CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Camberwell Peckham
CANDIDATE : Gibson
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. T. Gibson, aged 34, son of a Tyneside shipyard worker, is a teacher. He served with the R.A.F. in the war, and is secretary of the local Communist Party.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fulham West
CANDIDATE : Summerskill
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Dr. Edith Summerskill was appointed Jjj Parliamentary Secretary W to the Ministry of Food I in 1945 and is a Privy §J’ Councillor. Born in l”01, she became a doctor in 1924, and was in practice until 1945. khe is married to a doctor, and has two children. From 1932 to 1938, she served on the Middlesex County Council, and was elected to Parliament in 1938.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hammersmith South
CANDIDATE : Ritter
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. J. S. Ritter, who was born in 1925, was educated at Cheltenham and the London School of Economics. A former Civil servant, he is a professional philatelist. In 1947-48 he was chairman of the London University Liberal Federation. During the war he was a radio officer in the Merchant Navy.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Islington South West
CANDIDATE : Waddilove
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. G. W. Waddilove is a Fleet Street printer and an active trade unionist. During the war he served with the Air Ministry and for four years was inspector-in-charge of aircraft factories. He is 39.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lambeth Vauxhall
CANDIDATE : Lockwood
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. A. F. Lockwood, who was born in 1896, served four years in the Middlesex Regt., which he rejoined in August, 1939. He saw service in North Africa and in Europe, reaching the rank of major. He is a company secretary and a Freeman of the City of London. For 12 years he was a member of the Camberwell Borough Council, and is a former chairman of the Peckham Conservative Association.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paddington North
CANDIDATE : Cohen
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. D. Cohen, who was educated at council and Central schools, was born in 1917. He is a technician in a furniture factory, and during the war he was a captain of a Lancaster bomber. He has four times contested municipal elections.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Shoreditch and Finsbury
CANDIDATE : Thurtle
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. E. Thurtle, who sat in Parliament as member for Shoreditch from 1923 to 1931 and since 1935, is a son-in-law of the late Mr. George Lansbury, at one time leader of the Labour Opposition. He was born in New York State in 1884 and became an accountant and salesman. In the first world war he was severely wounded at Cambrai and afterwards became an active champion of ex-service men. He has been a Labour Whip and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information from 1941 to 1945. For some years he has been journalist and author.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wandsworth Central
CANDIDATE : Adams
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. R. Adams, aged 38, attended the London School of Economics and took a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He has been an advertising and sales executive, and Assistant Commissioner for National Savings. In 1945 he won the Balham and?Tooting division, which disappeared in the redistribution. He was appointed an assistant Government whip in i?47, and a Lord Commissioner of the ireasury in 1949. He served as a tank officer in North Africa and Italy during the fa,r. and later as staff officer, Land Forces, Adriatic.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Woolwich East
CANDIDATE : Dutt
PARTY : Comm.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. R. P. Dutt, vice-chairman and founder member of the Communist Party in Britain, has played a prominent part in its central leadership since 1922. He is one of the foremost English-speaking exponents of Marxism. He was expelled from Oxford University, where he was a Balliol scholar, in 1917 for international socialist activities. He is a journalist and author.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ashton-under-Lyne
CANDIDATE : Howcroft
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Lt.-Col. G. B. Howcroft, aged 54, is a practising architect in Oldham, a lecturer on architecture at Manchester University, and a director of a spinning company. An active member of Oldham Borough Council, he is also chairman of the dilapidations committee in the Manchester diocese and a member of the church building and sites committee. Served with the 7th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in 1914-18 and was in command of it at the outbreak of the last war.
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