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 : Warwick and Leamington

CANDIDATE : Bithell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Bithell was born in 1909, and is a native of Wrexham, north Wales. He is an accountant by profession and has been a member of Tamworth Borough Council since 1946. For 20 years he has been a Baptist lay preacher, and is a member of the Baptist Men’s Movement National Executive Council. A member of the Clerical and Administrative Workers’ Union, he has been a lecturer at the National Council of Labour Colleges.

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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 : Westbury

CANDIDATE : Travess

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. J. Travess, who contested Exeter in 1945, has been a railway engine driver and an active member of the National Union of Rail-waymen, being twice elected to the executive. Took part in international transport conferences in Germany, Northern Ireland, and Eire. He is 49.

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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 : Bridlington

CANDIDATE : Pashby

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Pashby holds a position in a Hull firm of builders and contractors. His father is an alderman, and his mother was for 20 years a member of Hull City Council. He has worked for the Labour Party in several capacities.

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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 : Colne Valley

CANDIDATE : Smith

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. E. E. Smith, wife of the head of a cotton spinning firm, and the mother of four children, gained her B.A. degree at Manchester University, where she was at one time adviser on agricultural economics. She is a member of the West Riding 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 : Penistone

CANDIDATE : Hinchcliffe

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Hinchcliffe is a native of Batley and holds an honorary degree in history from Cambridge University. He joined a Manchester firm of cotton spinners and manufacturers, and since 1937, with the exception of the war years, has represented them in Leeds and South Yorkshire. He served with the R.A.F. during the war.

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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 : Aberdare

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. E. Thomas, 57, is a native of Maesteg, where he worked as a miner until 1919, when he became a trade union official. He transferred in 1934 to Aberdare as local secretary and later was elected miners’agent. He became M.P. at a by-election in December, 1946.

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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 : Thomas

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Ivor Thomas, former Under-Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, and the Colonial Office, was M.P. for Keighley from 1942 to the dissolution. He resigned from the Labour Party in 1948 because of his opposition to the Iron and Steel Act. Born in 1905 and educated at St. John’s College and Magdalen College, Oxford, he has been on the staff of London newspapers. He was commissioned in 1940 in The Norfolk Regiment.

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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 : Breconshire and Radnorshire

CANDIDATE : Watkins

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. E. Watkins, who has acted as secretary to the Welsh Parliamentary Party, entered Parliament in 1945, when he won the Brecon and Radnor seat from the Conservatives. Born in Abercrave in 1903, from 1928 to 1933 he was political agent for the division and in 1937 was appointed general secretary to the Breconshire Association of Friendly Societies. For 16 years he was secretary to the divisional 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 : Llanelli

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. G. Thomas, born in 1925, was a student at the University College of Wales until he volunteered for air crew duties with the Royal Air Force. After the war he graduated at Cambridge and became vice-president of Cambridge University Liberal Society.

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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 : Herbert

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Herbert is a son of the late Col. Aubrey Herbert, who was for 12 years member for Yeovil, and a grandson of the Earl of Caernarvon who was Secretary for the Colonies and a Viceroy of Ireland under Disraeli. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he was three times medically rejected for the British Army, but volunteered for the 1st Polish Armoured Division and served with them for five years in the ranks.

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