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 : Southport

CANDIDATE : Bonney

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. P. Bonney, a Southport solicitor and a vice-president of the local Labour Party, was born at Preston in 1909. He served with a Blackpool firm of solicitors, was deputy coroner for South Worcestershire, and after working in Sheffield and Liverpool now practises at Southport.

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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 : Stoke-on-Trent Central

CANDIDATE : Hancock

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Hancock, aged 50, was’chief electric?l engineer of the royal Ordnance factory at *->wynnerton during the war, and is now managing director of a commercial company, formerly a Liberal, he joined the Conservative Party in 1931.% He served many years on Moke-on-Trent City! Council and was made an alderman in^l949.

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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 : Sutton and Cheam

CANDIDATE : Judd

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. H. O. Judd, born in 1902, is the daughter of a well-known Scottish missionary (the Rev. F. Ashcroft) and the wife of Mr. C. W. Judd, secretary of the United Nations Association. She graduated with honours at Edinburgh University in 1925 and afterwards was occupied with teaching and other social activities. She is interested in training colonial students in welfare developments in the Colonies.

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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 : Tynemouth

CANDIDATE : Ward

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss Irene Ward, M.P. for Wallsend 1931-45, entered politics at 24 and twice defeated Miss Margaret Bondfield at Wallsend. In Parliament she gave great attention to the industrial needs of Tyneside, and also promoted a private Bill enabling local authorities to pay pocket money to old people in institutions.

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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 : Walthamstow East

CANDIDATE : Drower

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. F. Drower, an insurance surveyor, born in 1916, served in the R.N.V.R. during the war from Iceland to the Pacific and was present at the landings in Normandy. He was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant.

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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 : Wembley North

CANDIDATE : Dann

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Dann, an average-adjuster, was educated at Oxford and was president of the Oxford University Liberal Club in 1948. He is a member of the Liberal Party Council. Commissioned in The Welsh Guards during the war, he served in Italy and Austria with the 1st Guards Brigade. He was born in 1924.

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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 : Wigan

CANDIDATE : Dowling

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Dowling contested the 1948 by-election. He is 47, a native of Wigan, and a teacher at a local school. A member of Wigan Borough Council for 18 years, he is an alderman and was mayor in 1943-44. He is on the local executive of the National Union of Teachers and is interested in social work and sport.

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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 : Wolverhampton South West

CANDIDATE : Powell

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. Powell is a Birmingham man, and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. For two years he was Professor of Greek at Sydney University. During the war he saw service with the Army, and was a brigadier. After the war he joined the Conservative Party secretariat and was joint head of the home affairs section.

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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 : York

CANDIDATE : Hylton-Foster

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. B. Hylton-Foster, K.C.,aged 44, is the son-in-law of the Speaker. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, he is Recorder of Hudders-field and Chancellor of the Dioceses of Ripon and Durham. He was legal secretary to Lord Finlay at the Permanent Court of International Justice, 1928, and deputy judge advocate in North Africa and Italy 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 : Abingdon

CANDIDATE : Dunman

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Dunman, aged 38, was educated at Marlborough and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1938 he gave up an appointment with the London and North Eastern Railway to work as an organizer for the Communist Party, and he is now the Party’s national organizer for agriculture. He contested this division in 1945.

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