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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kettering Constituency – Biography of Isham

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kettering Constituency – Biography of Isham

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kettering

    CANDIDATE : Isham

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir G. Isham, after leaving Oxford where he was president of the Union, took to the stage and films, playing in this country and America. During the war he rose from private in The London Irish Rifles to major on the staff at Middle East Headquarters, and staff officer in intelligence at Ninth Army headquarters. After holding a staff appointment at the War Office he became Defence Security Officer in Palestine.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hexham Constituency – Biography of Hancock

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hexham Constituency – Biography of Hancock

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hexham

    CANDIDATE : Hancock

    PARTY : Ind. L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Alexander Hancock is 52 and?a Northamptonshire farmer who was formerly in business as a shoe manufacturer. In the 1945 General Election he opposed Mr. Winston Churchill in the new division of Woodford, and surprisingly polled over 10,000 votes as an Independent against Mr. Churchill’s 27,000. In his election address then he advocated one hour’s productive work a day for everybody —equal to a one-day working week with six days’ leisure—and the development of a ” philosophic community.”

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newark-on-Trent Constituency – Biography of Shephard

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newark-on-Trent Constituency – Biography of Shephard

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newark-on-Trent

    CANDIDATE : Shephard

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. S. Shephard, M.P. for Newark from 1943 to the dissolution, is chairman and managing director of a Nottingham firm manufacturing children’s clothes, and was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1941. He served with The Sherwood Foresterers from 1914 to 1919, was commissioned from the ranks, and won the M.C., and was an Army welfare officer from 1939 to 1946, as well as commanding the Newark Home Guard battalion.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shrewsbury Constituency – Biography of Cant

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Shrewsbury Constituency – Biography of Cant

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Shrewsbury

    CANDIDATE : Cant

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. B. Cant, an Oxford University staff tutor for adult education, aged 35, was educated at Middlesbrough High School and London School of Economics where he gained first class honours in economics and political science. He served with the Royal Corps of Signals ; and for the past two years has been chairman of the Burton divisional Labour Party.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Weston-super-Mare Constituency – Biography of Orr-Ewing

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Weston-super-Mare Constituency – Biography of Orr-Ewing

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Weston-super-Mare

    CANDIDATE : Orr-Ewing

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. I. L. Orr-Ewing won Weston-super-Mare in a by-election in 1934, He has been Parliamentary private secretary to five Ministers and was a member of the Rhode-sian – Nyasaland Royal Commission. Born in 1893 and educated at Harrow and Oxford, he was A.D.C. to the General commanding the 20th Division in France, where he was wounded, in the 1914-18 war, and afterwards studied farming in West Cornwall.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lichfield and Tamworth Constituency – Biography of Ward

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lichfield and Tamworth Constituency – Biography of Ward

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lichfield and Tamworth

    CANDIDATE : Ward

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mrs. S. A. Ward was born in Staffordshire in 1896 and is a member of a family which has been farming in the county for generations. She is the wife of a farmer, whom she helps on their farm at Walsall Wood, within the Lichfield constituency. She served from 1914 to 1918 as a V.A.D. nurse. She was M.P. for Cannock from 1931 to 1935. After the last war she was appointed to the staff of the Ministry of Labour and dealt with welfare in industry.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sudbury and Woodbridge Constituency – Biography of James

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Sudbury and Woodbridge Constituency – Biography of James

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Sudbury and Woodbridge

    CANDIDATE : James

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Sir Frederick James was born in 1892, and during the 1914-18 war was general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in India. From 1928-41 he was political adviser to British, interests in South India and a member of the All India Legislative Assembly, 1932-45. He was knighted in 1941.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Esher Constituency – Biography of Brown

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Esher Constituency – Biography of Brown

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Esher

    CANDIDATE : Brown

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. R. Brown, born in 1900, has spent his life in the steel industry. He rose from the bench to executive level, and is the manager of a firm of steel manufacturers. In addition, he is a director of steel and industrial companies, and a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. For some years he was a member of the Surrey County Council. He served in the R.F.C. in the 1914-18 war. He is a member of the national executive of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Surrey Conservative Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eastbourne Constituency – Biography of Groves

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eastbourne Constituency – Biography of Groves

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eastbourne

    CANDIDATE : Groves

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Groves is an author, journalist, and lecturer, aged 41, who lectures for Labour colleges and the W.E.A. He contested Ayles-bury in 1938 and 1945, and has been a member of the Labour Party for 25 years.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Horsham Constituency – Biography of Marchant

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Horsham Constituency – Biography of Marchant

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Horsham

    CANDIDATE : Marchant

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss E. M. Marchant was born at Mansfield, Notts, in 1888, and was educated at Mansfield and Royal Holloway College. After teaching at Westcliff-on-Sea, Darlington, and Mansfield, she was head mistress of Horsham High School for Girls for 28 years, retiring last year.

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