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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stretford Constituency – Biography of Storey

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stretford Constituency – Biography of Storey

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stretford

    CANDIDATE : Storey

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Samuel Storey sat in Parliament from 1931 to 1945 as member for Sunderland and was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Health from 1939 to 1942. Born in 1896, and educated at Haileybury and Cambridge, he is chairman and managing director of a newspaper company. He was chairman of the Press Association in 1938 and of Reuters in 1941.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Torquay Constituency – Biography of Williams

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Torquay Constituency – Biography of Williams

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Torquay

    CANDIDATE : Williams

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. Charles Williams was first returned as M.P. for Tavistock in 1918, which he represented until 1922. Since 1924 he has represented Torquay. In the war-time Parliament he was deputy chairman of Ways and Means. Born in 1886, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he comes of a family with a tradition of Parliamentary service. He is the eldest son of the late Mr. .1. C. Williams, formerly Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wallasey Constituency – Biography of Marples

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wallasey Constituency – Biography of Marples

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wallasey

    CANDIDATE : Marples

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. A. E. Marples, who won Wallasey from an Independent in 1945, was born in Manchester in 1907, After qualifying as an accountant, he started business as a builder with £20 borrowed capital, and achieved financial independence in 10 years. He is now managing director of a firm of civil engineering contractors. Sportsman and mountaineer, he played football for Dulwich Hamlet.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Warrington Constituency – Biography of Neep

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Warrington Constituency – Biography of Neep

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Warrington

    CANDIDATE : Neep

    PARTY : C

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. F. L. Neep is 44, and leaving school at 13 took spare-time technical and commercial courses. After working in the building and steel trades he became managing director and editor of a London publishing house. He next started business as an underground mining contractor, which ceased on nationalization, and he then turned his full-time attention to politics.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Bromwich Constituency – Biography of Dugdale

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Bromwich Constituency – Biography of Dugdale

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : West Bromwich

    CANDIDATE : Dugdale

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. John Dugdale, who was returned unopposed in 1941 and re-elected in 1945, when he was appointed Financial Secretary to the Admiralty. He is 44. Educated at Wellington and Oxford, he has been an attache at the British Legation, Peking, a journalist, war correspondent, and private secretary to Mr. Attlee.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Willesden East Constituency – Biography of Done

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Willesden East Constituency – Biography of Done

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Willesden East

    CANDIDATE : Done

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. J. Done, born in Cheshire in 1901, has lived in Willesden for 20 years. Starting as office boy with a City firm of tobacco importers, he is now head of the business. A freeman of the City of London, he is a liveryman of the Gardeners’ Company. He is a former vice-president of Willesden Liberal Association.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woodford Constituency – Biography of Davies

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Woodford Constituency – Biography of Davies

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Woodford

    CANDIDATE : Davies

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. H. Davies is a chartered accountant in East London and is chairman of the Epping Liberal Association and a member of the executive committee of the United Nations Association’s eastern region. He served during the war in the Royal Navy, and is aged 36.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedford Constituency – Biography of Humphrey

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bedford Constituency – Biography of Humphrey

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bedford

    CANDIDATE : Humphrey

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. L. J. Humphrey, aged 65, was in the 1929 campaign in charge of Liberal Party publicity. An authority on agriculture, he was for 14 years in the Department of Agriculture for Ireland. During the war he was responsible for an organization concerned with the aircraft industry.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Windsor Constituency – Biography of Nicholson

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Windsor Constituency – Biography of Nicholson

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Windsor

    CANDIDATE : Nicholson

    PARTY : Lab.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Miss M. Nicholson, born in 1914, took an honours degree in modern history at Oxford, taught in a grammar school in East Ham, and was an adult education tutor. In 1949, she was teaching in Nigeria. Assistant secretary of the Fabian Colonial Bureau and a member of the Labour Party Imperial Advisory Committee, she has made a special study of Indian problems.

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  • 1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wycombe Constituency – Biography of Law

    1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wycombe Constituency – Biography of Law

    CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

    The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

    CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wycombe

    CANDIDATE : Law

    PARTY : L.

    ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

    BIOGRAPHY :

    Mr. B. Law, born in 1926, the son of a bank manager, was commissioned in the 10th Royal Hussars in 1945 and served with the Rhine Army until 1948, when he returned to Oxford to study philosophy, politics, and economics. He joined the Oxford University Liberal Club, and became its president.

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