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 : Carmarthen

CANDIDATE : Ungoed-Thomas

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. L. Ungoed-Thomas, K.C., in the last Parliament represented Llandaff and Barry, which he captured from the Conservatives in 1945. Born in 1904, he is the son of a Baptist minister. Educated at Haileybury and Magdalen College, Oxford, he graduated with honours, and was called to the Bar in 1929. He established a large practice in the Chancery division, and took silk in 1947. During the war he was on the staff at the War Office. He was a member last summer of the British delegation to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg.

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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 : Flintshire West

CANDIDATE : Ellis

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr.W. A. Ellis, a solicitor, was born in 1913 and graduated with first-class honours in law at the University College of Wales. During the war he attained the rank of major, and served at the general headquarters of India ?Command as deputy assistant director.

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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 : Ogmore

CANDIDATE : Gower

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. R. Gower, born in Neath in 1916, was educated at University College, Cardiff, and the Cardiff School of Law, and is a partner in a Cardiff firm of solicitors. He served during the war in the Royal Observer Corps and in Civil Defence. He is secretary of the Friends of Wales Society and a member of the Welsh Council of the ^United Nations Organization.

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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 : Monmouth

CANDIDATE : Thorneycroft

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, elected M.P. for Stafford in 1938, was defeated in 1945 but won a by-election at Monmouth in October of that year. Born in 1909 ?nd educated at Eton, he went on to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in 1930. Four years later he became a barrister and practised on the Oxford circuit. In the ” caretaker” Government he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.

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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 : Aberdeen South

CANDIDATE : Pirie

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. T. Pirie, aged 28, was a fighter pilot in the war and won the 0.F.M. He graduated at Aberdeen University in engineering, and was president of the Scottish Union of Students.

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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 : Edinburgh Central

CANDIDATE : Sleigh

PARTY : Ind. Scot. Nat.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. H. Sleigh is a retired cavalry officer, who served in the 1914-18 war. He has contested the Edinburgh Corporation elections, and at the last General Election in 1945 he was a candidate for the same constituency, when he forfeited his deposit.

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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 : Edinburgh West

CANDIDATE : Hutchison

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Cmdr. G. I. C. Hutchison, who became M.P. for the division in 1941, is son of a former member for North Midlothian. Born in 1903 and educated at Edinburgh Academy and Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth, he served in the Royal Navy and became a specialist in mines and torpedoes. He was inspector of naval ordnance, Edinburgh, and South East Scotland in the last war. For six years he was a member of Edinburgh Town 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 : Glasgow Gorbals

CANDIDATE : Kerrigan

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Kerrigan, aged 50, has been an active member of the Communist Party since 1921 and is a national organizer. In several municipal elections he has always been unsuccessful.

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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 : Glasgow Maryhill

CANDIDATE : Cowan

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss E. Cowan is an honours graduate of Glasgow University and lives in the Muirend district of the city. She has been working in England as a tutor in adult education.

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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 : Glasgow Tradeston

CANDIDATE : Rankin

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Rankin, a teacher, is 60 and joined the Labour Party in 1915. He fought the Pollok seat three times and was elected for Tradeston in 1945. Educated at Glasgow University, he has been lecturer and propagandist for the Scottish Labour College. He is a keen cooperator, and was once chairman of Glasgow I.L.P.

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