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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leominster Constituency – Biography of Baldwin

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leominster Constituency – Biography of Baldwin

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leominster

    CANDIDATE : Baldwin

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. E. Baldwin, farmer and stockbreeder, was born in a log cabin in Tennessee, his parents having emigrated at the end of the last ?entury. When his father returned to this country he sent his son to Lucton School. He served in the R.H.A. and won the M.C. in the 1914-18 war. Born in 1894, he is also a member of a firm of auctioneers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Albans Constituency – Biography of Dumpleton

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Albans Constituency – Biography of Dumpleton

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : St Albans

    CANDIDATE : Dumpleton

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. W. Dumpleton, born at Luton, 1897, was mayor of St. Albans, 1943 and 1944, and was manager of a printing and publishing business before being elected in 1945. He is chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party housing and town planning group, member of the local government advisory panel to the Colonial Office and of the Colonial Economic and Development Council, and honorary secretary of the Parliamentary Socialist Christian group.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chislehurst Constituency – Biography of Hughes

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chislehurst Constituency – Biography of Hughes

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chislehurst

    CANDIDATE : Hughes

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. Hughes, aged 29, is a student of economics and a journalist. He served in ths Far East with The Seaforth Highlanders and on demobilization took a business appointment in India, but returned to England as a volunteer for coal-mining work.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Isle of Thanet Constituency – Biography of Wrong

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Isle of Thanet Constituency – Biography of Wrong

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Isle of Thanet

    CANDIDATE : Wrong

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. J. Wrong is aged 32 and a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, stationed at Chatham as education officer. He previously served in the R.A.F. and in the Colonial Office.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chorley Constituency – Biography of Adams

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chorley Constituency – Biography of Adams

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chorley

    CANDIDATE : Adams

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss F. Adams, a personnel manager in a Nottingham firm, was during the war female labour officer at Chorley royal ordnance factory. In 1948 she was made Ministry of Supply regional labour manager for the northwest. Aged 45, and educated at St. Edmund’s College and the University of Liverpool, she was for some years a voluntary social worker in the slums of Liverpool.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huyton Constituency – Biography of McGree

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Huyton Constituency – Biography of McGree

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Huyton

    CANDIDATE : McGree

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. McGree, a joiner, is president of the north-west region of the National Federation of Building Trade Operatives and of the Mersey District Confederation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trade Unions. He is a member of the Communist Party national executive.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : North Fylde Constituency – Biography of Robinson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : North Fylde Constituency – Biography of Robinson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : North Fylde

    CANDIDATE : Robinson

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. W. Robinson, born in 1898, has many interests in the fishing industry. He was president of Fleetwood Fish Merchants’ Association for record period, 1940-47, and for two years chairman of the Federation of British Port Wholesale Fish Merchants’ Associations. He is also chairman of companies of trawler managers and wholesale fish merchants. He was educated at the Grammar School, Grimsby, and has served on Grimsby Town Council since 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harborough Constituency – Biography of Symington

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Harborough Constituency – Biography of Symington

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Harborough

    CANDIDATE : Symington

    PARTY : Ind.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. N. H. Symington, farmer and company director, aged 46, was educated at Rugby and King’s College, Cambridge. He has been a member of Market Harborough U.D.C. since 1946. Twelve years ago he crossed the Sahara Desert on a motor-cycle. In December, 1949, he published a seven-point policy, which included the abolition of P.A.Y.E.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brigg Constituency – Biography of Staniland

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Brigg Constituency – Biography of Staniland

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Brigg

    CANDIDATE : Staniland

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. M. F. Staniland, aged 35, is a native of Boston, where his father and grandfather were successively town clerk, and which his grandfather represented in Parliament as a Liberal M.P. Educated at Rugby and Cambridge, he served in the war with The Lincolnshire Regiment, being wounded in Italy and gaining the M.C. He is a director of a London publishing company, and the author of a satire on Socialism, ” Back to the Future.”

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk Central Constituency – Biography of Medlicott

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Norfolk Central Constituency – Biography of Medlicott

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Norfolk Central

    CANDIDATE : Medlicott

    PARTY : Nat. L. & C.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Brig. F. Medlicott was first elected to Parliament as member for East Norfolk in 1919 as a Liberal National. He was a Territorial lance-bombardier in the Royal Artillery when called up in 1939, and rose to become a Brigadier in 21st Army Group. He was born in 1903 in Taunton, and articled to a local solicitor. He now practises in London.

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