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 : Runcorn

CANDIDATE : Wharrad

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. H. Wharrad was born in 1911 and is organization adviser to the Raw Cotton Commission. He is chairman of the Bromley Fabian Society, and contested the Bromley Borough Council elections in 1947. During the war he served in the R.A.F. and rose to the rank of wing commander.

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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 : Cornwall North

CANDIDATE : Foot

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Dingle Foot, who was born in Plymouth in 1905, is a son of Mr. Isaac Foot. He was called to the Bar when he was 25, and practises on the Western Circuit. In 1931 he was elected M.P. for Dundee, a constituency which he represented for 14 years. In Mr. Churchill’s war-time Government he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare. He was present at the San Francisco Conference which framed the United Nations Charter.

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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 : Belper

CANDIDATE : Brown

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. A. Brown, aged 34, won Belper in 1945. He began his working life as a shop assistant, and later became a full-time official of the Transport and General Workers’ Union. He was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Labour until 1947, and afterwards with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Later he became joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture. He served on the Hertfordshire War Agricultural Committee.

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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 : Derbyshire West

CANDIDATE : Wakefield

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. B. Wakefield, born in 1903, was educated at Haileybury and Cambridge, and in 1927 entered the Indian Civil Service. He served in several Indian States as Chief Minister, and in 1946-47 worked under Lord Wavell and Lord Mountbatten. He is a brother of Sir W. W. Wakefield, and holds the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society for saving life from drowning in 1933.

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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 : Torrington

CANDIDATE : Rashleigh

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. E. Rashleigh, wife of a doctor, is vice-president of the Devon and Cornwall Liberal Federation; she has undertaken much public work and is a leading figure in the Women’s Institute and youth movements.

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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 : Bishop Auckland

CANDIDATE : Lambton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Viscount Lambton, aged 27, is the heir to the Earl of Durham. During the war he served for a time in The Hampshire Regiment, but was invalided out. He then took up war work in a Wallsend factory. In 1945 he was chairman of the Young Conservative organization in the northern area, comprising Northumberland, Durham, and Cumberland, and he was a member of Durham County Council from 1947 to 1949, when he did not seek re-election. He was educated at Harrow.

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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 : Jarrow

CANDIDATE : Cox

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. L. Cox is manager of a quarrying firm’s purchasing department, and is vice-chairman of the Northern Area Young Conservatives. He is also a member of the national executive committee of the Young Conservative Central Council. He is aged 27.

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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 : Colchester

CANDIDATE : Goldblatt

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Goldblatt, educated at Cambridge, and engaged in the timber trade, worked with the timber control department of the Ministry of Supply 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 : Thurrock

CANDIDATE : Siddons

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. N. Siddons is a descendant of the famous actress and is an actor. Born in 1921, he was educated at Leicester and then studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. He served with Bomber Command during the war as a flight lieutenant and won the D.F.C.

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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 : Aldershot

CANDIDATE : Gooden

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. Gooden, farmer and estate manager, with a good deal of experience in factory and industrial work, was born in 1909 and was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford. He is a member of executives of Wells and West Dorset Liberal Associations.

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