Moelwyn Hughes

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Moelwyn Hughes
Carmarthen
In office
26 March 1941 – 15 June 1945
Preceded byDaniel Hopkin
Succeeded byRhys Hopkin Morris
Personal details
Born
Goronwy Moelwyn Hughes[1]

(1897-10-06)6 October 1897
Cardigan, Wales
Died1 November 1955(1955-11-01) (aged 58)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLiberal (before 1935)
Labour (1935–55)
SpouseLouise Mary Greer
Children3
Parent(s)John Gruffyd Moelwyn Hughes
Anna Maria (Mya) Lewis
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
NicknameRonw

Goronwy "Ronw" Moelwyn Hughes, KC (6 October 1897 – 1 November 1955), known as Moelwyn Hughes was a Welsh lawyer and a Liberal and Labour politician who was elected to two short terms as a Member of Parliament (MP).

Early life

Born in

Presbyterian
minister who became Moderator of the General Assembly in 1936, and was a lyric poet, hymn writer, and philosopher. A pacifist and Liberal party supporter, he followed his son's later switch in political allegiance to Labour.

The younger Hughes was educated at council and county schools in Cardigan, at the

University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at Downing College, Cambridge, where he gained a First-Class Honours degree in Law.[2] His family moved to Birkenhead in 1917, and Hughes was elected there as a local councillor. In 1922 he entered the bar on the Northern Circuit, and was later appointed as a Lecturer in International Law at the London School of Economics. He was made a K.C. in 1943.[2]

Political career

At the

Cardiganshire constituency at the 1935 general election.[5][3]

He was elected to the

Carmarthen, following the resignation of Labour MP Major Daniel Hopkin MC.[3] However, at the 1945 general election, he lost the seat by 1,279 votes to the Liberal candidate Rhys Hopkin Morris
.

Hughes returned to Parliament at the 1950 general election, when he was elected as (MP) for the safe Labour seat of Islington North, in North London.[6] He represented the constituency for only one year, until he stepped down at the 1951 general election. A block of flats in Hilldrop Crescent, Holloway, in Islington North, is named Moelwyn Hughes Court.

Moelwyn Hughes Report

In March 1946 33 people were killed and hundreds injured at the Burnden Park grounds of Bolton Wanderers football club, who were playing Stoke City in an FA Cup match. Hughes was appointed to lead the official inquiry into the disaster, and his report recommended limitations on crowd sizes. An estimated 85,000 fans were present in a stadium with capacity for only 60,000.

Private life

Ronw's wife Louise Mary, eldest daughter of the judge

Arthur Greer, 1st Baron Fairfield
, survived him on his death in 1955 at the age of 58. They had two sons and one daughter.

Notes

  1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54020. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^
    Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 2022 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-900178-01-9
    .
  4. ^ Southport Liberal Association - The first 100 years
  5. ^ Silent film footage of his 1935 election campaign in Cardiganshire is available online at the Welsh "Gathering the Jewels" website
  6. ^ The Times' Guide to the House of Commons. 1950.

References

External links

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Carmarthen
1941–1945
 Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Islington North
1950–1951 		Succeeded by
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by
Humphrey D. Roberts
 President of the Aberystwyth Old Students' Association
1948–49 		Succeeded by
Dr E. Davies-Thomas
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