1. Dafydd Elystan Elystan-Morgan, Baron Elystan-Morgan, known as Elystan Morgan, was a Welsh politician.
17 Facts About Elystan Morgan
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Elystan Morgan sat as a crossbencher in the House of Lords from 1981 to 2020, and served as a Labour MP from 1966 to 1974.
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Elystan Morgan studied law at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he was involved with student politics and served as president of the debating union.
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Early in 1955, Elystan Morgan was adopted as Plaid Cymru candidate for the Wrexham constituency and contested the seat at the by-election in 1955, and at the general elections in 1955 and in 1959.
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Elystan Morgan instead joined the Labour Party and was elected Member of Parliament for Cardiganshire, Wales, at the 1966 general election, and served as a junior minister from 1968 to 1970, as Under-Secretary at the Home Office.
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Elystan Morgan was chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Labour Party between 1971 and 1974.
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Elystan Morgan was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1971, entitled to practise as a barrister.
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Elystan Morgan was created a life peer on 27 May 1981, with the title Baron Elystan-Morgan, of Aberteifi in the County of Dyfed.
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Elystan Morgan held the office of Recorder between 1983 and 1987.
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Elystan Morgan held the office of Circuit Judge between 1987 and 2003.
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Elystan Morgan did return to politics after his retirement in 2006.
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Elystan Morgan retired from the House of Lords on 12 February 2020.
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Elystan Morgan campaigned heavily for Welsh devolution, as he believed that Wales should not legally be seen as a part of England.
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Elystan Morgan believed that Cardiff should have all major governing powers over Wales, save for a few, such as the ability to go to war.
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Elystan Morgan is recorded as having voted against the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1967, although in 1982 he claimed that he had actually abstained.
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Elystan Morgan later supported proposals to expand gay rights, such as the Homosexual Offences Order 1982 and the Marriage Act 2013.
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Elystan Morgan died in Ceredigion on 7 July 2021 at the age of 88.