Tom Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh
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Thomas Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh, PC (18 March 1888 – 29 March 1967[1]) was a British coal miner who became a Labour Party politician.[2]
Career
Born in Blackwell, Derbyshire,[3] Williams grew up in Swinton in Yorkshire, and began work in 1899 in Kilnhurst colliery.[3] He became involved in trade unionism and joined the Independent Labour Party, switching briefly to the British Socialist Party during World War I before joining the Labour Party. In 1918, he was elected as a Labour member of the Bolton-upon-Dearne Urban District Council.
He was elected at the 1922 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Don Valley,[1][4][5] and held the seat until he stepped down at the 1959 general election.[6]
In Parliament
In the First Labour Government, from January to October 1924, Williams was Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Noel Buxton, the Minister of Agriculture.[2] In the Second Labour Government from 1929 to 1931, he was PPS to the Minister of Labour, Margaret Bondfield.[2]
Williams first held ministerial office in Winston Churchill's wartime Coalition Government, when he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1940 to 1945,[2] serving under the Conservative minister Robert Hudson.[3] He was made a Privy Counsellor in August 1941.[7] In Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government, he was Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1945 to 1951,[2] and after Labour lost the 1951 general election he was the opposition spokesperson on Agriculture until 1959.[2]
After his retirement from the House of Commons in 1959, he was created a life peer on 2 February 1961 taking the title Baron Williams of Barnburgh, of Barnburgh in the West Riding of the County of York.[8][9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 32775. p. 8712. 8 December 1922. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
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- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 42231. p. 8889. 27 December 1960.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 42272. p. 933. 7 February 1961.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Tom Williams
- Portraits of Thomas ('Tom') Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh at the National Portrait Gallery, London
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Don Valley 1922–1959 |
Succeeded by Richard Kelley |
Political offices | ||
Preceded by | Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (with The Lord Moyne, to 1941; The Duke of Norfolk), 1941–1945 1940–1945 |
Succeeded by The Duke of Norfolk and Donald Scott |
Preceded by | Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries 1945–1951 |
Succeeded by Thomas Dugdale |
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