Donald Coleman was educated at Cadoxton Boys' School and Cardiff Technical College.
11 Facts About Donald Coleman
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Donald Coleman later attended University College of Wales Swansea as a mature student between 1950 and 1954.
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Donald Coleman held a number of technical positions at various laboratories at Cardiff and Swansea before securing an appointment in 1954 as metallurgist to the Research Department of the Steel Company of Wales, Abbey Works, Port Talbot, in which position he remained until his election to parliament in the General Election of October 1964.
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Donald Coleman had joined the Labour Party in November 1948 and became a member of the Co-operative Party in 1955.
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Donald Coleman had stood as a Labour candidate for Swansea Borough Council in 1960.
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Donald Coleman served as PPS to George Thomas, Secretary of State for Wales, and was thus in effect a junior minister.
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Donald Coleman served as delegate to the Council of Europe.
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Donald Coleman was regarded as being on the right wing of the Labour Party and in September 1983 he backed Peter Shore, rather than his Welsh colleague Neil Kinnock for party leader and Denzil Davies, the MP for Llanelli, for deputy leader.
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Donald Coleman announced in early 1990 that he intended to stand down from parliament at the next General Election.
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Donald Coleman was especially prominent in the public life of Neath, Swansea and West Glamorgan, and his leisure interests included membership of the chorus of the Welsh National Opera.
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Donald Coleman married, in 1949, Phyllis Eileen Williams, who died in 1963.