William Brace

William Brace (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^[1] 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 [1].

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 Councillor in 1916. He died in Newport aged 82.

References

^ The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales.John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg79 ISBN 9780708319536

Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages ^{[self-published source]} ^{[better source needed]}

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Windham Wyndham-Quin	Member of Parliament for South Glamorganshire 1906–1918	Succeeded by (constituency abolished)
Preceded by (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for Abertillery 1918–1920	Succeeded by George Barker
Political offices
Preceded by William Abraham	President of the South Wales Miners Federation 1912–1915	Succeeded by James Winstone

[1] The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales.John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg79 ISBN 9780708319536

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