David Price-White

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Lieutenant-Colonel David Archibald Price-White, TD (5 September 1906 – 6 March 1978) was a Welsh solicitor and Conservative Party politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Caernarvon Boroughs from 1945 to 1950.

Early life[]

His mother was Charlotte Bell (later Charlotte Price White), a suffrage pioneer, local councillor and activist [1]: 54, 55  while his father, Price Foulkes White (1873–1952) was an engineer at the Bangor Electrical Company[1]: 54  and Welsh international footballer.[2] David Price-White was educated in Bangor, first at Friars School and then at the University College of North Wales, before qualifying as a solicitor in 1932.[3] He joined the Territorial Army in 1928 [4] and became a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery (Territorial Army). By 1939 he had been promoted to Major.[5] During World War II he served with the British Army in France (at Dunkirk),[4] the Middle East, Italy and East Africa.[3] By 1944 he was a Lieutenant Colonel.[5]

Political career[]

Price-White was a local councillor in the Caernarfonshire County Council from 1939 until 1941, and also a member of the Bangor City Council.[4] He was elected at the general election in July 1945 as the MP for Caernarvon Boroughs.[6] His victory by a narrow margin of 336 votes ousted the Liberal MP Seaborne Davies, who had won the seat at a by-election in April that year, after long-serving David Lloyd George had been elevated to the peerage.[7]

When constituency boundaries were revised for the 1950 general election, Price-White stood in the new Conway county constituency, where he was defeated[8] by the Labour Party candidate William Elwyn Jones.

Later career[]

Price-White worked as a solicitor until 1956, with a break during the Second World War. In 1957 he was appointed to a position within the national electricity supply industry, as Principal Assistant at the Central Electricity Generating Board, Midland Regions Headquarters.[4][5] He resumed practice as a solicitor in 1968 until his death in 1978.[5]

Personal life[]

In 1934, Price-White married Gwyneth Harris, daughter of James Lewis Harris of Caernarvon[3] and they had two children, a boy (Andrew Stewart) and a girl (Carolyn Mary).[5] The family lived in Colwyn Bay.[4]

He died 6 March 1978.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Baldwin, Anne; Robinson, Jane; Clarke, Lesley (2018). From Suffrage to Citizenship - celebrating 100 pioneers (PDF). Women's Local Government Society. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  2. ^ Davies, Gareth; Garland, Ian (1991). Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players. Bridge Books. p. 211. ISBN 1-872424-11-2.
  3. ^ a b c Stenton, Michael; Lees, Stephens (1981). Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Volume IV, 1945–1979. Brighton: The Harvester Press. p. 301. ISBN 0-85527-335-6.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Jones, John Graham. "PRICE-WHITE, DAVID ARCHIBALD PRICE (1906-1978) Conservative politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e De Santis, Edward. "Lieutenant Colonel DAVID ARCHIBALD PRICE-WHITE, T.D. Royal Artillery (T.A.)". Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  6. ^ "No. 37238". The London Gazette. 24 August 1945. p. 4290.
  7. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 533. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
  8. ^ "The Defeated Clean Sweep At Colonial Office". The Times. London. 25 February 1950. p. 23.

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