Penry Williams (5 September 1866 – 26 June 1945) was a

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politician in

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. He was born in Middlesbrough, the son of Edward Williams, a Cleveland ironmaster. He was a brother of

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MP. He was elected at the January 1910 general election as the

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for the usually Liberal Middlesbrough constituency in the

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. When the constituency was divided at the 1918 general election, he was elected for the new

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constituency, but was defeated at the 1922 general election by the

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candidate John Wesley Brown. With rifts in the Liberal Party healed, the party's fortunes recovered at the 1923 general election, and Williams regained his seat. His return was short-lived, because at the 1924 general election he was unseated in a close three-way contest by the Labour Party candidate

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. At the 1929 general election, he stood as the

candidate for Berwick-on-Tweed where he came close to gaining the seat from the Conservatives.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Penry 1866 births 1945 deaths Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1923–1924