Thursday, 21 June 2018
1946 David Matthews
Constituency : Swansea East 1919-22
Coalition nerves were steadied when David held on to Swansea East following the death of Thomas Williams, although with a reduced majority.
David was a town councillor in Swansea and a well known civic figure. He was a nonconformist and something of a Welsh nationalist. He was a merchant and a director of fuel and tinplate companies.
In 1920, David was one of a group of MPs calling for a Secretary of State for Wales and a year later tried to introduce a private bill to that effect.
David stood down in 1922.
He died in 1960 aged 91.
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