Richard Edwards (Welsh politician)

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Richard Edwards
Richard Edwards, former Labour AM.jpg
Edwards in 2000
Member of the Welsh Assembly
for Preseli Pembrokeshire
In office
6 May 1999 – 1 May 2003
Preceded byNew Assembly
Succeeded byTamsin Dunwoody
Personal details
Born (1956-08-25) 25 August 1956 (age 65)
Llanelli, Wales
Political partyLabour
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham

Richard Edwards (born 25 August 1956 in Llanelli) is a former Welsh Labour politician who was a Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Preseli Pembrokeshire from 1999 to 2003. Before politics he worked in local government and was a political researcher.

Background[]

He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen and holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a member of Unison.

He is a cousin of BBC Newsreader Huw Edwards.[1]

Political career[]

He was Mayor of Carmarthen in 1997. Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Preseli Pembrokeshire from 1999 to 2003. Shortly after being selected as a candidate he was diagnosed with leukemia, he was elected in 1999 and stood down at the 2003 election.[2]

In the First Assembly, he was Chair of the Local Government and Environment Committee, then the Environment, Planning and Transport Committee from March 2000.

References[]

  1. ^ Morgan, Rhodri (2017). A Political Life in Wales and Westminster (First ed.). University of Wales Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-1-78683-147-7.
  2. ^ Morgan, Rhodri (2017). A Political Life in Wales and Westminster (First ed.). University of Wales Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-1-78683-147-7.

Offices held[]

Senedd
Preceded by
(new post) 		Assembly Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire
1999 – 2003 		Succeeded by
Tamsin Dunwoody
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