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 : Barking

CANDIDATE : Glenny

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. K. E. B. Glenny was unsuccessful at Barking in 1945. Born in 1900 into a well-known Barking family, he is a qualified surveyor in practice in London and South Essex, with a special knowledge of town and country planning. He is secretary of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers, and chairman of the Health Committee of the Essex County Council.

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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 : Beckenham

CANDIDATE : Buchan-Hepburn

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. P. Buchan-Hepburn, who represented the East Toxteth division of Liverpool from 1931, was Conservative Chief Whip in the late Parliament. In 1939 he was appointed an Assistant Government Whip and soon afterwards a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. During the war he joined the 11th City of London Yeomanry and became a brigade major. Born in 1901, he was educated at Harrow 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 : Birmingham Aston

CANDIDATE : Keatley

PARTY : Ind.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. W. Keatley, aged 58, was born in the Qivision, and is a manufacturer of enamel badges. He stood as an Independent because ne telt he had a mission in the cause of peace ; and he relied almost entirely on a circular letter which he addressed to the electorate. Undenominational religious services are held In a hall which he built in his garden.

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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 King’s Norton

CANDIDATE : Beesley

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. M. Beesley, aged 25, is a research worker. He is a B.Com. of Birmingham University, and became a research associate at the university in April, 1947, and in the following year undertook work on the economics side under the direction of Mr. Clive Williams for the Abercrombie-Jackson Town and Country Purvey, after which he resumed work at the university, where he is a member of the junior staff.

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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 Stechford

CANDIDATE : Haslam

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. S. W. Haslam, a surveyor and valuer, was a Liberal until 1945, had a brief association with the Unionists, but returned to his former allegiance. A company sergeant-major in the 1914-18 war, he served for a time in the Pioneer Corps in the last war, but returned to civil life and entered war industry. He is?a champion of the small trader.

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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 : Blyth

CANDIDATE : Amos

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. L. J. Amos (40) was educated at the Essex County High School. He entered the building trade at the age of 14 and eventually became building manager to a large firm in the north-east. He designed the Missions to Seamen Memorial at Hartlepool, the first to be built after the 1939-45 war. He took an active interest in local government work at Leyton.

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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 : Bradford Central

CANDIDATE : Webb

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Maurice Webb, member for the division since 1945, was born in 1904, joined the Labour Party in 1922 and was for many years a well-known political journalist before entering Parliament. From 1929 to 1935 he was propaganda officer for the Labour Party. He was chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party in the last Parliament.

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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 : Brentford and Chiswick

CANDIDATE : Parker

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. J. Parker is the organizer of the Brentford and Chiswick Communist Party. He is 33, unmarried, and a sheet metal worker. Early in the war, he was working in aircraft production, but was later called up and served in the R.A.F. He joined the Communist Party in 1940.

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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 : Bristol North West

CANDIDATE : Morris

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. C. Morris, 30 years old, began work as a farm labourer at 14 but later entered journalism and became editor of a journal devoted to agricultural interests. He served in the last war as correspondent with the Canadian Army, and later was a gunner in the Merchant Navy. Afterwards he became personal assistant to Mr. E. Shinwell. He is now the head of a publishing firm.

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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 : Burnley

CANDIDATE : Wilson

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. F. H. Wilson was the first Conservative candidate in Burnley since 1929. Aged 52, he is a member of Liverpool City Council and the chairman and managing director of retail stores and five companies in the Liverpool area. He is vice-chairman and one of the founders of Liverpool Industrial Advisory Council.

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