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 : Dover

CANDIDATE : Owen

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. J. Owen, aged 48, comes of a Welsh mining family, and is an employee of the National Coal Board. He has been tutor-organizer of the National Council of Labour Colleges, and educational secretary of the London Co-operative Society. For six years he was a member of Leicestershire 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 : Maidstone

CANDIDATE : Rice

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. F. Rice, aged 41, is the principal of a?transport and shipping firm, and founder chairman of the Bury St. Edmunds branch of the Road Haulage Association. Since the war he has spent much time in studying transport problems in Continental ports and traffic centres.

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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 : Clitheroe

CANDIDATE : Wyers

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Wyers, aged 59, is a temporary Civil servant at Blackpool. He is vice-chairman of Blackpool (N. Division) Liberal Association and active in the local youth movement and the Methodist Church.

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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 : Lancaster

CANDIDATE : Maclean

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. Fitzroy Maclean won the division when he was a second lieutenant in 1941. Born in 1911, he served the Foreign Office in Paris and Moscow, but resigned from the diplomatic service to enlist as a private in The Cameron Highlanders. Later he joined the First Special Air Service Regiment. A feature in an adventurous life which he has led was his visit to the headquarters of Tito as head of the British Military Mission to Yugoslavia.

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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 : South Fylde

CANDIDATE : Lancaster

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. C. G. Lancaster was a prominent colliery owner until nationalization, and he represented the old Fylde division since 1938. Born in 1899 and educated at Eton, he is director of several industrial companies, and had a distinguished record in the war. He commanded The 9th Sherwood Foresters, one of the last units to leave Dunkirk. He has been a leading spokesman for the Opposition on coal and other industrial problems.

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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 : Melton

CANDIDATE : Nutting

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Anthony Nutting, a former secretary to Mr. Anthony Eden, was an attache at the British Embassy, Paris, until the fall of France, and assisted in the evacuation of ?he women and children. In 1941 he organized intelligence and escape lines for allied personnel in Spain, and in 1944-45 served at the British Embassy in Rome. He was chairman of the Young Conservatives organization, 1946-47. Born in 1920, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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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 : Gainsborough

CANDIDATE : Saville

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. S. Saville, aged 51, was born in London and educated at a grammar school and privately. He served in the first world war from the age of 16, and in the second was attached to the Ministry of Information. He has been a social worker in London, and is engaged on the manufacturing side of the millinery business.

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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 : King’s Lynn

CANDIDATE : Wise

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. J. Wise became first Labour member for I the division in 1945. Born in 1887, he is a fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and for many years worked in the King’s Lynn valuation office of the Inland Revenue Department. Until last Michaelmas he farmed 750 acres in Oxfordshire. He served, with The Suffolk Regiment and in the air in the first world war, and in the last war was a land officer on the Air Ministry staff.

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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 : Kettering

CANDIDATE : Isham

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir G. Isham, after leaving Oxford where he was president of the Union, took to the stage and films, playing in this country and America. During the war he rose from private in The London Irish Rifles to major on the staff at Middle East Headquarters, and staff officer in intelligence at Ninth Army headquarters. After holding a staff appointment at the War Office he became Defence Security Officer in Palestine.

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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 : Hexham

CANDIDATE : Hancock

PARTY : Ind. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Alexander Hancock is 52 and?a Northamptonshire farmer who was formerly in business as a shoe manufacturer. In the 1945 General Election he opposed Mr. Winston Churchill in the new division of Woodford, and surprisingly polled over 10,000 votes as an Independent against Mr. Churchill’s 27,000. In his election address then he advocated one hour’s productive work a day for everybody —equal to a one-day working week with six days’ leisure—and the development of a ” philosophic community.”

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