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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barnet Constituency – Biography of Maudling

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Barnet Constituency – Biography of Maudling

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Barnet

    CANDIDATE : Maudling

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. R. Maudling is 32 and a barrister, who has served in the R.A.F. and in the Air Ministry as the Minister’s private secretary. He is head of the Conservative Party’s economic department, and has been personal adviser on these subjects to Mr. Churchill. He was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School and Merton College, Oxford.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hertfordshire South West Constituency – Biography of Allaker

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hertfordshire South West Constituency – Biography of Allaker

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hertfordshire South West

    CANDIDATE : Allaker

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. Allaker is a London schoolmaster, aged 45, who had a grammar school and technical college education. He lives at Bushey, where he has been a member of the urban council and is chairman of the local Labour Party and of the Old People’s Welfare Committee and a member of the divisional education committee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dover Constituency – Biography of Owen

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dover Constituency – Biography of Owen

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dover

    CANDIDATE : Owen

    PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. J. Owen, aged 48, comes of a Welsh mining family, and is an employee of the National Coal Board. He has been tutor-organizer of the National Council of Labour Colleges, and educational secretary of the London Co-operative Society. For six years he was a member of Leicestershire County Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Maidstone Constituency – Biography of Rice

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Maidstone Constituency – Biography of Rice

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Maidstone

    CANDIDATE : Rice

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. T. F. Rice, aged 41, is the principal of a?transport and shipping firm, and founder chairman of the Bury St. Edmunds branch of the Road Haulage Association. Since the war he has spent much time in studying transport problems in Continental ports and traffic centres.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Clitheroe Constituency – Biography of Wyers

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Clitheroe Constituency – Biography of Wyers

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Clitheroe

    CANDIDATE : Wyers

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. W. Wyers, aged 59, is a temporary Civil servant at Blackpool. He is vice-chairman of Blackpool (N. Division) Liberal Association and active in the local youth movement and the Methodist Church.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lancaster Constituency – Biography of Maclean

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lancaster Constituency – Biography of Maclean

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lancaster

    CANDIDATE : Maclean

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Brig. Fitzroy Maclean won the division when he was a second lieutenant in 1941. Born in 1911, he served the Foreign Office in Paris and Moscow, but resigned from the diplomatic service to enlist as a private in The Cameron Highlanders. Later he joined the First Special Air Service Regiment. A feature in an adventurous life which he has led was his visit to the headquarters of Tito as head of the British Military Mission to Yugoslavia.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : South Fylde Constituency – Biography of Lancaster

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : South Fylde Constituency – Biography of Lancaster

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : South Fylde

    CANDIDATE : Lancaster

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Col. C. G. Lancaster was a prominent colliery owner until nationalization, and he represented the old Fylde division since 1938. Born in 1899 and educated at Eton, he is director of several industrial companies, and had a distinguished record in the war. He commanded The 9th Sherwood Foresters, one of the last units to leave Dunkirk. He has been a leading spokesman for the Opposition on coal and other industrial problems.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Melton Constituency – Biography of Nutting

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Melton Constituency – Biography of Nutting

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Melton

    CANDIDATE : Nutting

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Anthony Nutting, a former secretary to Mr. Anthony Eden, was an attache at the British Embassy, Paris, until the fall of France, and assisted in the evacuation of ?he women and children. In 1941 he organized intelligence and escape lines for allied personnel in Spain, and in 1944-45 served at the British Embassy in Rome. He was chairman of the Young Conservatives organization, 1946-47. Born in 1920, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gainsborough Constituency – Biography of Saville

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Gainsborough Constituency – Biography of Saville

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Gainsborough

    CANDIDATE : Saville

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. S. Saville, aged 51, was born in London and educated at a grammar school and privately. He served in the first world war from the age of 16, and in the second was attached to the Ministry of Information. He has been a social worker in London, and is engaged on the manufacturing side of the millinery business.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : King’s Lynn Constituency – Biography of Wise

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : King’s Lynn Constituency – Biography of Wise

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : King’s Lynn

    CANDIDATE : Wise

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. J. Wise became first Labour member for I the division in 1945. Born in 1887, he is a fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and for many years worked in the King’s Lynn valuation office of the Inland Revenue Department. Until last Michaelmas he farmed 750 acres in Oxfordshire. He served, with The Suffolk Regiment and in the air in the first world war, and in the last war was a land officer on the Air Ministry staff.

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