David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore

David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore
The Right Honourable
The Lord Ogmore
PC
Member of Parliament for Croydon South
In office
1945–1950
Preceded by Herbert Williams
Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Constituency Croydon South
Personal details
Born 22 November 1903(1903-11-22)
Bridgend, Wales
Died 30 August 1976(1976-08-30) (aged 72)
Political party Labour Party, Liberal Party

David Rees Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore, PC, TD (22 November 1903 – 30 August 1976) was a Welsh politician.

Rees-Williams was born in Bridgend, Wales. He qualified as a solicitor in 1929 and married and had three children. Commissioned into the 6th (Territorial Army) Battalion, Welch Regiment, he was promoted Captain in 1936 and Major in 1938, by which time his battalion had become a searchlight unit. He transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1940, when all searchlight units did so, and ended the Second World War as a Lieutenant-Colonel.

Rees-Williams was elected Labour Member of Parliament for Croydon South in 1945, defeating the incumbent MP, Sir Herbert Williams. In the government he was a minister in the Colonial Office, travelling to East Asia to consider the movements towards independence. His seat was redistributed at the end of the Parliament and he narrowly lost the successor seat at the 1950 general election and was raised to the peerage as Baron Ogmore, of Bridgend in the County of Glamorgan, on 5 July 1950. He served as Minister of Civil Aviation in 1951 and was made a Privy Councillor the same year. Lord Ogmore was President of the London Welsh Trust, which runs the London Welsh Centre, Gray's Inn Road, from 1955 until 1959.[1]

Lord Ogmore joined the Liberal Party in 1959 and served as Liberal Party President, 1963 - 1964.

Lord Ogmore's daughter, Elizabeth Rees-Williams, married the actors Sir Richard Harris and Sir Rex Harrison, the businessman Peter Aitken, and more recently Jonathan Aitken, the former Conservative MP.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Herbert Williams
Member of Parliament for Croydon South
19451950
Constituency abolished
Political offices
Preceded by
Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
1947–1950
Succeeded by
Thomas Fotheringham-Cook
Preceded by
The Lord Pakenham
Minister of Civil Aviation
1951
Succeeded by
John Maclay
Party political offices
Preceded by
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President of the Liberal Party
1963–1964
Succeeded by
Roger Fulford
Preceded by
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President of the Welsh Liberal Party
?–1970
Succeeded by
Rhys Lloyd
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Ogmore
1950–1976
Succeeded by
Gwilym Rees Rees-Williams


References

  1. ^ "Our Former Presidents: London Welsh Centre". London Welsh Centre website. London Welsh Centre. 2010. http://www.londonwelsh.org/archives/1796. Retrieved 4 February 2011. 

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