Brandon Rhys-Williams
Sir Brandon Meredith Rhys-Williams, 2nd Baronet was a British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament for Kensington South from [1968 Kensington (UK Parliament constituency)|Kensington South by-election|1968] to 1974, and for Kensington from 1974 until his death.
Background
Brandon Meredith Rhys Williams was born in 1927. His father, Sir Rhys Rhys-Williams, had been a Liberal MP. His mother, Juliet Rhys-Williams, was another Liberal politician who later joined the Conservative Party and became a member of the Conservative Monday Club. He took the surname Rhys-Williams in 1938. He was educated at Eton College and Bolton Technical College. From 1946 to 1948, he was in the Welsh Guards.After his father's death, Brandon Rhys-Williams inherited his estate at Miskin.
Parliamentary career
Rhys-Williams contested Pontypridd in 1959, and Ebbw Vale in the 1960 by-election following the death of Aneurin Bevan as well as the same constituency in the following general election. He was defeated each time in these safe Labour seats.He was elected a Member of Parliament in the 1968 Kensington South by-election, representing that seat until February 1974, then for Kensington from February 1974 until his death. He was also a Member of the European Parliament from 1973 until 1984.
Personal life and death
Rhys-Williams and his wife, the former Caroline Foster, had one son and two daughters. He lived in London and Groes-faen.On 18 May 1988, Rhys-Williams died from pneumonia, as a complication of leukaemia, at Westminster Hospital, aged 60. In the subsequent by-election for Kensington, the seat was held for the Conservatives by Dudley Fishburn. Rhys-Williams was buried at St David's Church in Groes-faen.