William Brace

William Brace PC (23 September 1865 - 12 October 1947), was a Welsh Labour MP and a member of the Lloyd George Coalition Government as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1916 to 1919.

Brace was born in Risca ["The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales".John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg79 ISBN 9780708319536] and educated at board school. Brace was an early advocate of a single union for all of Britain's colliers, an issue in which he clashed with William Abraham. In 1898 he became the first vice-president of the South Wales Miners Federation a post he would hold as president between 1912-1915. In 1903 he applied to be the Labour candidate for South Glamorgan but the party did not think a Labour candidate could win the seat [http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/research/smg/ArticlesRoger.htm] .

He was elected MP in 1906 for South Glamorganshire, and from 1918 sat for Abertillery. He resigned from the House of Commons in 1920. He became a permanent official in the Ministry of Labour.

He was made a Privy Councoillor in 1916.

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