Friday, 4 May 2018
1903 Charles Breese
Constituency : Caernarvonshire 1918-22
Caernarvonshire witnessed one of the most fraught contests of the whole election. Charles was a friend of Lloyd George and stood as a Coalition Liberal. The MP for the former Eifion seat, Ellis Davies remained in the Asquithian camp and set up a new combined Liberal Association to nominate him. Many of the local Liberal clubs rejected this and set up a new adoption process deciding between Charles, Davies and R T Jones from the Quarrymen's Union. Charles came through that but all three men stood ( Jones as Independent Labour, Davies as Independent Liberal ) with Davies coming a poor third.
Charles was the son of a solicitor who became Lloyd George's first employer and introduced him to Liberal politics. From 1889 , Charles joined him in the office as a qualified solicitor. He fought in World War One and reached the rank of Major. He was an Anglican. He was a Caernarvonshire county councillor and secretary of the Welsh National Liberal Council.
Charles served on the pensions Advisory Committee and in 1922 became PPS to Herbert Fisher at Education.
In 1922 , Charles lost to Jones fairly narrowly in a straight fight.
Charles was a keen archaeologist and antiquarian. He wrote two books on nationality and religion in Wales.
He died of a heart attack while out grouse shooting in 1932 aged 65.
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