1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Neath Constituency – Biography of Williams

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Neath

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. J. Williams, 53, secretary of the Welsh Parliamentary Group in the last Parliament, began work in the mines at the age of 13, and won a Miners’ Federation scholarship to the Labour College. A further scholarship took him to Ruskin College, Oxford, and in 1924 he became a lecturer at the Labour College in Scotland. Returning to Wales in 1931, he became a checkweighman, secretary of the miners’ lodge, and member of the executive of the South Wales Miners’ Federation. He is an ex-chairman of Pontardawe R.D.C.

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