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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worcester Constituency – Biography of Ward

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worcester Constituency – Biography of Ward

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Worcester

    CANDIDATE : Ward

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. R. Ward, who represented Worcester in the last Parliament, retaining the seat in 1945 with a majority of four votes, is aged 42, and brother of the Earl of Dudley. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and joined the Royal Air Force when he was 21, serving for 15 years. During the first three years of the war he was actively engaged in operational flights as a pilot, and then as a lecturer at an R.A.F. staff college.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedfordshire South Constituency – Biography of Moeran

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedfordshire South Constituency – Biography of Moeran

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bedfordshire South

    CANDIDATE : Moeran

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. W. Moeran is a solicitor and a local man who has twice stood as a Common Wealth candidate. He was educated at Christ’s College, Finchley, and London University, and is a member of the Haldane Society and of the Atomic Scientists’ Association. He is 40.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aylesbury Constituency – Biography of Summers

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Aylesbury Constituency – Biography of Summers

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Aylesbury

    CANDIDATE : Summers

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Spencer Summers, who lost his seat at Northampton in 1945, is an iron and steel manufacturer, and vice-president of the British Iron and Steel Federation, 1939. In the war he was Director-General of Regional Organization in the Ministry of Supply, and in the ” caretaker ” Government was Secretary for Overseas Trade. Aged 47, he was educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cheadle Constituency – Biography of Shepherd

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Cheadle Constituency – Biography of Shepherd

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Cheadle

    CANDIDATE : Shepherd

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. S. Shepherd was born in 1912 and educated at Crewe, in Chesh?re. He is a writer on social, industrial and political subjects, and is a manufacturing chemist as well as a director of a film company and transport and catering businesses. For the past four years he has been hon. secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Committee on Trade and Industry.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Northwich Constituency – Biography of Leak

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Northwich Constituency – Biography of Leak

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Northwich

    CANDIDATE : Leak

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Dr. W. N. Leak is 57 and a medical practitioner at Winsford (Cheshire). He was educated at Berkhamsted School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a captain in the R.A.M.C. in the 1914-18 war, serving with Lord Allenby in Palestine. A member of Cheshire County Council since 1936, he served on the Mid-Cheshire Education Executive.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Falmouth and Camborne Constituency – Biography of Sharpe

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Falmouth and Camborne Constituency – Biography of Sharpe

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Falmouth and Camborne

    CANDIDATE : Sharpe

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. G. Sharpe, K.C., was called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 1921, and took silk in 1948. After service in The Scottish Border Regiment in the 1914-18 war, he went to Cambridge, where he was president of the Union in 1921, and has been Recorder of King’s Lynn since 1943. He is a member of the Liberal Party Council and a governor of Guy’s Hospital.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Workington Constituency – Biography of Fox

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Workington Constituency – Biography of Fox

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Workington

    CANDIDATE : Fox

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. F. M. C. Fox is the wife of Cmdr. Fox, R.N. (retired) and was born in 1890 at Liverpool of American parents. She was at Oxford University and has been a housewife for 30 years. Until November, 1949, she was chairman of the Cumberland Federation of Women’s Institutes, and for 20 years was chairman of the institute at Portinscale, Keswick. She is a member of Cockermouth Rural District Council and a governor of Keswick High School.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derbyshire South East Constituency – Biography of Jennings

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derbyshire South East Constituency – Biography of Jennings

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Derbyshire South East

    CANDIDATE : Jennings

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. C. Jennings, a Durham man, born in 1903, trained to be a teacher at Bede College, and later studied economics and social history at King’s College, Durham. For eight years he was a member of the Seaham urban district council. In 1941 he was granted a commission in the Royal Marines, but the authorities refused to release him from his teaching duties.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tiverton Constituency – Biography of Blackburn

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tiverton Constituency – Biography of Blackburn

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tiverton

    CANDIDATE : Blackburn

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. C. H. Blackburn, who had contested East Islington in 1935 and Tiyerton in the last election, is the founder and director of a firm of electrical appliances engineers and director of a wholesale distributing business in London. He has served on the executive of the Home Counties Liberal Federation and on the council of the Liberal Party organization. From 1939 to 1945 he served with the R.A.O.C. and was on the H.Q. staff of the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division (T.A.).

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset West Constituency – Biography of Cameron

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset West Constituency – Biography of Cameron

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorset West

    CANDIDATE : Cameron

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. Cameron was a fruit farmer in North Dorset before the war, but since the war he has been a schoolmaster at Shaftesbury. At the outbreak of the war he organized and trained Blandford rural fire service, and then he joined the R.A.F. and became a navigator in Transport Command.

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