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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bute and North Ayrshire Constituency – Biography of Aitken

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bute and North Ayrshire Constituency – Biography of Aitken

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bute and North Ayrshire

    CANDIDATE : Aitken

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Aitken, of Ardrossan, was born in 1903, and is a foreman employed by an oil refining company. A former chairman of the Ayr Burghs Labour Party, for the last 10 years he has been organizing secretary on the National Council of Labour Colleges.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Caithness and Sutherland Constituency – Biography of Robertson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Caithness and Sutherland Constituency – Biography of Robertson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Caithness and Sutherland

    CANDIDATE : Robertson

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir David Robertson, member for Streatham from 1939, was adopted for this constituency after the local Unionist Association had withdrawn support for the sitting member, Mr. E. L. Gandar Dower. Born 60 years ago in Glasgow, he was educated at Allan Glen’s Schools and Glasgow University. He served in the Ministry of Food at the end of the first war and was chief accountant to the Ministry at the Paris Peace Conference. Afterwards he became managing director of fish and cold storage companies.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fife West Constituency – Biography of Gallacher

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Fife West Constituency – Biography of Gallacher

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Fife West

    CANDIDATE : Gallacher

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. Gallacher represented the constituency from 1935 to the dissolution. He was the only Communist M.P. until the General Election of 1945 made him the leader of a party of two. He was chairman of the Clyde Workers Committee from 1914 to 1918, and has been a leading member of the Communist Party and the Communist International since 1920.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lanark Constituency – Biography of Steele

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lanark Constituency – Biography of Steele

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lanark

    CANDIDATE : Steele

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. Steele, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of National Insurance in the last Parliament, is 45, and was educated at an elementary school. He is the son of a miner and became a railway clerk. Before his election to Parliament in 1945 he was a station-master. He has been a director of Lanark Co-operative Society, and in 1946 was on the Parliamentary delegation to Germany.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Orkney and Shetland Constituency – Biography of Grimond

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Orkney and Shetland Constituency – Biography of Grimond

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Orkney and Shetland

    CANDIDATE : Grimond

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Grimond, who is 36, is the son-in-law of Lady Violet Bonham Carter. He is a scholar of Balliol, having won there the Brackenbury History Scholarship. He also took 1st class Honours in ” Modern Greats.” He is a barrister. He reached the rank of major during the war and then worked with Unrra, leaving that organization to become secretary to the Scottish National Trust.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire Constituency – Biography of Thomas

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire Constituency – Biography of Thomas

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire

    CANDIDATE : Thomas

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. P. Thomas was born in 1896, and is a company director. He joined the Labour Party in 1926. He has held various positions in the Glasgow Parliamentary Debating Association fcr 15 years, and is a member of the Theosophical Society and founded the Young Theosophical Movement for Scotland in 1923. He is interested in international affairs, and lectured in the United States in 1947.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bethnal Green Constituency – Biography of Holman

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bethnal Green Constituency – Biography of Holman

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bethnal Green

    CANDIDATE : Holman

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. Holman was elected for S.W. Bethnal Green in 1945. Born in 1891 and educated at Mill Hill and the London School of Economics, he has been a member of Middlesex County Council and Teddington TJ.D.C. He was sometime lecturer for the Workers’ Educationa Association. He was a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party groups on finance and industry.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cities of London and Westminster Constituency – Biography of Gorsky

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cities of London and Westminster Constituency – Biography of Gorsky

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cities of London and Westminster

    CANDIDATE : Gorsky

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Dr. J. A. Gorsky, educated at King’s College, and a gold medallist of Westminster Hospital, has practised for 30 years in Westminster. He is also a barrister, deputy coroner for East and West Middlesex, divisional police surgeon of the London ” A ” division, and on the central council of the British Medical Association. His wife contested Swindon as a Liberal.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hackney South Constituency – Biography of Butler

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hackney South Constituency – Biography of Butler

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hackney South

    CANDIDATE : Butler

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. W. Butler: was elected for South Hackney in 1945. He is a former mayor of the borough, and has been a member of the council since 1928 ; he is chairman of the housing committee, and has also been leader of the council. Aged 51, he is a company director, and vice-president of the Association of Municipal Corporations.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Holborn and St Pancras South Constituency – Biography of Chapman-Walker

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Holborn and St Pancras South Constituency – Biography of Chapman-Walker

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Holborn and St Pancras South

    CANDIDATE : Chapman-Walker

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. J. F. Chapman-Walker was born in 1907, educated at Marlborough and the Sor-bonne, and was admitted a solicitor in 1930. He practises in London, and farms 200 acres at Ware in Hertfordshire. Mr. Chapman-Walker has travelled extensively in India, Australia, and the Far East. He served in the war in 1 he Hertfordshire Regiment, commanding an ^nglo-Australian force in the South-West Pacific.

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