Thursday, 14 June 2018
1939 Tudor Rees
Constituency : Barnstaple 1918-22, 1923-4
Tudor won Barnstaple in a straight fight with a Conservative. Both candidates were supporters of the government and it's unclear which , if either, of them, was given the coupon. In any case Tudor took the Coalition whip as soon as he got there. He campaigned on housing, reform of the jury system and a hard line on pacifists. He won by 602 votes.
Tudor was from Glamorgan. He was educated at the University of Wales. He was first a solicitor and then a barrister.He organised a recruiting campaign in World War One then joined up himself, serving as a captain in the Welsh Regiment. He was a devout Anglican who contemplated holy orders but supported disestablishment.
Tudor never spoke in Parliament.
Tudor was narrowly defeated in 1922 as a straight Liberal but recaptured the seat in 1923 despite Labour's intervention. He generally voted with the Tories during the 1924 Parliament. He lost fairly narrowly in 1924 in a straight fight with the Tory.
In 1939, Tudor became a judge. He published a number of legal works.
He died in 1956 aged 75.
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