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 : Smethwick

CANDIDATE : Fallon

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Fallon, aged 61, is a prominent Smethwick industrialist with a knowledge of the metallurgical industries in many countries. He is a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He has carried out metallurgical engineering work in America and Europe, and served on a number of Government committees 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 : Southend West

CANDIDATE : Scott

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. M. Scott, a member of the Liberal ” Shadow Cabinet,” is a son of the Mr. MacCullum Scott who sat in Parliament for many years as an M.P. for Glasgow. During the war he served on General Montgomery’s invasion staff. He has travelled widely and given much time to the foundation of the Liberal International.

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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 : Stockport South

CANDIDATE : Hewitt

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Hewitt, one time assistant to Mr. J. R. Clynes, M.P., and organizer of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, was labour manager and later industrial relations officer at a big chemical works. In 1948 he represented the British Chemical industry at the first meeting of the Chemical Industries Committee in Paris. A lecturer and writer, he was a member of the Government committee on industrial diseases last year.

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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 : Sunderland North

CANDIDATE : Hurst

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Hurst, aged 31, is a native of Prest-wich, Lancashire, and was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University. He is a research mechanical engineer with a Tyneside firm and chairman of the Northern Area Young Liberals.

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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 : Tottenham

CANDIDATE : Allen

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Allen is the son of a New Zealand doctor, and was educated at Epsom College and St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he took an honours degree in history. He was resident assistant at the boys’ club in Bermond-sey, and on the staff of the Islington medical mission before the war, and is now engaged in adult teaching at Oak Hill College, Southgate. He served in The Suffolk Regiment and was commissioned.

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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 : Wallsend

CANDIDATE : Craggs

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Craggs, born in 1886, has lived for half a century in the division, where he has been a well-known social worker and keen industrialist. He is vice-president of the Northern Liberal Federation and chairman of Newcastle Liberal Club. He is chairman and managing director of a firm of paint manufacturers, and a member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers.

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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 : Watford

CANDIDATE : Bush

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. B. Bush is the joint managing director of a firm of manufacturing chemists. Born in 1896 he was educated at Highgate High School and has been a parish councillor for four years. In the first world war he served as a lieutenant with the Army, and was in A.R.P. and the Home Guard in the last 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 : West Ham North

CANDIDATE : Dickinson

PARTY : Christian Democrat

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss G. W. Dickinson, a teacher, formerly lived at Forest Gate. She early qualified in science and mathematics, and became head mistress of a Newcastle training college. After working in a Government department under Sir William (now Lord) Beveridge on the wages question, she returned to Oxford to study economics and philosophy.

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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 : Wimbledon

CANDIDATE : Deacon

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. L. Deacon, born in 1893, was a student of commerce at Reading University. He is a company secretary and director, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries. He is a former hon. secretary of Ilford Trades Council, and was chairman of Caver-sham Labour Party for seven years. He is on the Surrey County Council, and a member of the Clerical and Administrative Workers’ Union.

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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 : Worcester

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Evans is a school teacher. When he left school at 14 he worked in one of the anthracite mines in South Wales. After four years of soldiering he returned to his former occupation, and then gained admission to a training college where he qualified as a school teacher. He has been associated with the administration of the Co-operative Society for many years. He is a former president of the Llanelly Divisional Labour Party. He lives in Carmarthenshire.

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