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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brighouse and Spenborough Constituency – Biography of Woolley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brighouse and Spenborough Constituency – Biography of Woolley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brighouse and Spenborough

    CANDIDATE : Woolley

    PARTY : Nat. L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. E. Woolley, who was born in 1901, was National Liberal M.P. for Spen Valley. 1940-45, being defeated at the last election. A native of Blackburn, he is 49, and joint managing director of a firm of manufacturing chemists. In the war, he was on the headquarters staff of South-Eastern Command and later Western Command, reaching the rank of major. He has held many offices in Methodism.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol South Constituency – Biography of Wilkins

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol South Constituency – Biography of Wilkins

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol South

    CANDIDATE : Wilkins

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. A. Wilkins, formerly a linotype operator in a Bristol newspaper office, was born in 1899. He joined the Labour Party in 1922 and was for 10 years a member of Bristol City Council. Elected for South Bristol in 1945, he became an assistant Government Whip two years later and was afterwards appointed a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. During the wan as a stoker in the Royal Navy, he served on Q-ships submarine-hunting off the Irish coast.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Burnley Constituency – Biography of Carradice

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Burnley Constituency – Biography of Carradice

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Burnley

    CANDIDATE : Carradice

    PARTY : I.L.P.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. Carradice, 64 years of age, has been district organizer for the Independent Labour Party in Lancashire and Cheshire since 1946, after having been organizer in Glasgow for three years. He was previously a branch secretary of the General and Municipal Workers’ Union.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chesterfield Constituency – Biography of Barker

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chesterfield Constituency – Biography of Barker

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chesterfield

    CANDIDATE : Barker

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. B. Barker, a machine worker, a shop steward of the Amalgamated Engineers’ Union, fu ^airman of a works committee, lived in tne Soviet Union for two years and has been secretary of the Sheffield Communist Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Croydon East Constituency – Biography of Gray

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Croydon East Constituency – Biography of Gray

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Croydon East

    CANDIDATE : Gray

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. L. Gray, a Southern Counties representative of a Yorkshire textile firm, has been an active worker in the Liberal cause in Surrey for many years. He represents Whyteleafe on the Caterham and Warlinsrfiam Urban Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dartford Constituency – Biography of Giles

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dartford Constituency – Biography of Giles

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dartford

    CANDIDATE : Giles

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. H. Giles, a research engineer, was born in 1915 and educated at Winkfield County School, Berkshire. He served with The Rifle Brigade during the war, and was wounded at El Alamein. As a branch official of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, he is a delegate to Holborn Trades Council. He lives at Kenley, Surrey.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dudley Constituency – Biography of Farran

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dudley Constituency – Biography of Farran

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dudley

    CANDIDATE : Farran

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Maj. R. A. Farran was born in India in 1921 and educated there and at Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the 3rd Hussars, and in an adventurous service career gained many decorations including the American Legion of Merit and the Croix de Guerre. In 1948 he went to Southern Rhodesia, where he is a director of several companies, returning in October last after offering to contest Dudley for the Conservatives.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eccles Constituency – Biography of Proctor

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eccles Constituency – Biography of Proctor

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eccles

    CANDIDATE : Proctor

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. T. Proctor won the seat from the Conservatives in 1945. In 1948 he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Creech Jones, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Formerly a railway worker, Mr. Proctor is a former branch secretary of the National Union of Rail-waymen, and was once its representative on the International Transport Federation. He was born in 1896.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Exeter Constituency – Biography of Maude

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Exeter Constituency – Biography of Maude

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Exeter

    CANDIDATE : Maude

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr.J.C. Maude, K.C., entered Parliament for Exeter in 1945. He is a son of Sir Cyril Maude, the actor, and was born in 1901. . Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was called to the Bar in 1925. From 1939 until 1944 he was Recorder of Devizes, and then became Recorder of Plymouth. He took silk in 1943. At the outbreak of the second world war he became an officer in the Intelligence Corps, serving in this country and for 12 months in Washington as security officer for various British missions. Returning to England in 1942, he was employed in the Cabinet offices.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gosport and Fareham Constituency – Biography of Nobes

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gosport and Fareham Constituency – Biography of Nobes

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gosport and Fareham

    CANDIDATE : Nobes

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. R. Nobes, born in 1905, is a shipwright in Portsmouth dockyard. He attended the Dockyard Upper School and later the Municipal College for Naval Architecture. He was chairman of the Gosport Labour Party in 1928. He has served on the Gosport Borough Council since 1934, was mayor from 1946 to 1949, and was a member of the Hampshire County Council from 1943 to 1949.

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