1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hexham Constituency – Biography of Hancock

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hexham

CANDIDATE : Hancock

PARTY : Ind. L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Alexander Hancock is 52 and?a Northamptonshire farmer who was formerly in business as a shoe manufacturer. In the 1945 General Election he opposed Mr. Winston Churchill in the new division of Woodford, and surprisingly polled over 10,000 votes as an Independent against Mr. Churchill’s 27,000. In his election address then he advocated one hour’s productive work a day for everybody —equal to a one-day working week with six days’ leisure—and the development of a ” philosophic community.”

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