Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BROOKES, BEATA ANN (1930 - 2015), politician candidate selection between Beata Brookes, Geraint Morgan, sitting MP for Denbigh, and Sir Anthony Meyer, sitting MP for West Flint. Brookes was a popular candidate with the support of local Conservative activists, and she won the selection vote in March 1983. However, Meyer eventually won this contest in May after the previous decision was reversed in the courts. Brookes held the North Wales seat in the
BRUCE, HENRY AUSTIN (1815 - 1895), 1st baron Aberdare of 12 returned to Wales and was sent to Swansea grammar school. He was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1837. After practising for a few years he left England owing to his state of health and spent two years in Italy. On his return he was appointed stipendiary magistrate for Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare. In 1852, on the death of Sir John Guest, he was returned unopposed as Liberal member for
BULMER-THOMAS, IVOR (1905 - 1993), Labour, later Conservative, politician and writer , initially with the Royal Fusiliers, 1939-40, and then attaining the rank of Captain in the Royal Norfolk Regiment in 1941, serving until the end of hostilities. He stood as the Labour candidate against Sir John Simon (the leader of the National Liberal group of MPs known as Simonites) in the Spen Valley constituency of the West Riding of Yorkshire in the general election of 1935, narrowly missing election
CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician avoid excessive wage rises, and by 1978 both unemployment and inflation were under control. Maintaining his minority government was another problem, since Labour had lost seats in by-elections and were dependent on a pact with the Liberal Party and the goodwill of Welsh and Scottish nationalist MPs. Callaghan admits in his autobiography that he should have called an election in October 1978. For Wales
CARTER-JONES, LEWIS (1920 - 2004), Labour politician became a member of the TGWU. He unsuccessfully contested the Chester division in the 1956 by-election and in the 1959 general election. He was elected the Labour MP for the Eccles division of Lancashire in the 1964 general election and was subsequently re-elected there in each general election until his retirement at the general election of 1987. His successor in the constituency was Joan Lestor. He
CEMLYN-JONES, Sir ELIAS WYNNE (1888 - 1966), public figure Born 16 May 1888 in Gwredog, Amlwch, Anglesey, son of John Cemlyn Jones, a solicitor from Caerphilly, and Gaynor Hannah, daughter of John Elias Jones, from Penmaen-mawr (and through his wife, of Gwredog, Amlwch), a prominent figure in the public life of Anglesey and an ardent Liberal. His father died when he was a child and he was educated privately: at Mostyn School, Parkgate, Cheshire, at
CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (1774 - 1855), industrialist and public figure , junior, was a man of markedly liberal opinions. He was one of the founders, in 1839, of the Llanelly Reform Society. Although a magistrate, he took the chair at the Rebecca demonstration at Mynydd Sylen on 25 August 1843. But he took part, also, in the capture of Rebecca leaders in the attack on gates at Pontarddulais on the night of 6 September 1843, and suffered reprisals from the rioters. (See John
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician MP for the Neath division in the general election of October 1964. At the time it was a predominantly coal-mining constituency where the nominee of the NUM was invariably favourite at the selection conference. Coleman, against all the odds, was chosen at the fourth ballot and thus inherited one of the safest Labour seats in the whole of Britain. He remained MP for Neath until the time of his death
COOMBE TENNANT, WINIFRED MARGARET (Mam o Nedd; 1874 - 1956), delegate to the first assembly of the League of Nations, suffragette, Mistress of the Robes of the Gorsedd of the Bards, and a well-known medium woman fought for permission for prisoners in Swansea to use safety razors and not grow a beard. Consequently this policy was adopted throughout the United Kingdom. In politics she was a fervent Liberal and greatly admired Lloyd George. In 1922 she was parliamentary candidate for the Forest of Dean, but failed to win the seat. Her connections with Lloyd George led to her appointment as one of the
COOMBES, BERT LEWIS (1893 - 1974), coal miner and writer committed socialist, Coombes used his writing to advocate for political changes that would secure a better society after the war, such as nationalisation of the mines. In 1944, he contributed to The Life We Want, a pamphlet sponsored by the Liberal Party, but was not a member of any political party. In the same year, Coombes published his second book, Those Clouded Hills, and a year later, Miners Day was
CRAWSHAY, Sir GEOFFREY CARTLAND HUGH (1892 - 1954), soldier and social benefactor toured the west country every year and served as a nursery for young Welsh players and by his presidency of the London Welsh Rugby Club from 1924 onwards. His next interest was in politics: Liberal summer schools, the League of Nations, and several unsuccessful forays as a Liberal candidate for south Wales parliamentary constituencies. After 1930, however, he turned from active politics to social work
CROWTHER, JOHN NEWTON (Glanceri; 1847 - 1928), schoolmaster periodicals and newspapers, and also a musician of merit who contributed several musical compositions and Christmas carols to Cymru (O.M.E.). He took a lively interest in the politics of Cardiganshire and championed the Liberal cause with his pen, his election songs being very popular. He retired in 1924 and resided for a time at Cardiff, removing to Solva, Pembrokeshire, a few months before his death on 14

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