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- 1994-1995. (Creation)
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Cledwyn Hughes, Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos, (1916-2001), was a prominent Labour politician and Welshman.
Cledwyn Hughes, a native of Holyhead, a son of the manse, graduated in law from Aberystwyth in 1937, qualified as a solicitor in 1940, served in the RAF during the war and worked as a solicitor in Anglesey from 1946. After standing twice in the Labour interest against Lady Megan Lloyd George in 1945 and 1950, he captured Anglesey in 1951, thereafter serving continuously until his retirement in 1979. A fervent devolutionist, Hughes was the second Secretary of State for Wales, 1966-1968, succeeding the veteran Jim Griffiths, and pressing successfully to extend the powers and authority of the new department. He was also Minister of Agriculture, 1968-1970, and Chairman of the Labour Party, 1974-1979. Hughes held a large number of offices within the Labour Party and at Westminster.
Following his retirement from the Commons, he became the Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos, acting as opposition leader in the Lords, 1982-1992, fighting against some of the excesses of the Conservative governments. He was an active president of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1975-1985, and subsequently Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales, 1985-1994. Lord Cledwyn was also an erudite, cultured, patriotic Welshman who remained passionately supportive of the National Eisteddfod.
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Correspondence, papers and printed items, 1994-1995, concerning the proposal that Charles, Prince of Wales might become an honorary member of the Gorsedd, the proceedings of the Prince of Wales Committee, the creation of a new environmental trust for Wales by Charles, Prince of Wales, and the preparation in 1994 of a short article by Sir Goronwy Daniel on 'The 1967 Welsh Language Act and the Investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969'. The correspondents include Lord Cledwyn, 1994, Lord Gwilym Prys-Davies (2), 1994, and Professor Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, 1994.
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Preferred citation: 1/21.
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- Prince of Wales Committee. (Subject)
- Charles, Prince of Wales, 1948- (Subject)
- Prys-Davies, Gwilym Prys Davies, Baron, 1923-2017 (Subject)
- Jones, Ieuan Gwynedd (Subject)