11 Facts About Brynle Williams

Brynle Williams was a Welsh Conservative politician who was the Shadow Minister for Rural Affairs from 2007 to 2011, and a Member of the Welsh Assembly for the North Wales Region from 2007 to his death in 2011.

Brynle Williams later became a leader in the UK fuel protests in 2000.

Brynle Williams was first elected to the Welsh Assembly on 1 May 2003 and was re-elected in 2007; serving until his death in 2011.

Brynle Williams was Shadow Minister for Rural Affairs from 14 July 2007 and sat on the Sustainability, Rural Development, and Standards committees.

Brynle Williams had been the Conservative spokesman for Environment, Planning and Countryside and Local Government in the Second Assembly, during which time he was Chair of the North Wales Regional Committee.

Brynle Williams, who was born and raised in Cilcain, Flintshire, began work in the agricultural industry aged 15.

For more than 20 years, Brynle Williams was a member of the Livestock Committee of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society that organises the Royal Welsh Show In 2010, he realised a lifetime ambition when he was given the honour of judging the supreme champion at the RWS.

Brynle Williams was Chairman of Flintshire County Farmers Union of Wales for eight years, a lifetime member of the Welsh Pony and Cob Society and President of the Denbighshire and Flintshire Agricultural Society.

Brynle Williams was married and had a son and daughter.

Brynle Williams was diagnosed with colon cancer in the summer of 2010, and died of the disease on 1 April 2011.

In May 2012, an inquest into Brynle Williams' death heard that misdiagnosis of the cancer resulted in a five-month delay in its treatment.