Charles Edwards (Labour politician)

British politician

For other people named Charles Edwards, see Charles Edwards (disambiguation).

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| (1867-02-19)19 February 1867
Died| 15 June 1954(1954-06-15) (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

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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.

* Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source] [better source needed]

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