Thomas Williams (UK politician)

Thomas Williams (UK politician)

Sir (William) Thomas Williams, QC (22 September 1915 - 28 February 1986) was a British Labour Co-operative politician.

Williams was educated at University College, Cardiff and St. Catherine's College, Oxford. He was President of the South Wales University Students' Union in 1939. He was a Baptist minister and a chaplain with the Royal Air Force for returned prisoners of war. He became a barrister, called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn, and a Queen's Counsel, and was bursar and a tutor at Manchester College, Oxford.

Williams was Member of Parliament for Hammersmith South from a 1949 by-election to 1955, Baron's Court from 1955 to 1959, and Warrington from a 1961 by-election. Williams served as parliamentary private secretary to the Attorney-General from 1964.

In 1981 Williams, who had continued working as a barrister throughout his time in Parliament, was appointed a High Court Judge. This appointment obliged him to vacate his seat and led to the famous by-election at which Roy Jenkins became the first Parliamentary candidate for the Social Democratic Party. It was suggested in "Private Eye" that the appointment was deliberate because the Warrington constituency would be difficult for the SDP to win.

References

*"Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979"
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