Sir Charles Edwards (19 February 1867 – 15 June 1954) was a Labour Party politician in the

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. Edwards was elected at the 1918 general election as

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(MP) for the newly created Bedwellty constituency in Monmouthshire. He held the seat until he retired from

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at the 1950 general election. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1940, and from 1940 to 1942 he was government chief whip in the war-time Coalition Government.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Charles 1867 births 1954 deaths Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Miners' Federation of Great Britain-sponsored MPs Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945 National Union of Mineworkers-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950 Welsh Labour Party MPs