13 Facts About Juliet Rhys-Williams

Juliet Rhys-Williams was educated in Eastbourne, and joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment aged 15.

Juliet Rhys-Williams was working for Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, 1st Baronet, and they were married in 1921.

Juliet Rhys-Williams contested the 1938 Pontypridd by-election as a Liberal National candidate.

Juliet Rhys-Williams's candidacy attracted popular attention because she decided to stand when her baby daughter was just 8 days old.

Juliet Rhys-Williams was a member of the Liberal Party's ruling Council.

Juliet Rhys-Williams contested the 1945 general election as the Liberal Party candidate for Ilford North.

Juliet Rhys-Williams resigned after a disagreement on policy matters with her party's leaders.

Lady Juliet Rhys-Williams was a member of the Beveridge Committee and unsuccessfully proposed a Basic Income in the form of a negative income tax, as an alternative to the main, insurance based recommendation of the Beveridge Report.

Juliet Rhys-Williams later joined the Conservative Party, was the secretary and chair of the United Europe Movement and editor of European Review.

Juliet Rhys-Williams was nevertheless against signing the Treaty of Rome and campaigned vigorously against joining the Common Market, which she thought would hand over British sovereignty to Europe and betray the Commonwealth.

Juliet Rhys-Williams became a prominent member of the right-wing Conservative Monday Club.

Lady Juliet Rhys-Williams was interested in film, and involved in the development of colour film, taking out a patent in 1930, with Sydney George Short.

Sir Rhys and Lady Juliet Rhys-Williams had four children; Brandon Juliet Rhys-Williams was the second son, and inherited the baronetcy, his elder brother having died in 1943.