Clifford Williams (politician)

Albert Clifford Williams, BEM (28 June 1905 – 1987) was a Welsh Labour Party politician and miner at Rose Heyworth Colliery in Abertillery.

[1] He went to a primary school in Blaina, Monmouthshire but started work in the mines at the age of 14.

In 1952 he became a Justice of the Peace and he was a member of hospital boards for thirty years.

In April 1965 he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the safe Labour seat of Abertillery in a by-election after the death of sitting MP Llywelyn Williams.

He also became a member of the Welsh National Water Development Authority.