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The Right HonourableSir Charles EdwardsCBE JP
Edwards
Member of Parliament
for Bedwellty
In office
1918–1950
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byHarold Finch
Personal details
Born(1867-02-19)19 February 1867
Died15 June 1954(1954-06-15) (aged 87)
Political partyLabour
ChildrenOne son and one daughter
Parents
  • John Edwards (father)
  • Catherine Edwards (mother)
EducationNational School, Llangunllo, Radnorshire

Sir Charles Edwards (19 February 1867 – 15 June 1954) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Edwards initially served as an Assistant Miners' Agent in the Blackwood Offices of the South Wales Miners' Federation where he and his wife lived in the attached housing accommodation. Afterwards they moved to Risca.

Edwards was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the newly-created Bedwellty constituency in Monmouthshire. He held the seat until he retired from Parliament at the 1950 general election.

Edwards was made a Privy Councillor in 1940. And from 1940 to 1942 he was government chief whip in the war-time Coalition Government.

References

  1. James Chuter Ede (1987). Labor and the Wartime Coalition: From the Diary of James Chuter Ede, 1941–1945. Historians' Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-9508900-3-6.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency Member of Parliament for Bedwellty
1918–1950 		Succeeded bySir Harold Finch
Political offices
Preceded byDavid Margesson Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
(Government Chief Whip)
(with James Stuart)
1940–1942 		Succeeded byJames Stuart and
William Whiteley
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