1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Wigan Constituency – Biography of Williams

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Wigan

CANDIDATE : Williams

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. W. Williams was returned at a by-election in 1948. He is 42, the son of a South Wales miner, and qualified as a solicitor. Partner in a law firm until 1936, he became solicitor to the Durham Mineworkers’ Union and is now solicitor to the National Union of Mineworkers. He was a member of the commission which inquired into the Nigerian disorders in 1949.

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