Tuesday, 13 February 2018
1823 Hugh Edwards
Constituency : Mid Glamorgan 1910-18, Neath 1918-22, Accrington 1923-9
Hugh took over when Frederick Gibbins stepped down at Mid Glamorgan. He won in a straight fight against Labour.
Hugh's father was a wool merchant. He was a member of Cymru Fydd in the 1880s. He was a Congregationalist minister and a prolific writer for Welsh nationalist journals. He was a governor of both Aberystwyth and Cardiff universities.
Hugh was strongly anti-socialist. His maiden speech was in favour of Lords reform
Hugh supported Lloyd George and had an easy victory over Labour at Neath in 1918. He was part of a Speaker's Conference on the government of Scotland and Wales in 1920. He was defeated by Labour in 1922.
In 1923 Hugh switched to Accrington and defeated his former Liberal colleague Charles Buxton as the Unionists withdrew. In 1924 he held on by standing as a Constitutionalist but took the Liberal whip in the Commons.In 1929 he was defeated in a straight fight with Labour.
He wrote a number of biographies of Lloyd George.
He died in 1945 aged 76 after suffering from dementia for some years.
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