Albert Evans was a British

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 Labour Party

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 politician.

A master engraver

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, Evans became involved in the Labour movement in the the 1920s, and was elected to Islington Borough Council

Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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 in 1936. In March 1946 he was elected to the London County Council

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 to represent Islington West.

He was first elected to Parliament

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 at a by-election

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 in 1947, when the Labour Member of Parliament

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 for Islington West

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, Frederick Montague

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, was elevated to the peerage as Baron Amwell

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The Islington West constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election

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, when Evans was elected in the new Islington South West

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 constituency. He held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons

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 at the 1970 general election

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