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 : Sedgefield

CANDIDATE : Walford

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. J. E. S. Walford, a Regular officer for 29 years until 1947, serving first with The Worcestershire Regiment and then with the Royal Corps of Signals, was educated at Malvern and Sandhurst. He is a well-known cricketer, having played for Worcestershire, the Army, the M.C.C., and All Egypt. His wife was Conservative candidate at Darlington He was born in 1899.

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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 : Harwich

CANDIDATE : Janis

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Janis was taken prisoner of war at Singapore and held by the Japanese for three and a half years, working on the Siam railway and being later transferred to Japan, where he became a liaison officer and interpreter. Now aged 37 and a leather goods merchant, he began life as a shop assistant.

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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 : Gloucestershire South

CANDIDATE : Crosland

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. A. R. Crosland (30) is a lecturer on economics at Oxford University. A member of Oxford University Labour Party, he is on the national executive of the Fabian Society and was president of the Oxford Union in 1946. During the war he served with the Airborne Division in North Africa and Austria.

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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 : New Forest

CANDIDATE : Fry

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Fry, aged 37, is a pilot in B.O.A.C. and a former member of the British Airlines Pilots’ Association. Educated at St. Paul’s School, he took a short service commission in the R.A.F. and afterwards joined Imperial Airways.

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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 : Hemel Hempstead

CANDIDATE : Moss

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Moss, born in 1913, is a secondary schoolmaster at Hertford. He has wide experience of adult education through the National Council of Labour Colleges, the W.E.A., and the Co-operative movement. He has been secretary and chairman of the Hertford Divisional Labour 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 : Huntingdonshire

CANDIDATE : Thompson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. G. F. Thompson, head of a firm of solicitors at Esher (Surrey), where he lives was born at Hounslow (Middlesex) in 1902 and educated at Hampton Grammar School. At 14, he started work as a clerk for a London legal firm, studied in his spare time, and qualified as a solicitor in 1931. During the war he served in the R.A.F. as a flight lieutenant in the Air Ministry Secret Branch. He was a member of Esher Urban Council from 1934 to 1946, is a liveryman of the Solicitors’ Company, and a freeman of the City of London.

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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 : Faversham

CANDIDATE : Graham

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss E. Graham, aged 23, is a former secretary of the National League of Young Liberals and has recently been working in the family business in Yorkshire.

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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 : Sevenoaks

CANDIDATE : Rodgers

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Rodgers, aged 43, has travelled widely in Europe, America, and Russia on business and is chairman of the British Market Research Bureau, Ltd. During the war he worked in the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Production, and went on a special mission to Portugal for the Foreign Office. He was educated at St. Peter’s, York and also in France and at Oxford, where he was a scholar in modern history, and later joined the staff of University College, Hull.

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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 : Farnworth

CANDIDATE : Lomax

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Lomax, born in 1875, started work as a half-timer at 10, became a technological expert in the pottery trade, and introduced a famous glaze. He claims the distinction of being the first to advocate the de-rating of industry in 1907.

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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 : Middleton and Prestwich

CANDIDATE : Hilditch

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. S. Hilditch, born in 1906, took an honours degree in history at Manchester University and became senior history lecturer at Lancaster emergency training college. He has been chairman of the Chorley division Labour Party, president of the Leyland Labour Party, and a member of the executive of the Lancaster Labour Party. He was a flight lieutenant in the R.A.F. during the war.

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