Tag: 1979 Welsh referendum

• Emlyn Hooson (1925–2012)

  

  The Barrister Who Carried Welsh Liberalism Through Its Leanest Years In the long aftermath of Lloyd George, Welsh Liberalism did not collapse in a single dramatic moment. Rather, it diminished gradually, election by election, chapel by chapel, until it seemed less a living political force than a surviving memory. Emlyn Hooson matters because he refused…

  Antony David Davies

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• David Gibson-Watt (1918-2002) of Doldowlod Hall

  

  Land, Service, Unionism, and the Passing of a Governing Tradition in Mid-Wales James David Gibson-Watt, later Baron Gibson-Watt, occupies a distinctive place in the political and social history of twentieth-century Wales. He was not merely a Conservative politician associated with Radnorshire, but a representative of a governing culture rooted in landownership, military service, and paternalistic…

  Antony David Davies

  Politics

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