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 : Darwen

CANDIDATE : Haines

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Haines, a 39-year-old Manchester journalist, contested Darwen in 1945. During the war he had a special assignment with the political intelligence division of the Foreign Office in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and was demobilized with the rank of major.

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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 : Lancaster

CANDIDATE : Rogerson

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Rogerson, a native of Lancaster and, at the age of 47, export manager of a firm of linoleum manufacturers, has travelled widely in Europe and America. When he won a seat on Lancaster City Council he was one of three Liberals in a council of 32. He is president of the Lancaster division Liberal 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 : South Fylde

CANDIDATE : Gouldbourn

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. E. Gouldbourn, shoe and slipper manufacturer, is a former Territorial who ended his service in the war as a colonel on the staff of the 11th Army Group. Born in 1915 and educated at Heaton Moor College, Cheshire, he was for many years on the management staff of a Leicester shoe manufacturing company.

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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 : Melton

CANDIDATE : Kirby

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. H. Kirby stood in 1945 for Har-borough. For many years head of a motor transport company in the county, he is now retired but has interests in a local firm of agricultural merchants. He is 58.

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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 : Horncastle

CANDIDATE : Maitland

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. J. F. W. Maitland, member for the division since 1945, served in the Royal Navy until 1934, when he was retired after injuries. He rejoined the Navy in 1939 and was a gunnery officer on the submarine staff. He has actiyely engaged in local life in Essex, for which he has been deputy lieutenant, and was also a verderer of Epping Forest, and in Parliament was chairman of the Conservative sub-committee on education. He was born in London in 1903.

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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 : King’s Lynn

CANDIDATE : Winch

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. A. Winch, a 24-year-old graduate of Christ’s College, Cambridge, is the son of a Sheffield manufacturer, and is engaged on post-graduate work in anthropology. He served with Army Intelligence in the Far East and the Middle East 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 : Kettering

CANDIDATE : O’Connor

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. P. O’Connor, aged 33, a Southern Irishman who has been in Britain since 1932, served in the R.A.F. in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. He lives at Corby, near Kettering, and was a member of the executive committee of the Luton Trades Council, and is a former chairman of the Corby branch of the Constructional Workers’ Society. He is a member of the National Union of Railwaymen.

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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 : Morpeth

CANDIDATE : Turnbull

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. Turnbull, 34 years of age, is a steel worker at Consett. He started life as an office boy, and later transferred to the steel mills, where he still works. He is a member of the Consett Urban District 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 : Rushcliffe

CANDIDATE : Redmayne

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Col. M. Redmayne, who was born in 1910, is managing director of a No?tingham firm. During the war he commanded the 14th Battalion of The Sherwood Foresters and served at Anzio. In 1944 he formed and commanded the 66th Infantry Brigade.

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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 : Wrekin, The

CANDIDATE : Thomas

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. O. Thomas, born in 1898, went to an elementary school, and started work as a barber’s lather boy at the age of 10. After a period in the tinplate industry he went into the railway service as an engine cleaner. He won a National Union of Rail-waymen scholarship to London Labour College, and became a member of the N.U.R. headquarters staff. He has been a member of Battersea Borough Council and the L.C.C.

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