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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Blackley Constituency – Biography of Diamond

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Blackley Constituency – Biography of Diamond

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Blackley

    CANDIDATE : Diamond

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Diamond is 42, and a London accountant. Born in Leeds and educated at Leeds Grammar School, he won Blackley from the Conservatives in 1945. Formerly Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Works, he was appointed to the Speaker’s panel of chairmen, and presided over the Standing Committees which dealt with the Gas Bill and Licensing Bill. He went to Burma with the Parliamentary delegation recently.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Gorton Constituency – Biography of Abbott

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Manchester Gorton Constituency – Biography of Abbott

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Gorton

    CANDIDATE : Abbott

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. Abbott, secretary of Lancashire and Ches?ire Communist Party for five years, worked as a skilled engineer in cotton mills and engineering shops. A member of the A.E.U. for 17 years, he has been a member of the national executive of the Communist Party since 1942.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Middlesbrough East Constituency – Biography of Thomas

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Middlesbrough East Constituency – Biography of Thomas

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Middlesbrough East

    CANDIDATE : Thomas

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Dr. W. S. Russell Thomas was born in 1896 and educated at Christ’s College, Brecon, and Queens’ College, Cambridge. He qualified both as physician and surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, and was later called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn. After fighting three different seats in 1931, 1935, and 1936, he was returned unopposed for Southampton as a Liberal National in 1940, but was defeated in 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle upon Tyne East Constituency – Biography of Williams

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle upon Tyne East Constituency – Biography of Williams

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newcastle upon Tyne East

    CANDIDATE : Williams

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. G. Williams, the youngest Conservative candidate in the Newcastle divisions, is 25. At Cambridge University he won a half-Blue, and was secretary of the University Conservative Association. In the war he served as a flight lieutenant and has retained his interest in aviation.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nottingham Central Constituency – Biography of Winterbottom

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Nottingham Central Constituency – Biography of Winterbottom

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nottingham Central

    CANDIDATE : Winterbottom

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. I. Winterbottom was special assistant to Lord Pakenham at the Ministry of Civil Aviation. Born in 1913 and educated at Charterhouse and Clare College, Cambridge, he has worked in a textile finishing undertaking in Manchester and Germany and was personal staff officer to the regional commissioner, Hamburg, in the Control Commission. He is a councillor for Thrapston and Oundle.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Oldham East Constituency – Biography of Fairhurst

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Oldham East Constituency – Biography of Fairhurst

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Oldham East

    CANDIDATE : Fairhurst

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Fairhurst, who is 57 years of age, entered Parliament in 1945 for Oldham. He started work in a cotton mill after leaving school at 15. He was president of the National Association of Power Loom Overlookers, a member of the Wigan Town Council, and president of the Wigan Textile Trades Federation.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Plymouth Sutton Constituency – Biography of Major

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Plymouth Sutton Constituency – Biography of Major

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Plymouth Sutton

    CANDIDATE : Major

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. K. H. B. Major, aged 30, of West Country stock, was educated in London and at the Sir John Cass Technical College, and is an industrial chemist and engineer, working as a consultant and in an advisory capacity for various business organizations. During the war he served in the Royal Air Force as a navigator and an airfield controller.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Preston North Constituency – Biography of Hemelryk

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Preston North Constituency – Biography of Hemelryk

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Preston North

    CANDIDATE : Hemelryk

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. J. Hemelryk, whose mother is a direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell, was born in 1889, and educated at Stonyhurst and Oxford. After serving in the first world war he was called to the Bar in 1917 and practised in Liverpool and Preston for many years. For the past four years he has been chairman of the Preston Liberal Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rochdale Constituency – Biography of Hale

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rochdale Constituency – Biography of Hale

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rochdale

    CANDIDATE : Hale

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Hale, aged 39, is prominent in political and trade union activities in Bolton, where he is a plastic mould maker and charge hand. He has served on the town council and is on the National Council of Labour Colleges. Between the two wars he was an engineer in the Mercantile Marine.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rowley Regis and Tipton Constituency – Biography of Yates

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rowley Regis and Tipton Constituency – Biography of Yates

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rowley Regis and Tipton

    CANDIDATE : Yates

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Yates, who is 31, was in the Army for six years during the war, and is now a railway clerk. In 1945, while serving abroad, he was selected to oppose Mr. Churchill at Woodford, but arrived home too late to be adopted.

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