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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hereford Constituency – Biography of Thomas

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hereford Constituency – Biography of Thomas

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hereford

    CANDIDATE : Thomas

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. P. L. Thomas, vice-chairman of the Conservative Party, has represented Hereford since 1931. He was a member of the secretariat of Mr. Stanley Baldwin when Leader of the Opposition. For two years he was Financial Secretary to the Admiralty in the war-time Government, and a leading spokesman for the Opposition on naval questions in the last Parliament. Born in 1903, he was educated at Rugby and Oriel College, Oxford.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hitchin Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hitchin Constituency – Biography of Jones

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hitchin

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. Asterley Jones is a solicitor who practised in Watford and St. Albans before being elected in 1945 as Hitchin’s first Labour M.P. Born in 1914, he was educated at Tonbridge and London University, and was elected to St. Albans City Council at 26. He has been secretary of St. Albans Labour Party and Herts Labour Federation.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Canterbury Constituency – Biography of Jupp

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Canterbury Constituency – Biography of Jupp

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Canterbury

    CANDIDATE : Jupp

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. K. G. Jupp, born in 1917, is a barrister practising on the South-Eastern Circuit and a lecturer on economics. At Oxford he was a classical scholar of University College and captain of the boats. He served with the Royal Artillery in France (where he escaped from Dunkirk), and in North Africa and Italy, being wounded at Anzio.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gravesend Constituency – Biography of Ayliffe

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gravesend Constituency – Biography of Ayliffe

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gravesend

    CANDIDATE : Ayliffe

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. M. Ayliffe, aged 50 and wife of a cost accountant, has done much voluntary welfare work locally and is a former unit commander of the W.J.A.C., and a member of the Liberal International and of the United Nations Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tonbridge Constituency – Biography of Lyburn

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tonbridge Constituency – Biography of Lyburn

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tonbridge

    CANDIDATE : Lyburn

    PARTY : Ind. C.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Dr. E. F. St. J. Lyburn stood as an Independent candidate in the constituency in 1945, but forfeited his deposit. Born in 1904 and educated in Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin, he came to this country in 19?9, and held several hospital appointments. He founded a spa clinic at Tunbridge Wells.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huyton Constituency – Biography of Wilson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huyton Constituency – Biography of Wilson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huyton

    CANDIDATE : Wilson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Harold Wilson became M.P. for Orms-kirk in 1945 and President of the Board of Trade in 1947. Previously he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works and Secretary for Overseas Trade. At Oxford he won first-class honours in economics and became a research fellow. He was at one time a lecturer in economics at New College, and was an economic assistant in the War Cabinet secretariat, 1940-41.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newton Constituency – Biography of Lewis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newton Constituency – Biography of Lewis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newton

    CANDIDATE : Lewis

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. K. Lewis was public relations officer to County of London Electric Supply Company until nationalization, when he resigned rather than serve with the State concern, and started his own publicity business. He contested this seat in 1945. He was educated at Jarrow High School and Edinburgh University, and was formerly labour and personnel manager of a shipbuilding firm.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harborough Constituency – Biography of Baldock

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harborough Constituency – Biography of Baldock

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Harborough

    CANDIDATE : Baldock

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. M. Baldock, who has a variety of business interests, was born in 1915 and went to Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained an agricultural diploma, and to the German University at Freiburg. He is a lieutenant-commander in the R.N.V.R. and has travelled extensively. Since the war he has broadcast to Germany on the B.B.C. European service.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rutland and Stamford Constituency – Biography of Bradley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Rutland and Stamford Constituency – Biography of Bradley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Rutland and Stamford

    CANDIDATE : Bradley

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. G. Bradley, a railway clerk at Oundle, is 24. Son of a painter and decorator at Kettering, he went to a central school, and during the war served in a mine. He was secretary of the local Labour Party when he was 19, and has been chairman of the Kettering Trades Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Uxbridge Constituency – Biography of Beswick

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Uxbridge Constituency – Biography of Beswick

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Uxbridge

    CANDIDATE : Beswick

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Beswick, who won Uxbridge in 1945, is the son of a Nottinghamshire miner. He fought his first election at the age of 22 as Labour candidate for a seat on the London County Council. He has travelled extensively in Europe and visited Spain during the civil war. During the war he served in the R.A.F. He was one of the two M.P.s who witnessed the atom bomb explosion at Bikini.

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