Monday, 25 June 2018
1950 Ernest Evans
Constituency : Cardiganshire 1921-23, University of Wales 1924-43
Ernest was elected to succeed Matthew Vaughan-Davies who had been given a peerage specifically to allow Ernest a route into Parliament. He was opposed by the former Carmarthen Boroughs MP, Llewellyn Williams, but won fairly comfortably.
Ernest was born in Aberystwyth. His father was Clerk to Cardiganshire County Council. He was educated at Llandovery College and Cambridge. He was President of the Union in 1909. He became a barrister and specialised in agricultural law. He served in France with the Royal Army Service Corps from 1915 and reached the rank of captain.From 1918 he acted as Lloyd George's private secretary.
In 1922 Ernest was again opposed by an Asquithian, this time Rhys Hopkin-Morris who ran him close. When the Liberal party reunited in 1923 Hopkin-Morris and his supporters refused to recognise Ernest's claim to the seat and Hopkin-Morris defeated him standing as an Independent Liberal.
In 1924 Ernest switched to the University of Wales seat where he defeated the Labour incumbent who had been elected as a Christian Pacifist candidate. He easily retained the seat in 1929, 1931 and 1935.
Ernest stood down in 1943 when he became a county court judge. He retired in 1957.
He died in 1965 aged 79.
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