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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Coventry North Constituency – Biography of Dalley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Coventry North Constituency – Biography of Dalley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Coventry North

    CANDIDATE : Dalley

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Dalley, born in 1908, is chairman of a Kidderminster firm of seed merchants and fertilizer manufacturers. Keenly interested in the relations of employer and employee, his firm started early a profit-sharing scheme. He has served on the Worcestershire County Council and on the county executive of the National Farmers’ Union.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Croydon West Constituency – Biography of Mayne

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Croydon West Constituency – Biography of Mayne

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Croydon West

    CANDIDATE : Mayne

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. R. Mayne previously contested unsuccessfully Plymouth and Twickenham. A 49-year-old bachelor, he is a departmental manager in a Middlesex firm of estate agents.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derby South Constituency – Biography of Grimes

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derby South Constituency – Biography of Grimes

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Derby South

    CANDIDATE : Grimes

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Cmdr. R. C. D. Grimes was educated at Derby School and went to sea as a midshipman towards the end of the first war. He retired from the Navy in 1945 after 25 years’ service, which included two commissions in China and one in New Zealand. He was on convoy service in the last war. He is managing director of a family drapery business, and a member of Derby Town Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ealing South Constituency – Biography of Maude

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ealing South Constituency – Biography of Maude

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ealing South

    CANDIDATE : Maude

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. E. U. Maude, a financial journalist, was educated at Rugby and Oxford, and has been secretary of the University Conservative Association and on the committee of the Oxford Union. He served throughout the war in the R.A.S.C, and was a prisoner of war for 3J years. Since 1946 he has been a senior member of the P.E.P. research staff. He is a free lance writer on social and economic questions.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edmonton Constituency – Biography of Thornton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edmonton Constituency – Biography of Thornton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edmonton

    CANDIDATE : Thornton

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. A. Thornton (36) learned his politics in the Army. While acting as education officer for his battery, he was asked to arrange a mock election to arouse interest among the men for the 1945 General Election. In studying the policies of all parties, he concluded he was a Liberal. A school teacher, Mr. Thornton is an officer in the Army Cadet Force.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gateshead East Constituency – Biography of Moody

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gateshead East Constituency – Biography of Moody

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gateshead East

    CANDIDATE : Moody

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. S. Moody, who in the last Parliament was member for the Fairfield division of Liverpool, which has rtow disappeared, was born at Hull in 1891, is a joiner, and since 1942 has been a member of the National Executive of the Labour Party. He has been connected with the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers for over 30 years.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Halifax Constituency – Biography of Lucas

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Halifax Constituency – Biography of Lucas

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Halifax

    CANDIDATE : Lucas

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. H. Lucas, born in Halifax in 1896, went to sea at the age of 20 and gained his second mate’s certificate. Returning to the town some years later, he took over a manufacturing concern and has also been interested in theatrical ventures. In the Royal Navy in the last war he saw service in northern waters. He was mayor of the borough in 1946-47.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hastings Constituency – Biography of Cooper-Key

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hastings Constituency – Biography of Cooper-Key

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hastings

    CANDIDATE : Cooper-Key

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. McN. Cooper-Key, aged 42, has represented Hastings since 1945. He is married to a daughter of the second Viscount Rothermere and is a director of Associated Newspapers, Limited. He was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and was commissioned in the Irish Guards. He was personal staff officer to the Chief of Staff in the North African campaign in 1943 and was Plans and Operations officer at General Eisenhower’s headquarters from 1943 to D Day.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Heston and Isleworth Constituency – Biography of Overell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Heston and Isleworth Constituency – Biography of Overell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Heston and Isleworth

    CANDIDATE : Overell

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. K. Overell, born in 1895 and a tutor holding a degree in economics from London University, spent six years in Japan attached to the Edu?ation department of the old Japanese Imperial Government. He is a specialist and lecturer in judo.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ilford North Constituency – Biography of Ridealgh

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Ilford North Constituency – Biography of Ridealgh

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Ilford North

    CANDIDATE : Ridealgh

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. M. Ridealgh, who won Ilford North in the 1945 election, is the wife of an engineer and a former president of the Women’s Cooperative Guild. Specially interested in housing she has described the plight of Ilford in this respect as the ” worst in the country.” She was born in 1898.

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