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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Merionethshire Constituency – Biography of Williams-Wynne

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Merionethshire Constituency – Biography of Williams-Wynne

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Merionethshire

    CANDIDATE : Williams-Wynne

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Lt.-Col. J. F. Williams-Wynne was born in London and went to Cambridge. He served for 20 years in the Army, mostly in India, Ceylon, and Burma. After his retirement from the forces, he took up farming and market gardening and lives at Llanegryn, near Merioneth.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Pembrokeshire Constituency – Biography of Donnelly

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Pembrokeshire Constituency – Biography of Donnelly

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Pembrokeshire

    CANDIDATE : Donnelly

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. D. Donnelly, who was born in 1920 is director of the Town and Country Planning Association. He joined the Labour Party in 1936 and has twice previously sought to enter Parliament. He was at one time editor of a town planning journal and is a journalist.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dundee West Constituency – Biography of Scrymgeour-Wedderburn

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dundee West Constituency – Biography of Scrymgeour-Wedderburn

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dundee West

    CANDIDATE : Scrymgeour-Wedderburn

    PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. J. Scrymgeour-Wedderburn is 47, stands 6ft. 4in. in height, and is Hereditary Standard-Bearer of Scotland. Educated at Oxford, he was president of the Union. Elected for West Renfrew in 1931, he was Under-Secretary for Scotland from 1936 to 1939. Rejoining The Black Watch on the outbreak of war, he was on General Eisenhower’s staff for the final attack on Germany. He lost his seat in Parliament in 1945. He farms an estate at Birkhill, Fife.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh North Constituency – Biography of Willis

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Edinburgh North Constituency – Biography of Willis

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Edinburgh North

    CANDIDATE : Willis

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. E. G. Willis, member for the division since 1945, was born in Norwich 42 years ago and is a bookseller. He was for many years political organizer for the party in the division. He has served in the Royal Navy and the Royal Artillery. He is a member of the Central Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Pens.ons and the Scottish Advisory Council and the British Council.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Camlachie Constituency – Biography of McFarlane

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Camlachie Constituency – Biography of McFarlane

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Camlachie

    CANDIDATE : McFarlane

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. C. S. McFarlane won the division in January, 1948, at a by-election after the death of Mr. Campbell Stephen, an I.L.P. member. The splitting of the Left-wing vote enabled him to win. He is 54 years of age and a Glasgow business man, being a director of a firm of hardware manufacturers.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Hillhead Constituency – Biography of Thomson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Hillhead Constituency – Biography of Thomson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Hillhead

    CANDIDATE : Thomson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. G. M. Thomson, aged 29, is editor of a Scottish Socialist journal. He has not hitherto played a prominent part in local politics. He is a member of the Fabian Society and served six years in the R.A.F. He is a lecturer on current affairs for the extra-mural department of Glasgow University.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Shettleston Constituency – Biography of McGovern

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Glasgow Shettleston Constituency – Biography of McGovern

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Glasgow Shettleston

    CANDIDATE : McGovern

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. McGovern, a former plumber and insurance agent, and once regarded as the ” stormy petrel ” of the Labour movement, led ” hunger marches ” from Glasgow to Edinburgh and London. He has been arrested on several occasions in connexion with free speech campaigns. Elected as an l.L.P. member in 1930, he joined the Labour Party in 1947. He has served on Glasgow Town Council and is a member of the Co-operative movement.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Greenock Constituency – Biography of Campbell

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Greenock Constituency – Biography of Campbell

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Greenock

    CANDIDATE : Campbell

    PARTY : Comm.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. R. Campbell contested the constituency in 1945. He is a member of the executive of the Communist Party and was appointed editor of the Daily Worker about a year ago. He was directly involved in the overthrow of the Labour Government in 1924, and in 1925 was arrested, along with other members of the Communist Party, and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. He won the military medal in the 1914-18 war?

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : North Angus and Mearns Constituency – Biography of Thornton-Kemsley

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : North Angus and Mearns Constituency – Biography of Thornton-Kemsley

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : North Angus and Mearns

    CANDIDATE : Thornton-Kemsley

    PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Colin Thornton-Kemsley represented Kincardine and W. Aberdeen from 1939. Born in 1903, he was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, and for a time practised in the family firm of chartered surveyors in London. He is a director of the John Lewis Partnership. During the war he held staff appointments with ths Royal Artillery and was Assistant Quartermaster-General, Eastern Command, with the rank of colonel.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kilmarnock Constituency – Biography of Ross

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Kilmarnock Constituency – Biography of Ross

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Kilmarnock

    CANDIDATE : Ross

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. W. Ross won Kilmarnock in a by-election in 1946, after having been defeated in Ayr Burghs in 1945. Thirty-eight years of age, he is a graduate of Glasgow University and a teacher. He served in The Highland Light Infantry in India, Burma, and Singapore, and latterly was at Lord Mountbatten’s headquarters in Ceylon with the rank of major.

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