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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Ham South Constituency – Biography of Jones

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Ham South 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 : West Ham South

    CANDIDATE : Jones

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Elwyn Jones, Parliamentary private secretary to the Attorney-General in the last Parliament is a barrister. Born on October 24, 1909, he was at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Gon-ville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil. He was assistant British prosecutor at Nuremberg war trials and at the Hamburg trial of Marshal von Manstein. He has been M.P. for Plaistow since 1945.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton North East Constituency – Biography of Baird

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wolverhampton North East Constituency – Biography of Baird

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wolverhampton North East

    CANDIDATE : Baird

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Baird won East Wolverhampton from the Liberals in 1945. Soil of a miner, he is a dental surgeon, having studied at Glasgow University and St. Mungo’s Medical College. During the 1939-45 war he served with the Army Dental Corps, in which he was a captain. Born in 1906, he joined the Labour Party in 1930, and for many years has been active in local government work.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worthing Constituency – Biography of Home

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Worthing Constituency – Biography of Home

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Worthing

    CANDIDATE : Home

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. Horne, an outfitter at Haywards Heath, is 51. He makes a hobby of mechanics and has several inventions to his credit including an electro-magnetic motor-car lock.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Abingdon Constituency – Biography of Glyn

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Abingdon Constituency – Biography of Glyn

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Abingdon

    CANDIDATE : Glyn

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Ralph Glyn has sat continuously for Abingdon since 1924. During the National Government of 1931 he was joint Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Ramsay Mac-Donald. He was created a baronet in 1934. Born in 1886, he joined The Rifle Brigade in 1904 after being educated at Harrow and Sandhurst. He contested two by-elections in 1910, and was returned for Clackmannan and E. Stirling in 1918, serving for four years.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Buckingham Constituency – Biography of Crawley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Buckingham Constituency – Biography of Crawley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Buckingham

    CANDIDATE : Crawley

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Aidan Crawley, who won the first Labour victory in the division in 1945, was formerly a journalist and producer of educational films, and is married to Virginia Cowles, the American authoress. He was for a time Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and was a delegate to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg. Born in 1908, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, and has played cricket for Harrow, Oxford University and Kent.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chester Constituency – Biography of Nield

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Chester Constituency – Biography of Nield

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Chester

    CANDIDATE : Nield

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. B. Nield, K.C., entered Parliament for Chester in 1940 at a by-election. He graduated from Oxford, was called to the Bar in 1925 and took silk after 1 the war, in which he served with the Judge Advocate’s Department at home and in the Middle East. Born in 1903, Mr. Nield is a bachelor.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Runcorn Constituency – Biography of Griffiths

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Runcorn Constituency – Biography of Griffiths

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Runcorn

    CANDIDATE : Griffiths

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Griffiths, who is 42, is in the corn milling and road transport business. A member of the Market Drayton Urban Council, he also serves on the Shropshire County Council. He comes from a farming family and has had close experience of the agricultural industry.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Ives Constituency – Biography of Howard

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Ives Constituency – Biography of Howard

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : St Ives

    CANDIDATE : Howard

    PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Greville R. Howard is a member of Westminster City Council and was mayor in 1947. Forty years of age, he was educated at Eton and Sandhurst and was commissioned in The Somerset Light Infantry. He relinquished his commission in order to go into business and take up local government work. Before the last war he joined the R.N.V.R. and served through the war in command of destroyers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Belper Constituency – Biography of Lawrie

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Belper Constituency – Biography of Lawrie

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Belper

    CANDIDATE : Lawrie

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. P. Lawrie, aged 47, director and editor of a technical journal, was trained as an industrial chemist and worked in the coal and sugar industries. He was commissioned in a Territorial Anti-Aircraft Regiment before the war, and during the war he commanded a Home Guard anti-aircraft unit in Hyde Park, and was senior censor of scientific publications at the Ministry of Information.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derbyshire West Constituency – Biography of Strange

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Derbyshire West Constituency – Biography of Strange

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Derbyshire West

    CANDIDATE : Strange

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. F. Strange, a solicitor, who was born in 1886, is president of the High Peak Liberal Association and of the Buxton Liberal Association. He served as a private with the West Yorks Regiment in the first world war until invalided out at the end of 1915. He played golf regularly for Derbyshire before the 1939-45 war.

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