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Thomas Artemus Jones
His Honour Sir Thomas Artemus Jones LLD, (1871 – 15 October 1943), was a Welsh barrister, judge, journalist, nationalist and Liberal Party politician who campaigned for the Welsh language. Life Jones was born in Denbigh, the youngest of six sons of stonemason Thomas Jones. In 1927 he married Mildred Mary David, who also practised as a barrister.‘JONES, His Honour Sir Thomas Artemus’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201accessed 4 Oct 2015/ref>Obituary: Sir Thomas Artemus Jones. ''North Wales Weekly News'', 21 October 1943, page 4. After leaving school at sixteen, Jones worked as a journalist, first in North Wales, before moving to Manchester, then London. Here he was on the parliamentary staff of The Daily Telegraph and The Daily News. Jones died in Bangor on 15 October 1943, aged 72. Legal career Jones was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1901, after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Artemus Jones
His Honour Sir Thomas Artemus Jones LLD, (1871 – 15 October 1943), was a Welsh barrister, judge, journalist, nationalist and Liberal Party politician who campaigned for the Welsh language. Life Jones was born in Denbigh, the youngest of six sons of stonemason Thomas Jones. In 1927 he married Mildred Mary David, who also practised as a barrister.‘JONES, His Honour Sir Thomas Artemus’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201accessed 4 Oct 2015/ref>Obituary: Sir Thomas Artemus Jones. ''North Wales Weekly News'', 21 October 1943, page 4. After leaving school at sixteen, Jones worked as a journalist, first in North Wales, before moving to Manchester, then London. Here he was on the parliamentary staff of The Daily Telegraph and The Daily News. Jones died in Bangor on 15 October 1943, aged 72. Legal career Jones was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1901, after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cymru Fydd
The Cymru Fydd (The Wales to Come; ) movement was founded in 1886 by some of the London Welsh. Some of its main leaders included David Lloyd George (later Prime Minister), J. E. Lloyd, O. M. Edwards, T. E. Ellis (leader, MP for Merioneth, 1886–1899), Beriah Gwynfe Evans and Alfred Thomas. Initially it was a purely London-based society, later expanding to cities in England with a large Welsh population. The founders of Cymru Fydd were influenced by William Ewart Gladstone, who himself lived in Hawarden, Wales, and the nationalist movement in Ireland, although the movement also drew upon other ideas, including a sense of imperial mission as preached by John Ruskin and a programme of social and political reform promoted by Robert Owen, Arnold Toynbee and the Fabian Society. This was therefore in stark contrast to Irish Nationalism, under Charles Stewart Parnell and others, which sought separation from British political structures. The movement resembled the cultural nationalism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secretary Of State For Wales
The secretary of state for Wales ( cy, ysgrifennydd gwladol Cymru), also referred to as the Welsh secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Wales Office. The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. The officeholder works alongside the other Wales Office ministers. The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for Wales. The position is currently held by David Davies having being appointed by Rishi Sunak in October 2022. Creation In the first half of the 20th century, a number of politicians had supported the creation of the post of Secretary of State for Wales as a step towards home rule for Wales. A post of Minister of Welsh Affairs was created in 1951 under the home secretary and was upgraded to minister of state level in 1954. The Labour Party proposed the creation of a Welsh Office run by a Secretary of State for Wales in their manifesto for the 1959 general electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 University Of Wales By-election
The 1943 University of Wales by-election was a parliamentary by-election held in the United Kingdom between 25 and 29 January 1943 for the House of Commons constituency of University of Wales. Previous MP The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Liberal Member of Parliament (MP), Ernest Evans (1885–1965) had been appointed a county court Judge in 1942. Evans was admitted to the bar in 1910 and became a King's Counsel (KC) in 1937. After serving as private secretary to the prime minister David Lloyd George, he was elected as Coalition Liberal MP for Cardiganshire at a by-election in 1921. He held the seat at the 1922 general election as a National Liberal candidate, but was defeated standing as a Liberal at the 1923 general election by the Independent Liberal Rhys Hopkin Morris. Evans did not stand again in Cardiganshire, but at the 1924 general election he defeated the Christian pacifist George Maitland Lloyd Davies to win the University of Wales consti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William John Gruffydd
William John Gruffydd (14 February 1881 – 29 September 1954) was a Welsh scholar, poet, writer and editor, and the last Member of Parliament to represent the University of Wales seat. Gruffydd was elected to Parliament as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the University of Wales seat on 29 January 1943 after the sitting MP Ernest Evans became a County Court Judge. Gruffydd's opponent in the by-election was Plaid's Saunders Lewis, and he had effectively split the Welsh-speaking community. He was comfortably re-elected in the 1945 general election and sat until the abolition of university seats in 1950. He did not stand again for Parliament. Historians' judgment The 1945 general election brought a reduction in Liberal strength in the House of Commons and was particularly savage for its leadership. Sir Archibald Sinclair the party leader lost his seat in Caithness and Sutherland, the Chief Whip Sir Percy Harris and William Beveridge were also beaten. In fact apart from G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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