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 : East Ham South

CANDIDATE : Borrott

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. A. Borrott, a transport manager, was born in 1909 and educated at llford County High School. He lived in Barking for some years and was on the committee of the ratepayers’ association. His father was a policeman. Mr. Borrott lives at Brighton and is a keen cricketer, playing for East Brighton.

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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 : Eton and Slough

CANDIDATE : Cobb

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. E. C. Cobb was M.P. for Preston, 1936-45, and transferred to Eton and Slough at the last election, when he was defeated by Mr. Benn Levy. Born in 1891 and educated at St. Paul’s School, London, and Sandhurst, he joined The Northamptonshire Regiment in 1911 and saw active service in the 1914-18 war, being mentioned in dispatches and awarded the D.S.O. While a member he was Parliamentary private secretary to several Ministers.

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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 : Gloucester

CANDIDATE : Kershaw

PARTY : C. and Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Kershaw, aged 34, is a company Erector and a barrister, though not in practice. At the beginning of the war he served in th nondon River Police. He later served in we Royal Artillery in the ranks, and by the end oi the war had been promoted lieutenant-colonel at the Staff College. A keen sportsman he has played Rugby football for the Harlequins. Has been a member of the L.C.C.

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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 : Harrow East

CANDIDATE : Banks

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. A. H. Banks, aged 30, was educated at Alpha Preparatory School, Harrow, and University College School, Hampstead. Before the war he was secretary of Kenton Liberal Association, and in the war served in The King’s Royal Rifle Corps and Royal Artillery, and as intelligence officer at Eighth Army headquarters. He has been on the executive of the London Liberal Speakers’ Training Association.

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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 : Hendon North

CANDIDATE : Gould

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. B. Ayrton Gould had four electoral contests before being returned for N. Hendon in 1945. Educated at Notting Hill High School and University College, London, she was publicity manager of the Daily Herald, 1919-21. For the following 18 years she did voluntary work for the Union of General and Municipal Workers. In 1929-31 she served on the Royal Commission on the Civil Service, and in 1932 was acting Chief Woman Officer of the Labour Party. She was chairman of the Party 1939-40. She is vice-chairman of the British 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 : Hove

CANDIDATE : Colclough

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. R. Colclough, aged 44, is a barrister and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. F?r five years a trooper in the Inns of Court Regiment he was commissioned at the outbreak of war and later held a staff appointment. He was educated at Westminster School and Cambridge and at the London School of Economics.

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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 : Ipswich

CANDIDATE : Seward

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Seward, an engineer, of Aylesbury, is 42 and was educated at Dover College. He entered the firm of Thornycrofts and went to India, and joined Rootes and General Motors on returning to England. He is now in a family motor 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 : Kingston upon Thames

CANDIDATE : Boyd-Carpenter

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Boyd-Carpenter, aged 41, entered Parliament in 1945. A grandson of Bishop Boyd-Carpenter of Ripon, and son of the late Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, M.P. for Chertsey, 1931-37, he was educated at Stowe School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in 1933, and practised until the outbreak of war. In 1940 he was commissioned in the Scots Guards, and later served with the Allied Military Government.

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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 : Leeds South

CANDIDATE : Gaitskell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Hugh Gaitskell became Minister of Fuel and Power in 1946. He was born in 1906 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, graduating with first-class honours in philosophy, politics, and economics. Later he became a lecturer on economics and was appointed head of the Department of Political Economy at London University in 1938. During the war he was private secretary to the Minister of Economic Warfare and later to Mr. Hugh Dalton at the Board of Trade. He was elected for South Leeds in 1945.

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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 : Leicester South East

CANDIDATE : Waterhouse

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. Charles Waterhouse represented the old South division of Leicester for 21 years, but was defeated at the 1945 election. He was an Assistant Whip in 1935-36 ; a Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1936; Comptroller of H.M. Household, 1937-38, and Treasurer in 1938-39; and became Assistant Postmaster-General from 1939 to 1941 ; and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1941 to 1945. He was educated at Cheltenham and Trinity College, Cambridge, and during the 1914-18 war served with the Life Guards.

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