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 : St Albans

CANDIDATE : Grimston

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Grimston was M.P. for the division 1943 to 1945, when he was defeated. Born in 1912, he is brother to the Earl of Verulam, and was educated at Oundle and Oxford. He spent two years tobacco farming in Southern Rhodesia, and is general manager of an Enfield company. He has had a wide experience of factory and production problems.

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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 : Chislehurst

CANDIDATE : Wallace

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. D. Wallace, aged 43, won the division in 1945, and became an assistant Government whip in 1947. He served in the R.A.F. during the war. From 1937 to 1946 he was a member of Chislehurst-Sidcup Urban District Council. In 1949 he attended the annual conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Stockholm. He has been a member of the Labour Party for 17 years and is specially interested in social welfare questions and the youth movement.

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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 : Isle of Thanet

CANDIDATE : Boyd

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. C. Boyd, born in Canada in 1916, son of a former vicar of Minster, was educated at Marlborough, Oxford, and the London School of Economics. In 1941 he became Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General at India G.H.Q., and in 1944 Under-Secretary to the Government of India. He was secretary to the Parliamentary delegation to India in 1946, afterwards principal of the central economic planning staff in the Cabinet office, and more recently attached to the Treasury.

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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 : Chorley

CANDIDATE : Fountaine

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Fountaine, a native of Edinburgh, was educated at Stave College, Bucks, and the Army College, Aldershot. In 1937 he joined the Royal Navy but was invalided out. At Cambridge he took a chemistry degree and in the war was engaged on experimental work at Woolwich. Although adopted by the local Conservative association his candidature at this election was not recognized by the party Standing Advisory Committee at headquarters.

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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 : Huyton

CANDIDATE : McGree

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. McGree, a joiner, is president of the north-west region of the National Federation of Building Trade Operatives and of the Mersey District Confederation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trade Unions. He is a member of the Communist Party national executive.

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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 : North Fylde

CANDIDATE : Robinson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. W. Robinson, born in 1898, has many interests in the fishing industry. He was president of Fleetwood Fish Merchants’ Association for record period, 1940-47, and for two years chairman of the Federation of British Port Wholesale Fish Merchants’ Associations. He is also chairman of companies of trawler managers and wholesale fish merchants. He was educated at the Grammar School, Grimsby, and has served on Grimsby Town Council since 1945.

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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 : Harborough

CANDIDATE : Symington

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. H. Symington, farmer and company director, aged 46, was educated at Rugby and King’s College, Cambridge. He has been a member of Market Harborough U.D.C. since 1946. Twelve years ago he crossed the Sahara Desert on a motor-cycle. In December, 1949, he published a seven-point policy, which included the abolition of P.A.Y.E.

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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 : Brigg

CANDIDATE : Staniland

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. F. Staniland, aged 35, is a native of Boston, where his father and grandfather were successively town clerk, and which his grandfather represented in Parliament as a Liberal M.P. Educated at Rugby and Cambridge, he served in the war with The Lincolnshire Regiment, being wounded in Italy and gaining the M.C. He is a director of a London publishing company, and the author of a satire on Socialism, ” Back to the Future.”

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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 : Norfolk Central

CANDIDATE : Medlicott

PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. F. Medlicott was first elected to Parliament as member for East Norfolk in 1919 as a Liberal National. He was a Territorial lance-bombardier in the Royal Artillery when called up in 1939, and rose to become a Brigadier in 21st Army Group. He was born in 1903 in Taunton, and articled to a local solicitor. He now practises in 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 : Yarmouth

CANDIDATE : Baker

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. C. Baker, born in 1892, gained his cricket blue at Cambridge and occasionally played for Sussex some years ago. After service in the 1914-18 war he became a staff captain at the Army School of Instruction, Shorncliffe, and later took an appointment in Malaya. After the second world war, in which he was an Army instmctor, he was a senior history master at Bedford School for two years before returning to Cambridge to join the extra-mural board.

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