Ted Rowlands, Baron Rowlands

Edward "Ted" Rowlands, Baron Rowlands , CBE (born January 23, 1940 ) is a Welsh politician who sat for the Labor Party in the House of Commons for over 30 years and was Minister of State in the 1970s.

Youth and education

He attended Rhondda Grammar School and Wirral Grammar School and then studied at King's College London , where he graduated with a BA in History in 1962 .

Political career

Rowlands was first elected to the House of Commons for the Cardiff- North constituency in 1966 , but lost his seat again in the 1970 general election . In the 1972 by-election in the Merthyr Tydfil constituency after the death of MP SO Davies , he moved back into parliament and held his seat until the constituencies were redesigned in the 1983 general election, in which he won the parliamentary seat for the Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney constituency . He defended his seat in three consecutive elections until he was voted out of office in 2001 .

He was junior minister under Harold Wilson , and from 1969 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1975 Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the Wales Department. From 1976 he was Minister of State in the State Department under James Callaghan until the Labor government was voted out of office in the British general election in 1979 .

In 2002 he was named Commander of the British Empire and in 2004 he was promoted to life peer as Baron Rowlands , of Merthyr Tydfil and of Rhymney in the County of Mid-Glamorgan . In the House of Lords he is a member of the Constitution Committee .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.parliament.uk