Friday, 20 April 2018
1890 Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams
Constituency : Banbury 1918-22
Sir Rhys rook over at Banbury when Eustace Fiennes left to become Governor of the Seychelles.
Rhys was the son of a judge. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. He became a barrister. He served in the Welsh Guards as a lieutenant-colonel. He was wounded in World War One and won the D.S.O. He served as a military attache in Tehran and aided the Russians against the Turks. In 1917 he was working at the War office on Movements and Railways. He was created a baronet in 1918.
Rhys received the coupon in 1918 and was elected unopposed. He became parliamentary secretary at the Ministry of Transport but soon fell out with the Minister Eric Geddes and resigned.
In 1922 Rhys became Recorder of Cardiff but was unopposed at the necessary by-election.
Rhys stood down in 1922. In 1923 he declined an invitation to stand against Ramsay McDonald at Aberavon.
In 1931 there was a by-election at Pontypridd. Rhys tried to get the Liberal candidate to make certain anti-socialist pledges. When he refused, Rhys came out in support of the Tory candidate.
In the late forties he became involved in a dispute with the local health authority over the use of his house as a hospital.
He died in 1955 aged 89. His son Brandon became a Tory MP.
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