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 : Stretford

CANDIDATE : Austin

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. L. Austin represented the division from 1945 until the dissolution. Born in 1911, he started work at the age of 11 as a carpenter and became works manager and later a director of an aircraft factory. He joined the Royal Navy in 1943 and served on the staff at Fleet Air Arm headquarters. In the House of Commons he has served on Labour Party Committees for Defence and the Services.

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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 : Torquay

CANDIDATE : Briscoe

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Briscoe, a Londoner, aged 34, is education secretary to Plymouth Co-operative Society. He has been an organizer for the National Council of Labour Colleges and has been lecturer for the Co-operative Union at summer schools. Born in 1914, he went to a secondary school and Oriel College, Oxford, and holds an Oxford University diploma for economics and political science.

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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 : Wallasey

CANDIDATE : Hindle

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. L. Hindle, history master at a Warrington school and a W.E.A. tutor on current affairs, was born in 1920. His father was Labour agent at Stafford and for 24 yea’rs at Warrington, where his son followed him as editor of a local Labour journal. An ex-R.A.F. bomber pilot, he is a Rugby Union player, active in sports and youth welfare.

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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 : Warrington

CANDIDATE : Park

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. C. Park, managing director of a Liverpool firm of motor engineers, is 54. As a keen gardener he runs a small nursery on semi-commercial lines. His firm practises a system of co-partnership.

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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 Bromwich

CANDIDATE : Ednam

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Viscount Ednam, son of the Earl of Dudley and a director of a Brierley Hill steelworks and other companies, was born in 1920 and educated at Eton and Oxford. From 1939 to 1945 he served with the Royal Armoured Corps and was wounded in Italy. Since the war he has been with a firm of chartered accountants and the British Iron and Steel Federation.

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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 : Willesden West

CANDIDATE : Viant

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. P. Viant first won the seat in 1923, lost it in 1931, and has held it since 1935. Born in Plymouth, he went to London to work as a joiner when 19, and is a member of the Amalgamated Society of Wood-workers. He was Assistant Postmaster-General in the 1929-31 Labour Government.

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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 : Woodford

CANDIDATE : Brooks

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Brooks is 33 years of age, and is national secretary of the Young Communist League. He is a native of Bristol, and joined the Labour Party in 1934. The year after he joined the Young Communist League and the Communist Party a year later. He served in the Army 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 : Bedford

CANDIDATE : Matthews

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. B. Matthews was presented at the Coronation Court in 1936, and then gave up society life and joined the Communist Party. Thirty-five years of age, she studied at the London School of Economics. After her marriage to Mr. G. Matthews, a former Labour candidate in Mid-Bedfordshire, she became an active Communist locally, and is now a member of the national executive of the Party.

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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 : Windsor

CANDIDATE : Mars

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Cmdr. A. Mars, born in 1915, began his naval career at Dartmouth, first went to sea in 1932, and served in submarines during the war. When in command of the Unbroken he created a record by torpedoing two fast-moving enemy cruisers with one salvo. He passed the Naval Staff course and went to New Zealand as first lieutenant of the Navy’s training cruiser. Before returning to England he did three months’ service in Hongkong.

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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 : Wycombe

CANDIDATE : Leigh

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. E. Leigh is a journalist who became London secretary of the Tenants’ Defence League. She was secretary of the Amersham and Chesham Communist Party in 1944.

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