Brandon Rhys-Williams
Sir Brandon Meredith Rhys-Williams, 2nd Baronet (14 November 1927 – 18 May 1988) was a British Conservative politician.
Parliamentary career
Rhys-Williams contested Pontypridd in 1959, and Ebbw Vale in the 1960 by-election following the death of Aneurin Bevan as well as the same constituency in the following general election. He was defeated each time in these safe Labour seats.
He was elected a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Kensington South by-election, 1968, representing that seat until February 1974, then for Kensington from February 1974 until his death in 1988 aged 60. He was also a Member of the European Parliament from 1973 until 1984.
The by-election following Rhys-Williams' death saw Kensington held by the Conservative Dudley Fishburn.
Family
His father, Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams had been a Liberal MP. His mother Juliet Rhys-Williams was another Liberal politician who later joined the Conservative Party and became a member of the Conservative Monday Club.
References
- The Times Guide to the House of Commons, Times Newspapers Ltd, 1987
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- The National Library for Wales:Digital of Welsh Biography (Sir Brandon Rhys-Williams)
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External links
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- 1988 deaths
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
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- UK MPs 1970–74
- UK MPs 1974
- UK MPs 1974–79
- UK MPs 1979–83
- UK MPs 1983–87
- UK MPs 1987–92
- Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- Members of the European Parliament for English constituencies
- Conservative Party (UK) MEPs
- MEPs for the United Kingdom 1973–79
- MEPs for the United Kingdom 1979–84
- Conservative MP (UK), 1920s birth stubs
- British MEP stubs
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