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1973 South Glamorgan County Council Election
The 1973 South Glamorgan County Council election was the first election to South Glamorgan County Council and was held in April 1973. It was followed by the 1977 election. Candidates Conservative and Labour candidates contested the vast majority of seats. In contrast there were relatively few Liberal and Plaid Cymru candidates. In Cardiff, many members of the previous County Borough Council sought election to both the new South Glamorgan authority and the new Cardiff City Council (where the elections were held a few weeks later). Outcome Glamorgan was the only county to be divided as a result of local government re-organization in England and Wales from 1 April 1974. Previous proposals proposed by the Labour Party had envisaged a division into two new counties, East and West. However, the Conservatives favoured the creation of South Glamorgan given that they entertained hopes of winning control. The first elections were in May 1973 and councillors would act in a shadow capacity f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Glamorgan County Council
South Glamorgan County Council ( cy, Cyngor Sir De Morgannwg) was the local government authority that administered the county of South Glamorgan, Wales from its creation in 1974 until its abolition in 1996. History Local government in England and Wales was reorganised in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. The old administrative county of Glamorgan was divided into three new counties and Glamorgan County Council was abolished. The new county of South Glamorgan was created covering the former county borough of Cardiff, (which had been independent from Glamorgan County Council), together with the southern parts of Glamorgan and the parish of St Mellons from Monmouthshire. South Glamorgan County Council came into existence on 1 April 1974. There were two lower-tier districts of Wales, district councils within South Glamorgan: Cardiff City Council (later Cardiff Council) and the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council (later the Vale of Glamorgan Council). Ahead of the 1970 United King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emyr Currie-Jones
Emyr Currie-Jones CBE (1917–2008) was a local Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician in Cardiff, Wales. He was Chairman of South Glamorgan County Council and known for his role in introducing Welsh-language education in Cardiff. He has been described as "an outstanding example of a local councillor who steered Welsh-medium education through many a political storm." Background Currie-Jones was born on 17 January 1917 in Caernarfon, North Wales, to Grace Currie and Lewis Jones. He was a fluent Welsh language, Welsh-speaker and went to the Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen, Caernarvon County School before graduating from University College, Aberystwyth, where he shared accommodation with Emyr Humphreys. Currie-Jones subsequently became a solicitor in Cardiff. He married Mary Catherine Jones. Legal career Currie-Jones became a solicitor in Cardiff and was prosecuting solicitor for the Cardiff City Council, 1905-1974, Cardiff City Council from 1950 to 1955. He became a partner in the lega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brooks, Baron Brooks Of Tremorfa
John Edward "Jack" Brooks, Baron Brooks of Tremorfa DL (12 April 1927 – 4 March 2016) was a Welsh politician and boxing functionary. Early life The son of Edward George Brooks and Rachel White, he was born in 1927 and educated at Coleg Harlech. Career Between 1966 and 1984, Brooks was Secretary of the Labour party for Cardiff South-East constituency. In the February 1974 and October 1974 general election, he contested Barry for Labour. Brooks was an elected Cardiff councillor for the Splott ward."Jack Brooks" '''', 25 February 2005. Retrieved 2013-05-04. He became leader of |
Dafydd Huws
Dafydd John Lewys Huws (29 November 1935 – 3 July 2011) was a Welsh politician and psychiatrist who was also a pioneer and advocate of wind turbines in Wales."Marw’r seiciatrydd Dr Dafydd Huws" (in Welsh), '''', 3 July 2011. Career Huws was a medical student in and spent his career as a psychiatrist in the area. He developed a special interest in how people cope with stress and adversity. Huws became medical director of Cardiff Community NHS Trust and was regularly sought for talks and media interviews about current topi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Leonard, Baron Leonard
John Denis Leonard, Baron Leonard, OBE (19 October 1909 – 17 July 1983) was a British Labour Party politician. Leonard was born in Manorhamilton, Ireland, the son of an Irish journalist. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1939, where he set up an engineering firm in Cardiff. He was elected to the Cardiff City Council in 1970, and to the South Glamorgan County Council in 1974, serving as its chairman between 1976 and 1977. He was appointed an OBE in 1976. On 2 May 1978, Leonard was made a life peer, as Baron Leonard, of the City of Cardiff in the County of South Glamorgan. He served as a Lord in Waiting between 1978 and 1979. He was selected as High Sheriff of South Glamorgan The office of High Sheriff of South Glamorgan was established in 1974 as part of the creation of the county of South Glamorgan in Wales following the Local Government Act 1972. Together with the High Sheriff of West Glamorgan and the High Sheriff ... for 1979, but was excused from serving upon hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Terlezki
Stefan Terlezki, (29 October 1927 – 21 February 2006) was a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cardiff West from 1983 to 1987. Terlezki was born in Antonivka, a village near the town of Tlumach in what is now western Ukraine but was then part of Poland. Terlezki experienced life in both Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, which made him a powerful voice against totalitarian governments. Early life Terlezki was brought up in the nearby farming community of Antonivka, where his first teacher at the village school was the Ukrainian poet Mariyka Pidhiryanka. His father Oleksa Terletskyj was a peasant farmer who also worked at a brickworks, where he organised a sit-in protest for shorter working hours. This led to a period of imprisonment by the Polish authorities. Wartime experiences Western Ukraine was occupied by Russian forces in 1939 and then annexed to the Soviet Union. One of Terlezki's uncles was classified as a kulak after pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanishen (electoral Ward)
Llanishen is the name of an electoral ward in the north of Cardiff, capital city of Wales. It covers the community of Llanishen (and until 2022 Thornhill, which was created from the northern half of Llanishen in 2016). Llanishen is bordered to the north by the Lisvane and Thornhill ward, to the west by Rhiwbina, to the south by the Heath ward and to the southeast by Cyncoed. The Llanishen ward elects two (formerly four) councillors to Cardiff Council and has been represented by a mixture of Conservative and Labour councillors. Between 2014 and 2017 Llanishen councillor Phil Bale was the leader of Cardiff Council. On 2 August 2019 Phil Bale announced he was stepping down as councillor triggering a by-election on 21 November 2019. Labour subsequently lost its seat to the Conservative Party. 2020 boundary review Following a Cardiff boundary review, intended to give better electoral parity, the new community of Thornhill was transferred from the Llanishen ward to the neighbouri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Morgan (priest And Politician)
Reverend Robert (Bob) Harman Morgan (28 October 1928 – 23 November 2011) was a Church in Wales vicar and Labour Party politician, who became leader of South Glamorgan County Council. He was the father of Labour politician Eluned Morgan. Early life and education Morgan was born on 28 October 1928 and grew up in Tremorfa, Cardiff, until the Second World War forced his family to evacuate to Aberdare where he went to the local grammar school. After the war he returned to Cardiff and, after spending National Service in the RAF, got a job as an insurance clerk. With ambitions to become a social worker he took two A-levels in six months, before graduating in Politics and Economics at University College, Cardiff. He went on to the theological college at Mirfield in Yorkshire before being ordained in 1957 to a curacy at St Augustine's Church, Penarth where he served until 1961. He married his wife, Elaine, in 1963. Career In 1961 Morgan became curate on the large Cardiff housing es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central (Cardiff Electoral Ward)
Central was the name of an original electoral ward in the centre of the county borough and, from 1905, city of Cardiff, Wales. It elected representatives to the Cardiff County Borough Council and, from 1974, South Glamorgan County Council. The ward ceased to exist in 1996. Description and background In July 1890, following the creation of Cardiff County Borough Council, Central was a new electoral ward created, one of the ten in the county borough. The ward was bordered to the west by the River Taff, to the east by the Taff Vale Railway and to the south by the Great Western Railway line. The Riverside ward lay on the other side of the River Taff, the Cathays ward to the northeast (of the Taff Vale Railway) and the South ward lay to the south. Before the electoral reforms of the 20th century, councillors were elected by burgesses i.e. ratepayers in the ward. The electorate of the Central ward in 1985 was 4217, increasing to 4908 in 1993. The Cathays ward was expanded to incorpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Dunleavy
Philip Dunleavy CBE (5 October 1915 - 13 January 1996) was a Labour Party councillor in Cardiff, Wales. He was Lord Mayor of Cardiff 1982-83 and leader of Cardiff City Council for five years.Tony Heat"OBITUARY: Philip Dunleavy" ''The Independent'', 18 January 1996. Retrieved 2013-04-29. Dunleavy was born in Cardiff and began working for the Post Office when he was 14 years old. He continued working for them until his retirement in 1975. As a Labour Party councillor, he served on Cardiff City Council from 1962 to 1983 and was Leader of the Council from 1974 to 1976 and 1979-82. He also served on South Glamorgan County Council from 1974 to 1981. In 1982 he became Lord Mayor of Cardiff. Dunleavy was awarded an OBE in 1978 and a CBE in 1983 for "services to local government in South Glamorgan". In January 1993 he was bestowed the honour of the Freedom of the City of Cardiff, one of only two people to receive this honour during the 1990s. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 South Glamorgan County Council Election
The second election to South Glamorgan County Council was held in May 1977. It was preceded by the 1973 election and followed by the 1981 election. Boundary changes There were no boundary changes but the balance of representation in the Penarth wards appears to have changed with the North/Central ward gaining a seat and the West ward losing one. Candidates Conservative and Labour candidates contested the vast majority of seats. In contrast with four years previously there were more Liberal candidates together with a smaller number of Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru ( ; ; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left to left-wing, Welsh nationalist political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from the United Kingdom. Plaid wa ... candidates and Independents. Outcome When the authority was established the Conservatives had hoped to win control but failed to do so in 1973. However, they won control at this electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baruc (electoral Ward)
Baruc is the name of an electoral ward in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It covers the southern area of the town, including Barry Island, Cold Knap and the area around Romilly Park. The ward elects three county councillors to the Vale of Glamorgan Council and three councillors to Barry Town Council. The ward is currently represented by Plaid Cymru. According to the 2011 census the population of the ward was 10,621. In 2022 the number of county councillors was increased from two, to three, as a result of recommendations from the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales. Election results On 4 May 2017 the Baruc ward re-elected two Plaid Cymru councillors to the County Council. On 15 May councillor Nic Hodges, also a town councillor, was elected as the first Plaid Cymru mayor of Barry, the first mayor to represent the Baruc ward for 35 years. 1973–1996 At the 1985, 1989 and 1993 county elections, prior to the creation of the Vale of Glamorgan co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
