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 : Lewisham West

CANDIDATE : Skeffington

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. B. Skeffington, who was born in 1909 and educated at Streatham High School and London Universtiy, was unsuccessful in by-elections at Streatham and West Lewisham, but was elected in 1945. Before the war he was a lecturer, and during the war worked at the Board of Trade on the concentration of industry and afterwards at the Ministry of Supply as Assistant Director of Medical Supplies. In the last Parliament he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and a member of the Parliamentary delegation to East Africa.

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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 : St Marylebone

CANDIDATE : Guy

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Guy, born in 1919, a publisher, was for a time organizer of the United Nations Association and worked with the Liberal Party research department. A pilot in Coastal Command, he was a prisoner of war for 18 months.

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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 : Stepney

CANDIDATE : Maynard

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. H. Maynard is descended from French Huguenots who came to Stepney 400 years ago. He is in business as a maker of ships’ blocks, and became a member of the Stepney Borough Council in 1912.

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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 : Wandsworth Streatham

CANDIDATE : Benenson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Benenson, born in 1921, was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, and is a barrister on the South-Eastern Circuit. During the war he served in the Intelligence Corps. He has founded a number of ” poor persons’ lawyer ” centres, and runs one in Bethnal Green, where he lives and is an alderman on the borough council.

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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 : Acton

CANDIDATE : Papworth

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. F. Papworth is a bus conductor, ged 51. His foster-father was Mr. Tom Brooks, a workmate and close friend of Mr. John Burns, the Socialist pioneer. He was a founder of the Discharged Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Federation, which later merged into th? British Legion. He has been a member of the executive of the Transport and General Workers’ Union and of the T.U.C. General Council, and an official representative at International Labour Office conferences. He sits on various Government committees.

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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 : Bath

CANDIDATE : Pitman

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. J. Pitman, who became M.P. for the division in 1945, is a grandson of the late Sir Isaac Pitman, and chairman and joint managing director of the Pitman Press. He was a director of the Bank of England up to the time of its nationalization, and for two years previous to 1945, he was director of organization and methods at the Treasury. Born in 1901, and educated at Eton and Oxford, he excelled in athletics, gaining his blue at Oxford in rugby, playing for England against Scotland, and winning the Public Schools middle-weight boxing championship in 1919.

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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 : Bilston

CANDIDATE : Godrich

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Godrich, born in 1915, became works manager of a wire and steel firm in 1937, and in 1942 a director. In 1944 he set up as a consulting engineer in Birmingham. Has been active in ybuth club and church council work and is a licensed lay reader.

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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 : Birmingham Hall Green

CANDIDATE : Roy

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. L. Roy, born in Canada, and 37 years of age, was a sheet metal worker up to the age of 20, and then became an insurance agent. For several years he was an air raid warden in Birmingham, and afterwards joined the R.A.M.C. and served in West Africa.

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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 : Birmingham Small Heath

CANDIDATE : Longden

PARTY : Co-op, and Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Longden, who is a native of Ashton-under-Lyne, is aged 58. At Ruskin College he earned a diploma with distinction in economics and political science. He engaged in propaganda on behalf of the I.L.P. and the Co-operative movement. He was first returned to Parliament for the Deritend division in 1929, was defeated in 1931, and recaptured the seat from the Conservatives in 1945. He is an iron-moulder.

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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 : Blackburn West

CANDIDATE : Assheton

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Ralph Assheton, aged 49, comes from a family which has owned land in Lancashire and elsewhere since the Middle Ages. An ancestor, Sir John De Assheton, was summoned to Parliament in 1323. Mr. Assheton was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1925. He was elected for Rushcliffe in 1934, and in 1940 became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour. In 1942 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, and in 1943 Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Before the 1945 General Election, in which he lost his seat, he was appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party. He re-entered Parliament in 1945 for the City of London, a seat which has now been abolished.

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