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 : Stockton-on-Tees

CANDIDATE : Chetwynd

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. R. Chetwynd won Stockton for the Labour Party in 1945, defeating Mr. Harold Macmillan. A miner’s son, he was born in 1916 and won scholarships to a grammar school and King’s College, London University. He became a captain in the Army Education Corps during the war, and in Parliament has been private secretary to Mr. Dalton, when the latter was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

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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 : Sunderland South

CANDIDATE : Ewart

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Ewart, elected as one of the two Sunderland members in 1945, was for eight years organizer of the General and Municipal Workers’ Union in South Shields, and became organizer for the Tees-side area in 1945. He is a former chairman of the Cleveland division Labour Party, and has served on the South Shields Town Council and the North Riding County Council. He was born in 1904.

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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 : Tottenham

CANDIDATE : Cross

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Cross, aged 34, was born in Islington, and is a dispatch manager in the book trade. During the war he served with the Cambridgeshire Regiment, and was taken prisoner at Singapore. For three and a half years he was on forced labour on the ” railway of death” in Siam. He has been branch secretary and branch chairman in Tottenham, of the Communist 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 : Walsall

CANDIDATE : Wells

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. T. Wells, a barrister, was born in 1908, and educated at Lancing College and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the Labour Party in 1930, and is a member of the Fabian Society and of the Society of Labour Lawyers. As a major in the Army from 1940 and 1945, he was engaged on work for the War Office, and is an authority on international law.

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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 : Wednesbury

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. N. Evans, born in 1898, started work with a Birmingham firm of chartered accountants, but after returning from four years’ service in the 1914-18 war he established a moulding sand business. From 1939 to 1945 he was a road transport organizer and became M.P. for the division in the latter year. He is chairman of a publishing society.

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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 : West Ham South

CANDIDATE : Young

PARTY : L

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. G. Young was born in 1913 at Pembroke, South Wales. He is a public relations consultant and has been director of publicity for the National Playing Fields Association, and P.R.O. of an organization to provide residential clubs for young men. He was a founder member of the Institute of Public Relations.

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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 : Wimbledon

CANDIDATE : Deacon

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. L. Deacon, born in 1893, was a student of commerce at Reading University. He is a company secretary and director, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries. He is a former hon. secretary of Ilford Trades Council, and was chairman of Caver-sham Labour Party for seven years. He is on the Surrey County Council, and a member of the Clerical and Administrative Workers’ Union.

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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 : Worcester

CANDIDATE : Evans

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Evans is a school teacher. When he left school at 14 he worked in one of the anthracite mines in South Wales. After four years of soldiering he returned to his former occupation, and then gained admission to a training college where he qualified as a school teacher. He has been associated with the administration of the Co-operative Society for many years. He is a former president of the Llanelly Divisional Labour Party. He lives in Carmarthenshire.

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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 : Bedfordshire South

CANDIDATE : Fearnley-Whittingstall

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. A. Fearnley-Whittingstall, K.C., is Recorder of Grantham and deputy chairman of Bedfordshire quarter sessions. When only 26 he contested Seaham against Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in the 1929 election. He£corn-manded the 18th Indian L.A.A. Regiment in the last war and was mentioned in dispatches.

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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 : Aylesbury

CANDIDATE : Harman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. S. Harman farms 440 acres in the division. He is 37, and is 6ft. 6in. tall. He read agriculture at Cambridge, and is a pioneer in the use of the two-shift system of milking. He is a member of the county A.E.C., chairman of the British Socialist Agricultural Society, and a past chairman of Chesham N.F.U. and of Aylesbury Labour Party.

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