Thursday, 15 November 2018
2090 William Jones
Constituency : Carmarthen 1928-9
William took back Carmarthen after the defector Alfred Mond was elevated to the peerage. He won by just 47 votes over Labour in a three-cornered contest. William made clear in his campaign that he did not favour land nationalisation but did support security of tenure for farmers. He was the last Liberal MP who was older than the party.
William was a local businessman. He owned a steelworks in Swansea and was a director of a gas company and a colliery firm. He was both county and district councillor. When Mond defected over the Liberals' new land policy in 1926 there was an internal contest to fight him at the next election. William was himself an opponent of the land policy and triumphed over Richard Evans, a Lloyd George man, in the selection contest despite being in his late sixties.
William lost the seat to Labour by a fairly narrow majority in a three-cornered contest in 1929.
He died in 1934 aged 76.
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