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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds West Constituency – Biography of Mather

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leeds West Constituency – Biography of Mather

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds West

    CANDIDATE : Mather

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. B. Mather, who reduced the Labour majority in West Leeds by 10,000 at the by-election in July, 1949, was born in Leeds in 1914. Ed ucated at Leeds University, he became a schoolmaster, but left that profession to enter the family beer and wine business. During the war he worked for the Admiralty on research into magnetic and acoustic mines.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leigh Constituency – Biography of Whiteley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leigh Constituency – Biography of Whiteley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leigh

    CANDIDATE : Whiteley

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. W. Whiteley, a barrister, is in the unusual position of being a member of two councils—Salford City and Prestwich Borough. Born in 1903, he is a partner in a firm of electrical engineers and contractors. He is also chairman of a Salford motor company. He is associated with Salford Royal Hospital, and is a past chairman of the Lancashire Fusiliers Cadet Welfare Committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Liverpool Kirkdale Constituency – Biography of Keenan

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Liverpool Kirkdale Constituency – Biography of Keenan

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Liverpool Kirkdale

    CANDIDATE : Keenan

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. Keenan is an alderman and ex-mayor of Bootle, and has long been connected with the trade union movement, first with the National Union of Railwaymen and later with the Transport and General Workers’ Union. He has been the member for Kirkdale since 1945. He joined the Labour Party in 1920.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Liverpool West Derby Constituency – Biography of Kirby

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Liverpool West Derby Constituency – Biography of Kirby

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Liverpool West Derby

    CANDIDATE : Kirby

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. B. V. Kirby represented the Everton division from 1935 until it disappeared in the redistribution. He served for five years in the 1914-18 war and was awarded the D.C.M. Now 62 years of age, he has been for many years a leading personality in the Liverpool Labour Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Exchange Constituency – Biography of Griffiths

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Exchange Constituency – Biography of Griffiths

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Exchange

    CANDIDATE : Griffiths

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. D. Griffiths, who won Moss Side from the Conservatives in 1945, is a consulting ophthalmic optician in Wythenshawe. Born in 1912, he was educated at an elementary school and privately. He served over three years in the Middle East and was with the 8th Army at El Alamein. He is chairman of the Manchester branch of the Socialist Medical Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Merton and Morden Constituency – Biography of Ryder

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Merton and Morden Constituency – Biography of Ryder

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Merton and Morden

    CANDIDATE : Ryder

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Capt. R. E. D. Ryder, R.N., V.C, was born in 1908 and was educated at Cheltenham College. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1925, and was awarded the King’s Dirk while serving in the cadet training ship H.M.S. Erebus. He was promoted commander in December, 1940, and captain in June, 1948, and commanded the research vessel Penola on the Rymill Expedition to the Antarctic. He was naval liaison officer on the staff of Field-Marshal Alexander at the headquarters of Southern Command. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for the part he played while in command of the naval forces in the St. Nazaire raid in 1943, and was three times mentioned in dispatches. Since the war he has been British Naval Attache at Oslo.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle-under-Lyme Constituency – Biography of Friend

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle-under-Lyme Constituency – Biography of Friend

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newcastle-under-Lyme

    CANDIDATE : Friend

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. J. A. Friend is a Regular Army officer who was commissioned in 1936 after education at Harrow and Sandhurst, and retired in 1947. He served with the 7th Armoured Division in the Middle East and was twice mentioned in dispatches. He was a liaison officer through the Battles of Alamein and of the Western Desert, and was later posted as chief armoured car instructor at Sandhurst. In 1944 he took part in the liberation of Europe, and in 1945 was with the Allied Military Government of Hanover.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norwich North Constituency – Biography of Paton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norwich North Constituency – Biography of Paton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norwich North

    CANDIDATE : Paton

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Paton was born in Aberdeen in 1886 and is a journalist. In 1945 he won one of the two Norwich seats from the Conservatives with a majority of 7,328. He is a member of Herts County Council and was on the defunct Barnet Board of Guardians and Welwyn Garden City Council. His wife, Mrs. Florence Paton, was also a Labour M.P. in the last Parliament but was unsuccessful at Carlton (Notts) in this election.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nottingham South Constituency – Biography of Rees-Davies

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nottingham South Constituency – Biography of Rees-Davies

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nottingham South

    CANDIDATE : Rees-Davies

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies, born in 1916, was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he was a prominent cricketer. He was called to the Bar in 1939, and is a practising barrister. Commissioned in the?Welsh Guards at the outbreak of the late war, he served later, on the staff of Gen. Sir Oliver Leese, with the Guards Armoured Division. He lost his right arm while on service.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Plymouth Devonport Constituency – Biography of Foot

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Plymouth Devonport Constituency – Biography of Foot

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Plymouth Devonport

    CANDIDATE : Foot

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Michael Foot, born in 1913, a son of Mr. Isaac Foot, was educated at Leighton Park School, Reading, and Wadham College, Oxford (exhibitioner). In 1933 he was president of the Oxford Union and . toured the United States as the representative of the Union. A member of the Labour Party executive, he is a journalist, and is the author of several political books.

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