Penry Williams

Penry Williams (5 September 1866 – 26 June 1945)[1] was a Liberal Party politician in England, born in Middlesbrough, a son of Edward Williams, a Cleveland ironmaster, and brother of Member of Parliament (MP) Aneurin Williams.

Williams was elected at the January 1910 general election as MP for the usually Liberal Middlesbrough constituency[2] in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

[3] With rifts in the Liberal Party healed, the party's fortunes recovered at the 1923 general election, and Williams regained his seat.

[3] His return was short-lived, because at the 1924 general election he was unseated in a close three-way contest by the Labour Party candidate Ellen Wilkinson.

[3] At the 1929 general election, he stood as the Liberal Party candidate for Berwick-on-Tweed where he came close to gaining the seat from the Conservatives.