Elfed Davies, Baron Davies of Penrhys

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Gwilym Elfed Davies, Baron Davies of Penrhys (* 9. October 1913 , in Tylorstown , Rhondda Cynon Taf , † 28. April 1992 ) was a British trade union functionary and politician of the Labor Party , the long fourteen years member of the House of Commons and in 1974 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act .

Life

Miner, local politician and union official

Davies, the son of a miner , after attending Tylorstown Elementary School, worked like his father as a miner in the Tylorstown mine between 1928 and 1959 . Shortly after the start of this employment he was in 1929 member of both the National Union of Mineworkers of South Wales ( South Wales Miners Federation ) and the Labor Party. In the following years he was involved as a member of the executive committee in the constituency organization of the Labor Party ( Constituency Labor Party ) of Rhondda East and in the local association of the party in Rhondda . He was also between 1934 and 1940 first chairman and then from 1940 to 1954 treasurer of the Miners' Union in Tylorstown.

Davies, who was involved in the St John's Ambulance Brigade for twenty years between 1926 and 1946 and also became a member of the Co-operative Wholesale Society in 1940 , began his political career in local politics when he represented the Labor in 1954 Party was elected a member of the County Council of Glamorgan ( Glamorgan County Council ) and was a member until 1961. During this time he was also chairman of the local political committee of Glamorgan County Council from 1959 to 1961 and previously between 1958 and 1959 chairman of the National Union of Mineworkers in the Aberdare and Rhondda districts.

Member of the House of Commons and House of Lords

In the general election of October 8, 1959 , Davies was elected as a Labor Party candidate in the Rhondda East constituency for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and was a member of this for more than fourteen years until the constituency was dissolved in the February 28, 1974 elections . In his first election in 1959, he was able to prevail clearly against his competitors with 20,565 votes (65.2 percent). In his subsequent re-elections he achieved an absolute majority and with 77.4 percent of the vote in the general election on March 31, 1966, his best result.

After the election of the Labor Party in the general election on 15 October 1964 Davies was supported by Prime Minister Harold Wilson in November 1964. Parliamentary Private Secretary ( Parliamentary Private Secretary ) of Ray Gunter called the first labor minister between October 1964 and April 1968 ( Minister of Labor ) and then Minister of Power . In June 1968 Davies, who was briefly Secretary of the Miners' Parliamentary Group in 1964, ended his work with Minister Gunter and was then chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Party until 1969 .

After his departure from the House of Commons, Davies was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated July 8, 1974 as a life peer with the title Baron Davies of Penrhys, of Rhondda in the County of Mid Glamorgan and thus belonged to the nobility until his death House of Lords as a member. Its official launch ( Introduction ) and upper house member was carried out with support from Billy Blyton, Baron Blyton and Bernard Taylor, Baron Taylor of Mansfield on July 18, 1974th

Subsequently he was an honorary member of the South Wales Electricity Board between 1974 and 1980 and also became a member of the Sports Council for Wales in 1978 . In 1975 the city of Swansea awarded him the title of Freeman of the City .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 67 kB) in The Edinburgh Gazette of July 12, 1974@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
  2. ↑ Entry  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 111 kB) in The London Gazette of September 24, 1974@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
  3. ^ Entry in Hansard (July 18, 1974)
personal data
SURNAME Davies, Elfed, Baron Davies of Penrhys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davies, Gwilym Elfed, Baron Davies of Penrhys, of Rhondda in the County of Mid Glamorgan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Tylorstown , Rhondda Cynon Taf , Wales
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1992
Place of death Tylorstown , Rhondda Cynon Taf , Wales