Sir David Treharne Llewellyn (17 January 1916 – 9 August 1992), was a British
Conservative
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politician and junior minister.
Early life
Llewellyn was the son of the Welsh industrialist
Sir David Llewellyn, 1st Baronet
Sir David Richard Llewellyn, 1st Baronet JP (9 March 1879 – 15 December 1940) was a Welsh industrialist and financier.
Early life
Llewellyn was born in Aberdare, South Wales on 9 March 1879. He was the son of Elizabeth Llewellyn and Rees Ll ...
.
Sir Rhys and
Sir Harry Llewellyn were his elder brothers.
[Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, ]
He was educated at
Eton College
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and graduated from
Trinity College, Cambridge
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in 1938 with a Bachelor of Arts.
Career
He sat as
member of parliament for
Cardiff North from 1950 to 1959 and served under
Winston Churchill
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as
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
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from 1951 to 1952. He was created a
Knight Bachelor
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, for political and public services, in the
1960 New Year Honours
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List.
Personal life
On 18 February 1950, Llewellyn married Joan Anne Williams (1916–2013), a daughter of Robert Henry Williams. She was head of the wartime Cabinet Office cypher office.
Together, they had two sons and one daughter:
* Emma Victoria Llewellyn (b. 1951), who married Bruce H. Dinwiddy, son of T. L. Dinwiddy, in 1974.
* Robert Crofts Williams Llewellyn (b. 1952), who married Susan Constance Miller-Stirling, daughter of Hubert Miller-Stirling, in 1975. After her death in 1980, he married Lucinda Roberte Gilmour, daughter of Alexander Clement Gilmour, in 1981. They divorced in 1989 and he married Sarah Dominica Anderson, daughter of Maj. Gavin Campbell Anderson, in 1989.
* David Rhidian Llewellyn (b. 1957), who married Susan Edmiston, daughter of Edward Edmiston, in 1984. They divorced in 2001 and he married Rose Ellen Watkins, daughter of Richard Francis Watkins, in 2001.
Sir David died on 9 August 1992.
[Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes.'' ]Wilmington, Delaware
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: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd
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, 2003, vol. 2, p. 237.
See also
*
Llewellyn Baronets of Bwlffa
References
External links
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1916 births
1992 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for Welsh constituencies
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Cardiff constituencies
Ministers in the third Churchill government, 1951–1955
UK MPs 1950–1951
UK MPs 1951–1955
UK MPs 1955–1959
Younger sons of baronets