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 : Basingstoke

CANDIDATE : Clark

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. M. Clark was educated at Croydon High School for Girls, studied music, and took her L.R.A.M. After a period as a farmer on the Dorset and Devon border she joined the Women’s Timber Corps in 1941 and became forewoman at a Ministry of Supply mills. She is an enthusiastic gardener and horsewoman.

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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 : Barnet

CANDIDATE : Taylor

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Dr. S. J. L. Taylor won the new division in 1945, and has been Mr. Herbert Morrison’s Parliamentary private secretary. A well-known sociologist and psychiatrist, he was the wartime head of the Ministry of Information’s home intelligence department and director of the war-time social survey. He is 39, was educated at Stowe, and studied at St. Thomas’s Hospital and London University.

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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 : Hertfordshire South West

CANDIDATE : Middleton

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. C. Middleton, a London stockbroker, aged 54, is vice-chairman of St. Albans Liberal Association. Since the age of 17 he has been a Methodist lay preacher.

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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 : Dover

CANDIDATE : Goldstone

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. E. Goldstone contested the Peters-field division of Hampshire unsuccessfully in 1945. Born in 1909, he is a seaside hotel proprietor, served with the R.A.F. during the war, and is chairman of the East Kent and Isle of Thanet Liberal Associations.

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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 : Orpington

CANDIDATE : Smithers

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Waldron Smithers, born in 1880, has represented Chisle-hurst (and later Orpington) for 25 years. Since 1900 he has been organist at Knockholt parish church, and he was in former years a prominent cricketer. He is a non-practising member of the Stock Exchange, and a governor of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.

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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 : Darwen

CANDIDATE : Prescott

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Stanley Prescott won Darwen at a by-election in 1943, when he had a majority of 70, and held it in 1945. A member of the Parliamentary Mission to Japan in 1947, he warned the cotton trade on his return of the danger of Japanese competition. Aged 38, and educated at Cambridge, he practised at the Bar until 1939, then served in the war, and has since directed a factory in London.

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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 : Lancaster

CANDIDATE : Farrer

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. E. V. A. Farrer unsuccessfully contested this seat in 1945. Aged 53, and works manager for a London engineering firm, he has been prominent in left-wing politics for more than 30 years. He founded the Padding-ton branch of the I.L.P., but later became secretary of the Paddington Trades Council and Labour Party.

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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 : South Fylde

CANDIDATE : O’Hara

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Capt. J. B. O’Hara, aged 33, clothing factory manager, was educated at Bolton Grammar School, of which he is now chairman of the governors. He has served the local Labour Party in many capacities and has been a member of the town council for four years. He served in the R.A.S.C. in the war and was discharged with the honorary rank of captain.

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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 : Melton

CANDIDATE : Crawford

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. Crawford, a farmer in the county and ex-member of the county council, fought the seat in 1945. He is on the county agricultural executive committee, was chairman of the farmers’ union in 1925, and is an hon. member of the Union of Agricultural Workers. He has been chairman without salary for 20 years of Melton Farmers’ Co-operative Society, which has an annual turnover of £4m.

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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 : Gainsborough

CANDIDATE : Spence

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. I. Spence, K.C., a barrister, aged 47 and 6ft. 7in. tall, was in the last great diamond rush in South Africa, and afterwards worked a passage to Canada as a cabin steward and hitch-hiked across the Dominion. He served on Air Marshal Cqnyngham’s staff in the Western Desert during the war, and after demobilization took silk. He practises in London.

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