Ted Rowlands, Baron Rowlands
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The Right Honourable The Lord Rowlands CBE |
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| Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney Merthyr Tydfil (1972–1983) |
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In office 13 April 1972 – 7 June 2001 |
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| Preceded by | S. O. Davies |
| Succeeded by | Dai Havard |
| Member of Parliament for Cardiff North |
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In office 31 March 1966 – 18 June 1970 |
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| Preceded by | Donald Box |
| Succeeded by | Michael Roberts |
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| Born | 23 January 1940 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | King's College London |
Edward Rowlands, Baron Rowlands, CBE (born 23 January 1940) is a Welsh politician, who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament for over thirty years and as a junior minister in the 1960s and 1970s.
He attended Rhondda Grammar School and Wirral Grammar School, and then King's College London where he obtained a BA in History in 1962.
Rowlands was first elected to the Commons at the 1966 general election as Member of Parliament for Cardiff North, but lost his seat at the 1970 election. He was elected to represent Merthyr Tydfil at the 1972 by-election called after the death of the long-standing MP S. O. Davies. Rowlands served as Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil until the constituency boundaries were redrawn and renamed for the 1983 general election, when he was returned for the new Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney constituency. He was returned at three further elections before he stepped down at the 2001 general election.
He had served as a junior minister under in Harold Wilson's governments, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Welsh Office from 1969 to 1970, and again from 1974 to 1975, when he was appointed to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. From 1976, under James Callaghan's premiership, he was Minister of State at the Foreign Office until Labour was defeated at the 1979 general election.
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