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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wokingham Constituency – Biography of Remnant

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wokingham Constituency – Biography of Remnant

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wokingham

    CANDIDATE : Remnant

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. Remnant is a son of the late Lord Remnant, who for 28 years was M.P. for Hoi- §§§ born. He is well known in the county and has practical experience as a farmer. He was born in 1897 and was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He served in both wars, in the second as senior staff officer to the G.O.C. Canal Area, Egypt.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cambridgeshire Constituency – Biography of Howard

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cambridgeshire Constituency – Biography of Howard

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cambridgeshire

    CANDIDATE : Howard

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. G. Howard, born in 1896Jand educated at Harrow and Oxford, served as a flying officer in the 1914-18 war and later was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn. He was appointed Recorder of Bury St. Edmunds in 1943 and of Ipswich in 1947, and was a senior counsel to the Treasury. Appointed High Sheriff of the county in 1945 and chairman of the county quarter sessions in 1947, he farms in Cambridgeshire.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Macclesfield Constituency – Biography of Doncaster

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Macclesfield Constituency – Biography of Doncaster

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Macclesfield

    CANDIDATE : Doncaster

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. F. Doncaster, born in London in 1894jwas an infantry officer in the 1914-18 war and won the M.C. For 10 years he ran agricultural schemes in various parts of Europe. He entered the publishing business in 1929, and is a director of a firm publishing technical journals and of an advertising agency. He is president of Macclesfield Liberal Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bodmin Constituency – Biography of Royle

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bodmin Constituency – Biography of Royle

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bodmin

    CANDIDATE : Royle

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. Royle, a horticulturist, born in 1921, is a member of Kingsbridge (Devon) Rural Council. He was a Labour agent in Plymouth in 1945, and is a member of the National Farmers’ Union and of the National Union of Agricultural Workers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Whitehaven Constituency – Biography of Anderson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Whitehaven Constituency – Biography of Anderson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Whitehaven

    CANDIDATE : Anderson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Anderson entered Parliament in 1935 for Whitehaven. He entered the railway service at the age of 17 and was an active member of the Railway Clerks’ Association. He I is a former chairman of the Manchester and District Council of the N.U.R. He took a prominent part in the ‘ early work of the Cumberland Development Council, and is a director of several industrial enterprises introduced into the area.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derbyshire North East Constituency – Biography of White

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derbyshire North East Constituency – Biography of White

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Derbyshire North East

    CANDIDATE : White

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. White became member for the division in 1942 at an unopposed by-election. Now in the late fifties, he worked in the mines and has been for many years an official of the Derbyshire Miners’ Association. He is now Vice-president. He is a founder member of the North-East Derbyshire Labour Party, and before his election was agent to the former M.P.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tavistock Constituency – Biography of Wyatt

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tavistock Constituency – Biography of Wyatt

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tavistock

    CANDIDATE : Wyatt

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Col. H. D. Wyatt was educated at Marlborough and Dieppe Lycee, and entered the Army in 1914. Flis successive staff appointments included a liaison mission to the French Army, 1931-32. In the last war he was a staff officer at divisional H.Q., Malaya; with the 8th Armoured Division ; A.A.G., H.Q., 12th Corps ; colonel on the staff of Intelligence Division, War Office ; commander of North Hants District; and commander of Polish Group, S.W. Scotland. He retired in 1947.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset South Constituency – Biography of Rawson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset South Constituency – Biography of Rawson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorset South

    CANDIDATE : Rawson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. T. R. Rawson, a Dorset school master, claims a strong Liberal ancestry. One of his forbears was guillotined as a Girondin in the French Revolution, and his grandfather was Gladstone’s private secretary. Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was studying in Germany on the outbreak of the 1914-18 war and was interned as a civilian prisoner. He began teaching, which he continued in the United States, after the war. Back in England, he was for seven years secretary of the New Education Fellowship. He is now master of studies at a girls’ public school in Dorset. Mr. Rawson is a member of the Dorset Liberal Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Easington Constituency – Biography of Shinwell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Easington Constituency – Biography of Shinwell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Easington

    CANDIDATE : Shinwell

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Shinwell has?represented the Seaham division, now mostly included in Easington, since 1935, when he defeated Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. He had previously represented Linlithgow for two periods. He was Financial Secretary to the War Office in 1929-30, and Secretary for Mines in 1924 and again in 1930-31. As Minister of Fuel and Power at the beginning of the last Parliament he piloted the Bill nationalizing the coal mines through the Commons, and in 1947 he was appointed Secretary of State for War.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Billericay Constituency – Biography of Hayden

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Billericay Constituency – Biography of Hayden

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Billericay

    CANDIDATE : Hayden

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. Hayden, aged 48, and the son of an Essex blacksmith, has been a builder and contractor in the district for 25 years. He is chairman of the Laindon Chamber of Commerce and of the Laindon Residents Protection Association.

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