Donald Richard Coleman, CBE, JP, DL (19 September 1925 – 14 January 1991) was the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom for Neath from 1964 until his death in 1991.
[1] Until the 1960s, Neath was regarded, as a predominantly coal—mining constituency, as a seat where the nominee of the National Union of Mineworkers would have a considerable advantage at the selection conference.
[1] Coleman served as PPS to George Thomas, Secretary of State for Wales, and was thus in effect a junior minister.
Coleman was especially prominent in the public life of Neath, Swansea and West Glamorgan, and his leisure interests included membership of the chorus of the Welsh National Opera.
[1] Although he had announced his retirement the previous year, Coleman remained an MP when he died from a heart attack on 14 January 1991, while on a train from Neath to London.