Leonard Williams

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Sir Arthur Leonard "Len" Williams GCMG (born January 22, 1904 in Birkenhead , Merseyside , England , † December 27, 1972 in Port Louis , Mauritius ) was a British politician of the Labor Party and Governor General of Mauritius.

Life

Len Williams was after the end of his schooling in 1918 employees of the railway company British Railways and engaged there shortly afterwards in the union . As early as 1920 to 1921 he took on his first functions in the railway union in Liverpool and in north Wales . He was then between 1921 and 1923, with the support of the union, a graduate of Worker's College in London , which other later leaders of the Labor Party such as Aneurin Bevan , James Griffiths and Morgan Phillips had also attended. He then returned to British Railways for a short period of time, but was already a member of the Birkenhead Railway Workers' Union District Committee.

In 1924 he became a lecturer at Worker's College in Liverpool before he became a full-time functionary on the National Board of Worker's Colleges in 1926. In addition, he has been involved in the organization and management of adult and further education centers in Merseyside, in northern Lancashire and in Bristol for over ten years .

He was also involved in the Labor Party and was a long-time National Agent of the Labor Party in 1961 alongside George Brown and Ray Gunter on a subcommittee of the Labor Party's Organizing Committee, which dealt with partisan disciplinary measures. In 1962, Williams succeeded Morgan Phillips as General Secretary of the Labor Party and held that office for six years until he was replaced by Harry Nicholas .

He then succeeded John Shaw Rennie as Governor General of Mauritius on September 3, 1968 and held this office until his death on December 27, 1972. He was succeeded by Raman Osman .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric Shaw: Discipline and Discord in the Labor Party: The Politics of Managerial Control in the Labor Party, 1951–1987 . In: The Politics of Managerial Control in the Labor Party, 1951–1987 . Manchester University Press, Manchester; New York 1988, ISBN 0-7190-2483-8 , pp. 52 u. a . (English, 387 pages, limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Leonard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Sir Arthur Leonard (full name); Williams, Len (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Mauritian politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Birkenhead , Merseyside, England
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1972
Place of death Port Louis