Charles Edwards (Labour politician)

The Right Honourable
Sir Charles Edwards
CBE JP
The Right Honourable Sir Charles Edwards CBE JP
	Edwards
Member of Parliament; for Bedwellty
	In office; 1918–1950
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Harold Finch
Personal details
Born	19 February 1867
Died	15 June 1954 (aged 87)
Political party	Labour
Children	One son and one daughter
Parents	John Edwards (father); Catherine Edwards (mother);
Education	National 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.^[1]

References

^ 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.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Bedwellty 1918–1950	Succeeded by Sir Harold Finch
Political offices
Preceded by David Margesson	Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Government Chief Whip) (with James Stuart) 1940–1942	Succeeded by James Stuart and William Whiteley

[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.

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