Brandon Rhys-Williams
Sir Brandon Meredith Rhys-Williams, 2nd Baronet was a British Conservative politician.Family background
His father, Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, had been a Liberal MP. His mother, Juliet Rhys-Williams, was another Liberal politician who later joined the Conservative Party and became a member of the Conservative Monday Club. After his father's death, Brandon Rhys-Williams inherited his estate at Miskin.Parliamentary career
Rhys-Williams contested Pontypridd in 1959, and Ebbw Vale in the 1960 by-election following the death of Aneurin Bevan as well as the same constituency in the following general election. He was defeated each time in these safe Labour seats.
He was elected a Member of Parliament in the 1968 Kensington South by-election, representing that seat until February 1974, then for Kensington from February 1974 until his death in 1988 aged 60. He was also a Member of the European Parliament from 1973 until 1984.
The by-election following Rhys-Williams' death, from leukaemia, at the age of sixty, necessitated a by-election in which Kensington was held for the Conservatives by Dudley Fishburn.Archives
