Ivor Owen Thomas
Ivor Owen Thomas (5 December 1898 – 11 January 1982)[1] was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician.
Thomas was the son of Benjamin L. Thomas from Briton Ferry in South Wales.[2] He was educated at Vernon Place School in Briton Ferry. He was employed as a barber's lather boy,[3] and then at Gwalia Tinplate Works from 1912 to 1919, and then as a tinplate cleaner on the Great Western Railway from 1921 to 1923.[2] He won a scholarship to the Central Labour College in London, where he studied from 1923 to 1925, then worked at the head office of the National Union of Railwaymen until 1945.[3]
Thomas was a Labour Party councillor on Battersea Metropolitan Borough Council from 1928[3] or 1929[2] to 1945.[2] At the 1945 general election he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for The Wrekin in Shropshire.[4][5] He was re-elected in 1950[6] and 1951,[7] and held the seat until his defeat at the 1955 general election by the Conservative William Yates.[3]
He then returned to work at the NUR headquarters until 1958, and worked for British Rail at London Waterloo station from 1960 to 1965.
There is a road named after him in the village of St Georges, situated in Telford (formerly the Wrekin constituency).[citation needed]
Personal life
In 1929, Thomas married Beatrice Davis, daughter of William Davis.[3] They had one daughter.[3]
Beatrice died in 1978, and Thomas died in 1982, aged 83.[3]
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 5)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 37238. p. 4294. 24 August 1945. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 38851. p. 1040. 28 February 1950. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 39372. p. 5664. 30 October 1951. Retrieved 10 February 2011.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Ivor Owen Thomas
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for The Wrekin 1945 – 1955 |
Succeeded by William Yates |
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- 1898 births
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- Labour Party (UK) MPs
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- UK MPs 1945–50
- UK MPs 1950–51
- UK MPs 1951–55
- Members of Battersea Metropolitan Borough Council
- Labour Party (UK) councillors
- British trade unionists
- People from Briton Ferry
- Great Western Railway people
