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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Islington North Constituency – Biography of Burns

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Islington North Constituency – Biography of Burns

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Islington North

    CANDIDATE : Burns

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. E. Burns, a railway booking clerk, was previously in the Civil Service and secretary of a local branch of the Post Office Union. Born in 1921, he was educated at a technical school and won a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge, which he left to go into the Army.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lambeth Norwood Constituency – Biography of Chamberlain

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lambeth Norwood Constituency – Biography of Chamberlain

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lambeth Norwood

    CANDIDATE : Chamberlain

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Chamberlain unexpectedly defeated Mr. Duncan Sandys, Minister of Works and son-in-law of Mr. Churchill in the 1945 General Election. Mr. Chamberlain was born in Islington in 1901 and won scholarships to Cambridge University. For some years he was secretary of the National Federation of Housing Societies, and afterwards joined the Miners’ Welfare Commission and later the National Hostels’ Corporation. From 1945 to )948 he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paddington North Constituency – Biography of Field

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Paddington North Constituency – Biography of Field

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Paddington North

    CANDIDATE : Field

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. J. Field is a department manager who was born in 1910 and educated at Richmond County School and London University. He contested Hampstead in 1945, when he 1 reduced the Conservative majority of over 20,000 to 1,368 ; and entered Parliament in a by-election at North Pad-dington in 1946. Elected to Hammersmith Borough Council in 1945, he was leader of the council from 1946 to 1949 : and he is a member of the Metropolitan Borough Standing Joint Committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Pancras North Constituency – Biography of Harvey

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : St Pancras North Constituency – Biography of Harvey

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : St Pancras North

    CANDIDATE : Harvey

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. E. Harvey, aged 29, was educated at Laverian College, Bruges, and Lyme Regis grammar School. His special interest is the young Conservative Movement in which he has served in various executive capacities, before the war he worked for a travel agency and then became export manager for a firm of lubricating oil distributors. In the war he was a wireless operator in ?he Merchant Navy.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stoke Newington and Hackney North Constituency – Biography of Bishop

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stoke Newington and Hackney North Constituency – Biography of Bishop

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stoke Newington and Hackney North

    CANDIDATE : Bishop

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. H. Bishop, was born in Stoke Newington in 1905, and was educated at Seaford School and Felstead School. He is a partner in a firm of solicitors in Stoke Newington, and has been a member of Enfield council for nine years. He assisted in the evacuation from Dunkirk as an amateur yachtsman, and afterwards served in the Royal Navy.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woolwich East Constituency – Biography of Bevin

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woolwich East Constituency – Biography of Bevin

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Woolwich East

    CANDIDATE : Bevin

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. Bevin was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1945. He transferred at this election from Central Wandsworth, which he had represented since 1940. Born in 1881, he started work as a farm boy at the age of 10. He became active in the local unemployed and trade union movements in Bristol, and a leading figure in the old Dockers’ Union. He was general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, 1922-40. In the war-time Government he was Minister of Labour and National Service, and was responsible for the mobilization of man-power. He has been a member of commissions dealing with trusts, industrial relations, and finance and industry. As Foreign Secretary he has led the United Kingdom delegations to the United Nations, Council of Foreign Ministers, and Conference of Commonwealth Ministers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Altrincham and Sale Constituency – Biography of Bibby

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Altrincham and Sale Constituency – Biography of Bibby

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Altrincham and Sale

    CANDIDATE : Bibby

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. Bibby is a textile merchant and exporter in Salford, and is 58. Educated at Rochdale Secondary School, he has been associated for 40 years with the Labour movement and for several years was the sole Labour member of Lytham St. Annes Council. n ,,.38 he was chairman of the Labour Party at Wilmslow, where he lives. He is a member °t Manchester Royal Exchange.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bath Constituency – Biography of Hopkins

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bath Constituency – Biography of Hopkins

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bath

    CANDIDATE : Hopkins

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. P. Hopkins was born in 1907 and graduated at Bristol University, where he is on the staff as a tutor in adult education. He served in the R.A.O.C. in the last war, with the rank of major. He is chairman of the National Health Service executive council for Bath.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birkenhead Constituency – Biography of Trevor-Cox

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birkenhead Constituency – Biography of Trevor-Cox

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birkenhead

    CANDIDATE : Trevor-Cox

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. B. Trevor-Cox became M.P. for Stalybridge and Hyde at a by-election in 1937, but lost the seat in 1945. Ha has been Parliamentary private secretary to three Ministers. A major in the Welsh Guards, he served in France and was on the General Staff from 1940-44. He was born in 1908, educated at Eton and in America, and is a farmer and company director.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Handsworth Constituency – Biography of Bence

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Birmingham Handsworth Constituency – Biography of Bence

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Birmingham Handsworth

    CANDIDATE : Bence

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. R. Bence, the son of a farmer, was born 47 years ago near Bristol, and received an elementary school education. For many years he lectured on financial and economic problems. Twelve years ago he moved to Birmingham, where he has continued his party activities. He is a tool maker by trade, and during the war was chairman of the joint production committee in his factory.

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