Richard Edwards | |
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Member of the Welsh Assembly for Preseli Pembrokeshire | |
In office 6 May 1999 –1 May 2003 | |
Preceded by | New Assembly |
Succeeded by | Tamsin Dunwoody |
Personal details | |
Born | Llanelli,Wales | 25 August 1956
Political party | Labour |
Alma mater | University of Birmingham |
Richard Edwards (born 25 August 1956 in Llanelli) is a former Welsh Labour politician who was a Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Preseli Pembrokeshire from 1999 to 2003. Before politics he worked in local government and was a political researcher.
He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School,Carmarthen and holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a member of Unison.
He is a cousin of BBC Newsreader Huw Edwards. [1]
He was Mayor of Carmarthen in 1997,having first been elected in 1991. Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Preseli Pembrokeshire from 1999 to 2003. Shortly after being selected as a candidate he was diagnosed with leukemia,he was elected in 1999 and stood down at the 2003 election. [2]
In the First Assembly,he was Chair of the Local Government and Environment Committee,then the Environment,Planning and Transport Committee from March 2000.
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