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 : Caerphilly

CANDIDATE : Edwards

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Ness Edwards, member for the division since 1939, was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour in the last Government. Born in 1897, he was educated at an elementary school and at the London Labour College. He was a colliery boy at 13, and became miners’ secretary in 1927 and miners’ agent in 1932. He organized the escape of Sudeten miners from Czechoslovakia in 1939 after Munich, and was on the Parliamentary delegation to Buchenwald camp in 1945.

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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 : Merionethshire

CANDIDATE : Parry

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. O. Parry was born at Bethel, Caernarvonshire, and educated at University College, Bangor. He was at one time North Wales Regional Officer of the National Council of Social Service, and is a former education officer and programme director of the B.B.C, Welsh Regio?. He is chairman of the Merioneth Service of Youth and Further Education Committee.

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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 : Montgomeryshire

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. D. Williams contested the Wrexham division as a Literal in 1945. Later he joined the Labour Party. Born in 1895, he became a sales executive officer and then a farmer, and has been a member of the Merioneth County 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 : Dundee West

CANDIDATE : Strachey

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. J. St. L. Strachey, Minister of Food, in the last government, was born at Guild-ford in 1901 and educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. A Conservative when he went to Oxford, he joined the Labour Party in 1924 and fought Aston (Birmingham), which seat he won in 1929. In 1931, with Sir Oswald Mosley, he resigned from the Labour Party, but later denounced Mosley’s Fascist tendencies. He joined the R.A.F. in 1941, gave broadcasts on the air war, and left the Service as a wing commander. Elected junior M.P. for Dundee in 1945, he became Undersecretary at the Air Ministry, and succeeded Sir Ben Smith as Minister of Food in 1946.

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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 : Edinburgh North

CANDIDATE : Clyde

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. L. Clyde, K.C., contested Peebles and Midlothian at the last General Election. Aped 51, he is a son of the late Lord Clyde, a distinguished Scottish judge who was North Edinburgh’s first M.P. when the division was created early in the century. Mr. Clyde became a King’s Counsel in 1936, and during the war was appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to report on the allocation of Government contracts in Scotland.

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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 : Glasgow Camlachie

CANDIDATE : Reid

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Reid is in business as a manufacturers’ agent, and has been a member of Glasgow Corporation since 1920. He is interested in transport, and has been convener of the transport, general finance, housing, and health committees of the corporation.

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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 : Glasgow Hillhead

CANDIDATE : Galbraith

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith is a son of Cmd?. T. D. Galbraith, member for the Pollok division of Glasgow since 1940, and joined his father at Westminster when he won Hillhead at a by-election in 1948. Aged 33, he was educated at Wellington College and Oxford, and is a member of the English Bar. He served with minesweepers during the war.

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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 : Glasgow Scotstoun

CANDIDATE : Ferguson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. Ferguson is 39, and a former officer of the Merchant Navy. He served as a major in the Royal Indian Engineers. A chiropodist, he is a past Secretary for Scotland of the joint council of the chiropodists of Great Britain.

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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 : Greenock

CANDIDATE : Thomson

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. S. Thomson, born in Greenock in 1908, is a garage proprietor and engineer in the town. He joined the Labour Party in the war and was Mr. H. McNeil’s transport officer in the 1945 General Election, but later he resigned from the Party.

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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 : Aberdeenshire West

CANDIDATE : Davies

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. R. M. Davies, a journalist, is the son of an Edinburgh Congregational minister, and graduated with honours in history at Edinburgh University, where he was president of the Liberal Club and editor of the magazine. He writes on political and social questions.

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