Ted Williams (politician)
Sir Edward John Williams KCMG PC (1 July 1890 – 16 May 1963) was a British Labour Party politician and diplomat.
Williams was born in 1890 in Victoria, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, to Emanuel Williams and his wife Ada (née James). After attending school in Victoria and Hopkinstown, he started working at Waunllwyd colliery, Ebbw Vale, at the age of 12.[1]
Keen to educate himself, he rose to become secretary to a colliery company and in 1913 entered the Labour College in London as a student.[2] After three years, Williams was appointed a provincial lecturer for the college, though the Great War disrupted the college and left him unemployed. Forced to return to mining in 1917, he became checkweigher and in 1919 miners' agent to the Garw district of the South Wales Miners' Federation.[2]
He was elected as the MP for Ogmore at a by-election in May 1931, and represented the constituency until 1946. From 1946 to 1952 he served as High Commissioner to Australia.
References
- ^ John Graham Jones (2001). "WILLIAMS, Sir EDWARD JOHN (TED; 1890 - 1963), politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
- ^ a b 'Sir Edward Williams: A Long Career of Public Service', The Times, 18 May 1963, p. 10.
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