Category: Politics & Public Life
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David Davies, 1st Baron Davies of Llandinam (1880–1944): Wealth, Duty and the Search for an Enforceable Peace
David Davies inherited almost everything that late Victorian Wales could bestow upon a young man: wealth, land, industrial influence, political opportunity and one of the most recognisable names…
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Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen (1836–1905): Land, Liberalism and Public Duty in Victorian Montgomeryshire
Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen belonged to a generation of Welsh public men who stood between two political worlds. His authority rested partly upon land, family connection and social position,…
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Clement Davies (1884–1962): Liberal Leader and MP for Montgomeryshire
Clement Davies occupies an unusual place in the political history of Wales. He represented Montgomeryshire for almost thirty-three years, helped to bring down Neville Chamberlain’s government in 1940…
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David Gibson-Watt (1918–2002) of Doldowlod: War, Politics and Welsh Unionism
Some political lives belong so completely to their period that they become difficult to understand once that period has passed. James David Gibson-Watt, later Baron Gibson-Watt of the…
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The Election That Broke an Inheritance: Montgomeryshire and the Liberal Defeat of 2010
For much of the twentieth century, Montgomeryshire provided one of the clearest surviving connections between modern party politics and the older culture of Liberal Wales. Its representatives changed,…
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The Decline of Liberal Wales: A Political Inheritance Without a Party
For more than half a century, Liberalism was the dominant language of Welsh public life. It united Nonconformist religion, popular education, land reform, temperance, civic improvement and opposition…