William Cove
William George Cove (21 May 1888 – 15 March 1963) was a British politician. He served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) from 1923 to 1959.
Cove was born in Halifax Terrace, Middle Rhondda, to Edwin and Elizabeth Cove. His father, a miner, was born in Berkeley in Gloucestershire and was among the thousands from the west of England who migrated to the Rhondda Valleys at the end of the nineteenth century to seek work in the rapidly expanding coal industry. His mother was a native of Aberdare.[1] Cove trained as a teacher and in 1911 was employed as a teacher by Rhondda Urban Council.
Cove was first elected to
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
.
Cove has been neglected by historians and he does not feature in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
References
- ^ "1891 Wales Census". Ancestry (subscription required). Retrieved 18 September 2020.
- ^ Howard 1996, p. 77.
Sources
Books and Journals
- Howard, Chris (1996). "'The Focus of the Mute Hopes of a Whole Class'. Ramsay Macdonald and Aberavon, 1922-29" (PDF). Llafur: Journal of Welsh People's History. 7 (1): 68–77.
Other sources
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1979)