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 : Lambeth Norwood

CANDIDATE : Fredericke

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Fredericke, aged 26, is a free lance journalist and an art expert and picture dealer. He resigned from the Conservative Party after the 1949 Conference, and is a member of the executive of the Chelsea Liberal Association. He served with the R.A.F. during the war as an air crew cadet.

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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 : Paddington North

CANDIDATE : Turner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Lawrence Turner is 42 and was educated at Radley College. He is managing director of a trust company, and director of a family paint business. During the war he served in the ranks and was later commissioned. After being captured in Siam he lectured on politics to prisoners of 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 : St Pancras North

CANDIDATE : Whitton

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. W. C. Whitton, a senior partner in a London firm of solicitors, was born 34 years ago in Highgate. He was educated at Highgate School and London University. During the war he became a troop commander in a regiment of field artillery, serving in North-West Lurope, and was awarded the Military Cross. He is interested in youth work and is chairman of the Management Committee of the Aldenham Boys’ Club, Highgate.

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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 : Stoke Newington and Hackney North

CANDIDATE : Hargrave

PARTY : Soc. Credit

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Hargrave, founder-leader of the Social Credit Party of Great Britain, is 55, and was educated at Midhurst. He is an artist and writer. He is the author of 16 books, including a biography of the late Lord Norman, former Governor of the Bank of England. In 1936-37 he was economic adviser to the Aberhart Government of Alberta and drew up the social credit plans for the Plan-n]ng Committee of the Government.

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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 : Woolwich East

CANDIDATE : Sage

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. M. Sage, born in 1922 and educated at Kilburn Grammar School and London University, graduated in Metallurgy, 1943, and took an external degree at the university, 1946. He was afterwards engaged in the manufacture of metal components for aitcraft, and in the steel and non-ferrous metal industry. He has lectured at London technical colleges. He is keenly interested in social service, particularly youth work.

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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 : Ashton-under-Lyne

CANDIDATE : Rhodes

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Rhodes contested the Royton division unsuccessfully at the »dst general election, but pi *. months later was elected for Ashton at a °y-election. He has been * member of the Parliamentary Textile Commit-£e and the trade and ndustry groups in Par-“dment, and accom- Parliamentary ndTS t0 Austr’a Afi-‘ Japan and an economic mission to a tT?:. Aged 54> he is managing director of tliencn ? In the 1914-18 war he won c u.kc and bar.

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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 : Batley and Morley

CANDIDATE : Bremner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. W. Bremner is 34, and the wife of Mr. J. G. M. Bremner, of Stockton-on-Tees, one of the principal chemists of I.C.I, at Billingham, where she was for a time also employed. She JJ a member of the executive committee of the ^tockton Conservative Association. She was born in Batley, where her father owns a manufacturing chemist’s business, and went to Leeds University and Cambridge.

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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 : Birkenhead

CANDIDATE : Coulthard

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. Coulthard, born in Birkenhead in 1898, enlisted during the first world war at the age of 16 and saw service oversea before being sent home as under age. He re-enlisted when of age and was gassed on the Somme. He spent several years in the United States, and is a book shop manager.

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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 : Birmingham Ladywood

CANDIDATE : Yates

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. V. Yates, who won the seat from Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd in 1945, was born in 1900. He won two scholarships— one for an industrial training course at Birmingham University, and the other at Ruskin College, Oxford, where he spent a year studying j economics and political science. For a number of years he has served on the city council and in other public offices ; and for a time was on the national executive of the Clerical and Administrative Workers’ Union.

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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 : Birmingham Sparkbrook

CANDIDATE : Debenham

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. K. Debenham is a great-nephew of Joseph Chamberlain. Aged 44, he holds honours degrees in economics and history. From 1930 to 1941 he was a member of the staff of the Economic Advisory Council and from 1934 was also secretary of the Committee of Economic Information. During the war he was in The Coldstream Guards, but having transferred to the civil affairs organization created to administer liberated European countries, he became deputy chief of the financial branch of the German Control Commission.

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