Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor

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Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor

Thomas William "Tom" Jones, Baron Maelor (born February 10, 1898 in Ponciau , † November 18, 1984 ibid) was a Welsh politician of the Labor Party .

Political career

Thomas Jones was born into a mining family in Wales . He attended the local elementary school and at the age of 14 became a miner in the nearby Bersham coal mine . During the First World War he refused military service , but was given the assurance that he would be able to serve in the army as a non-combatant . But because he did not obey an order for reasons of conscience, he was sentenced to six months in prison by a military court in 1917 . He was serving his sentence in Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London . Later he was in the labor camp of Princetown relocated, located in the former prison of Dartmoor in Devon was. After the war he attended Normal College in Bangor , Gwynedd , and qualified as a teacher. From 1922 to 1940 he was director of a school; In 1937 he became Justice of the Peace for Denbighshire . From 1940 to 1946 he worked for the British Department of Social Affairs. In 1946 he worked for the North Wales Power and Electric Co and was responsible for the social issues of the employees. He was also involved in the North Wales Labor Federation .

In 1935 Jones ran for the first time for the Labor Party , but was not elected. It was not until 1951 that he succeeded in being elected to the British House of Commons for the constituency of Meirionnydd . He remained a member of parliament until 1966; his brother James Idwal Jones was also a member of parliament from 1955 to 1970. His main political concerns were the public ownership of Bala Lake and the construction of a nuclear reactor in Trawsfynydd and a pumped storage plant in Blaenau Ffestiniog , both places with high unemployment.

In June 1966 he was named a Life Peer with the title Baron Maelor, of Rhosllannerchrugog in the County of Denbighshire . In the House of Lords, he continued to be very involved in Welsh issues; so he made the front against the abolition of the Welsh Sunday , according to which it was forbidden to open pubs and hold sporting events on Sundays.

At the ceremony for the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales , Lord Maelor wore one of the crown and ring pillows presented to the Queen during the ceremony. In 1981 he was hailed as a singing baron after being the first person to perform a song in the House of Lords . He also wrote poetry and was a member of the Gorsedd (Bard Association) at the Eisteddfod Music Festival and President of the International Eisteddfod in Llangollen . The lord, described as humorous, was known for telling entertaining anecdotes in both English and Welsh, and enjoyed boasting of having been in the two worst prisons in Britain.

Lord Maelor, who had been a smoker all his life, died of a fire one night in his house in Ponciau; it was assumed that this was triggered by a smoldering cigarette.

Fonts

  • Y Senedd. Y Senedd: hanes datblygiad a gwaith y Senedd yn San Steffan ynghyd â'i defodau a'i thraddodiadau . (Reports from Parliament) 1969.
  • Fel Hyn y bu . (Memories) 1970.
  • Thomas Jefferson: Trydydd Arlywydd America . 1980.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43981, HMSO, London, May 19, 1966, p. 5785 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Thomas, Baron Maelor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Tom William, Baron Maelor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh Labor Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Ponciau
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1984
Place of death Ponciau