CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huyton
CANDIDATE : Edwards
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. H. G. Edwards is an estate agent and chairman of the Liverpool Liberal Federation. Has made two unsuccessful efforts to gain a seat on the Liverpool City Council.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : North Fylde
CANDIDATE : Couldry
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. P. Couldry, 32, is the West Yorkshire organizer and tutor for the National’Council of Labour Colleges. Educated at council schools and Catford Commercial Institute, he also studied with the National Council of Labour Colleges. He has been active in trade union, co-operative, and boys’ club movements.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Harborough
CANDIDATE : Bazeley
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Lt.-Col. H. C. Bazeley is 42, and after going to Blundell’s School, Devon, and Woolwich, joined the Royal Artillery in 1927, and retired 18 months ago. During the war he raised and commanded the original Air Observation Post Squadron, R.A.F., in the North African campaign, and was awarded the D.S.O. He was in the invasion of Normandy, and was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the American D.S.C.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brigg
CANDIDATE : Mallalieu
PARTY : Lab.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. E. L. Mallalieu was Liberal M.P. for Colne Valley, a seat previously held by his father, from 1931 to 1935, and won Brigg in a by-election in 1948, having joined the Labour Party in 1945. Educated at Cheltenham and Oxford, he practised as a barrister in London and on the North-Eastern Circuit, but after a breakdown in health he left law for farming. He is aged 43, and is the brother of Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu, the member for East Huddersfield.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
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
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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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Berwick-upon-Tweed
CANDIDATE : Carr
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Sir A. Comyns Carr, K.C., who was M.P. for East Islington, 1923-24, was British prosecutor at the Tokyo war guilt trials and recently prosecuted von Manstein. Born in 1882 and educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, he was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1908, and took silk in 1924. He is part author of books on national insurance, mining legislation, and world currency.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Mansfield
CANDIDATE : Robinson
PARTY : L.
ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. C. H. P. Robinson, born in Bradford, is 41 and lives at Mansfield. A chemist, he is chief pharmacist to Mansfield Hospital. He is secretary and former chairman of the local Liberal Association. At one time he was an amateur boxer.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Oswestry
CANDIDATE : Ormsby-Gore
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Mr. W. D. Ormsby-Gore, son and heir of Lord Harlech, aged 31, was educated at Eton and Oxford. A few years ago his father announced that he had handed over to his heir ownership of all his lands. Mr. Ormsby-Gore farms 400 acres at his Woodhill Estate, Oswestry. In the war he served in the “Phantom” reconnaissance unit and worked with airborne and other special units.
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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.
CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wells
CANDIDATE : Boles
PARTY : C
ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP
BIOGRAPHY :
Lt.-Col. D. C. Boles became member for Wells in 1939, when he was returned unopposed. Born in 1885 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he served with the 17th Lancers throughout the 1914-18 war and afterwards commanded the Royal Horse Guards. While at Eton he scored 183 in the Eton-Harrow cricket match in 1904.
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