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 : Wolverhampton North East

CANDIDATE : Holland

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. G. H. Holland, who comes from Acocks Green, Birmingham, is a member of the central office staff of the West Midlands Area Conservative and Unionist Association, For 16 years he represented Lancashire, Cheshire and Westmorland as labour advisory delegate on the executive committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.

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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 : Worthing

CANDIDATE : Prior-Palmer

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. O. L. Prior-Palmer was first returned in 1945 for the old Worthing division of West Sussex. Aged 52, he was educated at Wellington and Sandhurst, and commissioned in 1916 in the 9th Lancers. In the war he commanded an armoured brigade in Italy. He has travelled extensively and is a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

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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 : Abingdon

CANDIDATE : McCullagh

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. J. McCullagh, who is in an export business and was formerly sales and general manager for an office machinery firm, was born in 1908 and was educated in Australia and London School of Economics. He was chairman of St. Marylebone Labour Party, 1946-47, and has been on the borough council since 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 : Buckingham

CANDIDATE : Markham

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. F. Markham was successively Labour and National Labour M.P. for Rochester, 1929-31. He was joint Parliamentary private secretary to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. He then left the Party and was elected National M.P. for South Nottingham in 1935, losing the seat in 1945. He was educated at Stony Stratford and Wolverton, and at Wadham College, Oxford. He is an author, a Fellow of several learned societies, and an expert on museums. He is 53.

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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 : Chester

CANDIDATE : McKinnon

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. C. McKinnon, a Presbyterian minister in Liverpool, was the founder of the Labour Party in the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and introduced the Co-operative movement there. A padre during the war, he won the M.C. at Salerno for saving wounded under fire.

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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 : Stalybridge and Hyde

CANDIDATE : Lang

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

The Rev. Gordon Lang was born in 1893 and educated at ?on-mouth Grammar School and Theological College. Joining the Labour Party in 1916, he was senior M.P. for Oldham, 1929-31, and was elected for Stalybridge and Hyde in 1945, after fighting Old-ham in 1931 and 1935 and the Stalybridge by-election in 1937. A member of the Fabian Society, he led Parliamentary delegations to Japan in 1946 and 1947. He is on the Chairmen’s Panel at the House, chairman of the Proportional Representation Society, a founder member of Christian Action, and is on the international executive of the European Movement.

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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 Ives

CANDIDATE : Howard

PARTY : C. & Nat. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Greville R. Howard is a member of Westminster City Council and was mayor in 1947. Forty years of age, he was educated at Eton and Sandhurst and was commissioned in The Somerset Light Infantry. He relinquished his commission in order to go into business and take up local government work. Before the last war he joined the R.N.V.R. and served through the war in command of destroyers.

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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 : Belper

CANDIDATE : Lawrie

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. P. Lawrie, aged 47, director and editor of a technical journal, was trained as an industrial chemist and worked in the coal and sugar industries. He was commissioned in a Territorial Anti-Aircraft Regiment before the war, and during the war he commanded a Home Guard anti-aircraft unit in Hyde Park, and was senior censor of scientific publications at the Ministry of Information.

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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 : Derbyshire West

CANDIDATE : Strange

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. F. Strange, a solicitor, who was born in 1886, is president of the High Peak Liberal Association and of the Buxton Liberal Association. He served as a private with the West Yorks Regiment in the first world war until invalided out at the end of 1915. He played golf regularly for Derbyshire before the 1939-45 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 : Totnes

CANDIDATE : Rayner

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. R. H. Rayner began his career in the diplomatic service but on the declaration of war in 1914 he went into the Army, transferring to the Indian Army in 1917. In 1928 he went as A.D.C. to Lord Willingdon when the latter was Governor-General of Canada. He also served in the last war. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and in 1931 was secretary to the British Arctic Expedition to Greenland. Entering Parliament as member for Totnes in 1935, he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Pensions.

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