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 : Newcastle upon Tyne West

CANDIDATE : Popplewell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Popplewell (50) was Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in the last Government. He captured West Newcastle from the Conserva-tiyes at the 1945 election with a majority of 8,131 in a straight fight. He was a signalman in the railway service and for 18 years was associated with local government. During the war he served with the Royal Marine Artillery and won the Belgian Croix de Guerre.

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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 : Nottingham East

CANDIDATE : Fletcher

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. A. B. Fletcher, born in 1911, contested Macclesfield unsuccessfully in 1945. At present an export manager in the textile industry and commanding a Leicestershire Territorial regiment, he served during the late war with the Royal Horse Artillery in the Middle East, Italy and Austria. He has been chairman of the National League of Young Liberals and president of the Lancashire and Cheshire Young Liberals.

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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 : Oldham West

CANDIDATE : Middleton

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. T. Middleton is 62 years of age and a native of Oldham. He has been a solicitor since 1914, and was educated at Oldham Grammar School, of which he is now deputy chairman. He has twice unsuccessfully contested Oldham, and was a member of the town council 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 : Poole

CANDIDATE : Ridgway

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Ridgway has served on the executive committee of the Home Counties Liberal Association. Aged 48, he is a chartered surveyor and valuer, and during the war he supervised war damage repairs in London and trained A.T.C. cadets for air crew duties.

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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 : Pudsey

CANDIDATE : Collings

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. G. Collings was sponsored by the Railway Clerks’ Association, of the executive of which he is a member. He is employed on the scientific staff of the London Passenger Transport Board, and has been on many negotiating committees in connexion with the railway service.

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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 : Romford

CANDIDATE : Lockwood

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. J. C. Lockwood was M.P. for Central Hackney, 1931-35. He was unsuccessful at a by-election at Bexley in 1946. He is a barrister. In the first world war he served with The Essex Regiment and the Coldstream Guards, and was legal adviser to Shaef in the second. He is treasurer of the R.S.P.C.A., and a member of the Diocesan Finance Committee and of the London-over-the-Border 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 : St Helens

CANDIDATE : Hall-Davis

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. G. F. Hall-Davis, head brewer and a director of a Burnley brewery, was born in Bolton in 1924. He served in the Royal Artillery during the last war. He has filled many offices in the Young Conservative movement, and was vice-chairman of its national committee from 1946 to 1948. He is area chairman of the committee for Lancashire, Cheshire and Westmorland, and has served on the executive of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations since 1946.

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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 : Sheffield Heeley

CANDIDATE : Roberts

PARTY : C. & L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. Peter Roberts was elected member for the Ecclesall division of Sheffield in 1945, following in the footsteps of his father, Sir Samuel Roberts, and his grandfather. He was born in 1912 and educated at Harrow and Cambridge. Called to the Bar in 1935, he practised until 1939, when he joined the Cold-stream Guards and served througho?t the war. Engaged in industry in the Sheffield district, he is interested in industrial problems, especially in the coal industry, and he has been joint secretary of the Con-servatiye Parliamentary Fuel and Power 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 : Southall

CANDIDATE : Purton

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. A. Purton was educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School and at Oxford and served six years in the Army, in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and gained the Military Cross. He is a teacher in Pinner County Grammar School.

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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 : Southport

CANDIDATE : Hudson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. S. Hudson, who has represented Southport since 1931—he was M.P. for Whitehaven, 1924-29 — held many Ministerial appointments and was Minister of Agriculture from 1940 to 1945. He was born in 1886, educated at Eton and Oxford, and entered the Diplomatic Service in 1911, resigning in 1923 to enter politics. Keenly interested in farming, he is a member of the council of the Royal Agricultural Society.

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