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 : East Ham South

CANDIDATE : Barnes

PARTY : Co-op. & Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Alfred Barnes has represented the constituency since 1922, except for one break in 1931-35. Born in I887, he was first an artist in gold and silver. He was the first president of the London – Co-operative Society and held the office nine years, and has been chairman of the Cooperative Party for 21 years. A former Labour Whip and junior Lord of the Treasury, he became Minister of Transport 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 : Enfield West

CANDIDATE : Campbell

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. P. Campbell, a Fellow of the Spectacle Makers’ Company, is a sales director and works council chairman at an Enfield optical nnn. He served in the Army in both world wars. In the first he won the Military Medal while serving with the London Division, and ‘n the second was with the Royal Artillery and then with the R.A.S.C. He served in Normandy, Belgium and Germany.

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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 : Gillingham

CANDIDATE : Binns

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Binns, born in 1900, received an elementary and secondary education, and became efficiency engineer, Manchester Corporation electricity department. Afterwards he was chief assistant engineer, I.C.I., and secretary of the I.C.I, engineering committee. He was elected to Greenwich Borough Council, 1932, and became leader of the council, ‘ “43 ; also a member of Metropolitan Borough Standing Joint Committee and a Commissioner of the Public Works Loan Board. In the last Parliament he was Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Wilmot when Minister of Supply.

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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 : Harrow East

CANDIDATE : Harvey

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. I. Harvey, a former president of the Oxford Union is 34. He won a history exhibition and a Kitchener scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, from Fettes College, Edinburgh, in 1933. He is secretary of the Oxford University Graduates’ Conservative Association. During the war he saw service as brigade major with an anti-aircraft brigade, and now commands the 566 L.A.A. Regiment, R.A. (City of London Rifles), T.A. He is in business as an advertising agent.

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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 : Hayes and Harlington

CANDIDATE : Foster

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. Foster, an engineer, aged 35, is a member of the Engineering Shop Stewards National Council, secretary of Hayes Communist Party, and a member of the editorial board of the Communist 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 : Hornsey

CANDIDATE : Leevers

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Miss A. Leevers, a 36-year-old teacher, was educated at Tollington High School, Muswell Hill, and London University, where she gained an English honours degree. She is a tutor in social studies and English at Barnet further education centre. From 1944-46 she was a Red Cross relief worker in Italy and Austria, and later worked in displaced persons camps in Vienna. In 1949 she won the senior Walter Hines scholarship and toured the United States.

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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 : Ipswich

CANDIDATE : Stokes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. R. Stokes, chairman and managing director of Ransqmes and Rapier Limited, Ipswich, was first returned for Ipswich in 1938. Born in 1897, he was educated at Downside, the Royal Military Academy, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served in the Royal Artillery in the 1914-18 war, winning the M.C. and bar and the Croix-de-Guerre. He was on the Parliamentary delegation to Cairo, 1947. He is well known in the House for his independent outlook and outspoken criticisms.

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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 : Kingston upon Hull North

CANDIDATE : Lawson

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. F. C. Lawson, the son of a miner, was educated at elementary and grammar schools, and at college, and is a head master. For many years he was a member of the Chester-?e-Street Urban Council. He is on the executive committee of the National Union of Teachers, and during the war was a captain in the Royal Artillery.

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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 : Leeds North West

CANDIDATE : Mishcon

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. V. Mishcon, who was born in London •n 1915, is a solicitor practising in London and Leeds. He became a member of Lambeth Borough Council in 1945, and of the L.C.C. in 1946, and has been chairman of the Public Control Committee of the L.C.C. for two years. He served during the war, and was afterwards appointed adjutant of the 2nd Cadet Bn., the Royal Fusiliers.

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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 : Leicester North West

CANDIDATE : Nicolson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. N. Nicolson, who was born in 1917, is a son of Mr. Harold Nicolson, who for 10 years represented the former West Leicester division at Westminster as National Labour member and was the unsuccessful Labour candidate at the North Croydon by-election in 1948. Mr. N. Nicolson was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He served in the Grenadier Guards during the war. He is a director of a publishing company.

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