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 : Norfolk South

CANDIDATE : Bryant

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Q. Bryant, aged 52, and a garage proprietor, comes of an old East Anglian farming family. He started his business career in London, and went to Diss, Norfolk, two years ago. He lost a leg in the first world war fighting with the Norfolk Regiment, but he served again in the last war in the R.A.F. Flying Control Section.

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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 : Northamptonshire South

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. Evans, a patent agent, is 41 and was educated at Mill Hill and Clare College, Cambridge. He takes an active part in the work of t?e Society of Friends, and served as chief engineer with the Friends’ Ambulance Unit in China and Burma in the war, and saw the great famine in Bengal.

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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 : Carlton

CANDIDATE : Pickthorn

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn, who was born in 1892, was elected for Cambridge University at a by-election in 1935 and was returned in 1945. Educated at Aldenham and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained firsts in the History Tripos, he is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and a lecturer in history. During the 1914-18 war he served in the London Regiment and the R.A.F. in France and Macedonia. He was vice-chairman of the Conservative Party foreign affairs committee, and the author of several historical works.

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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 : Henley

CANDIDATE : Hay

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Hay is a solicitor practising in Brighton and London. Born in 1919 and educated at Brighton Grammar School, he has been an office holder in the Junior Imperial League and the Young Conservatives, and was the national chairman of that body from 1947 to 1949. During the war he was lieutenant in the R.N.V.R., receiving promotion after 10 months’ 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 : Somerset North

CANDIDATE : Field

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. Xenia Field, a journalist and playwright, was born in 1894, and educated at Ascot and in Paris. She studied economics, was a member of the L.C.C. from 1946 to last year, and is a member of the London executive council under the National Health Scheme. During the war she served at the Ministry of Supply, and has served on a Home Office advisory committee on the treatment of offenders.

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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 : Brierley Hill

CANDIDATE : Hanley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. P. Hanley, aged 33, is the first Liberal candidate in the area for over 20 years. He is a sheet-metal worker employed in a motor-car factory. He served five years in the R.A.F.

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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 : Eye

CANDIDATE : Harrison

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. J. H. Harrison was born in 1907 and has been connected with local and national politics for 20 years. He is associated with an Ipswich publishing firm, and has been a member of the town council. During the war he commanded a battalion of The Suffolk Regiment and was taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore.

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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 : Dorking

CANDIDATE : Richard

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. D. Richard was born in 1917, and educated at Roborough School, Eastbourne, in which town he lives and of which his father was mayor. He is director and general manager of a circuit of Sussex cinemas. Commissioned in the Territorial Army in 1937, he served throughout the last war, and was in Burma as a major in the Indian Army.

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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 : Guildford

CANDIDATE : Philpott

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. H. Philpott, born in 1897, is a prhate tutor and holds the M.A. degree in engineering from Pembroke College, Oxford. His first teaching appointment was at Dover College, and after setting up a private preparatory school be took up private teaching. Fie has been associated with the Liberals all his life. In the 1914-18 war he served in the R.N.A.S.

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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 : Arundel and Shoreham

CANDIDATE : Cuthbert

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. N. Cuthbert, mayor of Bexhill, 1936-42, was elected for Rye in 1945. He is 60, was trained in banking in Scotland and London and held executive posts with the Imperial Bank of Persia for 21 years. After serving in the Army 1914-19, he was elected to Bexhill Council, and in 1943 was given the freedom of the borough. He resigned his county council seat on election to Parliament.

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