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Josiah Jones
Josiah Towyn Jones (28 December 1858 – 16 November 1925) was a Wales, Welsh clergyman and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Carmarthenshire East (UK Parliament constituency), Carmarthenshire East and later for Llanelli (UK Parliament constituency), Llanelli. He was born in New Quay, Ceredigion, Cardiganshire, and began work as a farm labourer aged 11. A year later he went to sea as a cabin boy, later working as a ship's cook and steward. In 1876 he entered the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen#Wales, Presbyterian College, Carmarthen. In 1880 he became a Congregational church, Congregationalist minister at Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil. In 1884 he began a 22-year spell as minister at Cwmamman in the River Amman, Amman Valley, Carmarthenshire. At this time he was a close political associate of leading Welsh Liberals T. E. Ellis, Tom Ellis and David Lloyd George. He married Mary Howells of Plas Cadwgan in the Swansea Valley in 188 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party (UK)
The Liberal Party was one of the two Major party, major List of political parties in the United Kingdom, political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Beginning as an alliance of Whigs (British political party), Whigs, free trade–supporting Peelites and reformist Radicals (UK), Radicals in the 1850s, by the end of the 19th century it had formed four governments under William Ewart Gladstone, William Gladstone. Despite being divided over the issue of Irish Home Rule Movement, Irish Home Rule, the party returned to government in 1905 and won a landslide victory in the 1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 general election. Under Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, prime ministers Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1905–1908) and H. H. Asquith (1908–1916), the Liberal Party passed Liberal welfare reforms, reforms that created a basic welfare state. Although Asquith was the Leader of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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