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The Right HonourableThe Lord Anderson of SwanseaPC DL


Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee
In office 16 July 1997 – 12 July 2005
Preceded by	David Howell
Succeeded by	Mike Gapes
Member of Parliament for Swansea East
In office 11 October 1974 – 11 April 2005
Preceded by	Neil McBride
Succeeded by	Sian James
Member of Parliament for Monmouth
In office 31 March 1966 – 18 June 1970
Preceded by	Peter Thorneycroft
Succeeded by	Sir John Stradling Thomas
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 28 June 2005 Life Peerage

Personal details
Born	(1939-06-17) 17 June 1939 (age 85) Swansea
Nationality	Welsh
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	Swansea University

Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea, PC, DL (born 17 June 1939, in Swansea) is a British Labour Party politician, who was one of the longest-serving Members of Parliament in recent years, his service totalling 34 years.

Education

Anderson was educated at Brynmill Primary School in Swansea, Swansea Grammar School (now known as Bishop Gore School) and Swansea University.

Political career

He entered the House of Commons in 1966 for Monmouth until being defeated in 1970 by the Conservative John Stradling Thomas.

From 1971 to 1974, he was a resident in Kensington and Chelsea and councillor in a neighbouring borough.

He then re-entered the Commons in October 1974, as MP for Swansea East. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 2000, and retired from Parliament at the 2005 general election.

In the 2005 Dissolution Honours, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Anderson of Swansea, of Swansea in the County of West Glamorgan. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of West Glamorgan in January 2006. Anderson belongs to the Labour Friends of Israel lobby group.

References

"No. 43944". The London Gazette. 5 April 1966. p. 3947.
"No. 46374". The London Gazette. 15 October 1974. p. 8992.
"Privy Counsellors". Privy Council Office. Archived from the original on 13 July 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
"No. 57692". The London Gazette. 4 July 2005. p. 8639.
"No. 57889". The London Gazette. 1 February 2006. p. 1433.
"LFI Supporters in Parliament". Labour Friends of Israel. 23 March 2018.

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byPeter Thorneycroft	Member of Parliament for Monmouth 1966–1970	Succeeded bySir John Stradling Thomas
Preceded byNeil McBride	Member of Parliament for Swansea East Oct 1974–2005	Succeeded bySian James

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