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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sunderland North Constituency – Biography of Hurst

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sunderland North Constituency – Biography of Hurst

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tottenham Constituency – Biography of Allen

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tottenham Constituency – Biography of Allen

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wallsend Constituency – Biography of Craggs

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wallsend Constituency – Biography of Craggs

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Watford Constituency – Biography of Bush

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Watford Constituency – Biography of Bush

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Ham North Constituency – Biography of Dickinson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Ham North Constituency – Biography of Dickinson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    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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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wimbledon Constituency – Biography of Black

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wimbledon Constituency – Biography of Black

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wimbledon

    CANDIDATE : Black

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. W. Black was born in 1902, and was educated at King’s College, Wimbledon. A chartered surveyor, he is chairman of the Temperance Permanent Building Society and associated with other companies. Serving on Wimbledon Borough Council since 1942, he was mayor in 1945-47, and became an alderman in 1949. He also sits for Wimbledon West on the Surrey County Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worcester Constituency – Biography of Ward

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worcester Constituency – Biography of Ward

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Worcester

    CANDIDATE : Ward

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. R. Ward, who represented Worcester in the last Parliament, retaining the seat in 1945 with a majority of four votes, is aged 42, and brother of the Earl of Dudley. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and joined the Royal Air Force when he was 21, serving for 15 years. During the first three years of the war he was actively engaged in operational flights as a pilot, and then as a lecturer at an R.A.F. staff college.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedfordshire South Constituency – Biography of Moeran

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedfordshire South Constituency – Biography of Moeran

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bedfordshire South

    CANDIDATE : Moeran

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. W. Moeran is a solicitor and a local man who has twice stood as a Common Wealth candidate. He was educated at Christ’s College, Finchley, and London University, and is a member of the Haldane Society and of the Atomic Scientists’ Association. He is 40.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aylesbury Constituency – Biography of Summers

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aylesbury Constituency – Biography of Summers

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aylesbury

    CANDIDATE : Summers

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Spencer Summers, who lost his seat at Northampton in 1945, is an iron and steel manufacturer, and vice-president of the British Iron and Steel Federation, 1939. In the war he was Director-General of Regional Organization in the Ministry of Supply, and in the ” caretaker ” Government was Secretary for Overseas Trade. Aged 47, he was educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cheadle Constituency – Biography of Shepherd

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cheadle Constituency – Biography of Shepherd

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cheadle

    CANDIDATE : Shepherd

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. S. Shepherd was born in 1912 and educated at Crewe, in Chesh?re. He is a writer on social, industrial and political subjects, and is a manufacturing chemist as well as a director of a film company and transport and catering businesses. For the past four years he has been hon. secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Committee on Trade and Industry.

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