Ness Edwards
Ness Edwards (5 April 1897 – 3 May 1968) was a trade unionist and Welsh Labour Party politician: he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Caerphilly from July 1939 until his death.
He was born in Abertillery, Monmouthshire, Wales, the second of six children of Onesimus Edwards Snr and his wife Ellen.
A coal miner and trade unionist, he started work at the Penybont colliery on 5 April 1910, his 13th birthday.[1] By the age of 17 he was elected chairman of the miners lodge at the Arriel Griffin colliery.
In 1917, at the age of 20, he was imprisoned as a
He was elected to Parliament at the
At the beginning of World War II Edwards was instrumental in helping Czech miners escape the Sudetenland.
An associate of
In 1925 Ness Edwards married Elina Victoria Williams, one of six children of Richard Williams, a
Ness Edwards died at
Works
- (1920) "Some Thoughts on Tactics" Workers' Dreadnought Vol. VII No. 18 24 July 1920
- (1938) History of the South Wales Miners' Federation; vol. 1. Lawrence & Wishart,
- (1958) "Is this the road?"; Cambrian Press, Hughes (1 Jan. 1956)
References
- ^ "Ness Edwards". Archives Hub. JISC. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
- ^ Kenneth O. Morgan Revolution to Devolution: Reflections on Welsh Democracy (2014) Ch. 5, pp 162-3
- ^ a b "Ness Edwards dies, aged 71". South Wales Echo. 3 May 1968. p. 1.
- Davies, J., (2001). EDWARDS, NESS (1897 - 1968), trade unionist and Member of Parliament. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 19 Dec 2021, from https://biography.wales/article/s2-EDWA-NES-1897. (With links to photographs and election literature held by the National Library of Wales)
- ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]