Government he was first Secretary of State for War, and on Lord Halifax’s appointment as British Ambassador in Washington in 1940, Mr. Eden returned to the Foreign Office, where he remained until 1945. Mr. Eden led the British delegation to the San Francisco Conference which drew up the United Nations Charter. He recently made an extensive tour of th<£ Commonwealth.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westbury Constituency – Biography of Grimston

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Westbury Constituency – Biography of Grimston

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Westbury

    CANDIDATE : Grimston

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Robert Grimston, M.P. f?r Westbury since 1931, was Assistant Postmaster-General in 1942 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply in 1945, and has also held several junior Government positions. He is president of the Urban District Councils Association. Born in 1897, he was educated at Repton, City and Guilds Engineering College, and London University. He served in Salonika and Palestine in the first world war.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bridlington Constituency – Biography of Wadsworth

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bridlington Constituency – Biography of Wadsworth

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bridlington

    CANDIDATE : Wadsworth

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Wadsworth, a Yorkshire business man, won the Buckrose division for the Liberals in 1945. He has been a member of the public accounts committee, has accompanied Parliamentary delegations to Hungary, Switzerland, and Italy, and last year attended the European military exercises in Germany as a Parliamentary observer. He was born in 1902.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Colne Valley Constituency – Biography of Hall

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Colne Valley Constituency – Biography of Hall

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Colne Valley

    CANDIDATE : Hall

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Glenvil Hall, first sitting in Parliament as member for Portsmouth in 1929, has represented Colne Valley since 1939. He was Financial Secretary to the Treasury throughout the last Parliament. A Herefordshire man, he was born in 1887. and was wounded and mentioned in dispatches in the 1914-18 war. He was for some time finance officer of the Labour Party. He is a Quaker.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Penistone Constituency – Biography of McGhee

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Penistone Constituency – Biography of McGhee

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sowerby Constituency – Biography of Hart

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sowerby Constituency – Biography of Hart

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newport Constituency – Biography of Freeman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newport Constituency – Biography of Freeman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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