Sir Lewis Jones was a British Liberal National Party

Liberal National Party

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 politician.

A former schoolmaster, Jones took up political work in 1910. He served with the Ministry of Munitions during World War I

World War I

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, and became secretary of the ministry's priority department.

A supporter of the National Government led by former Labour Party

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 leader Ramsay MacDonald

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, he was elected as the Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Swansea West

Swansea West (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the 1931 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1931

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, unseating the sitting Labour MP Howel Samuel

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. Jones was re-elected in 1935

United Kingdom general election, 1935

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, (when The Times

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described his campaign as having been subject to "organised rowdyism") and was knight

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ed in 1944 for political and public services, but was heavily defeated at the 1945 general election

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.

Jones died in 1968 at his home in Swansea

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, aged 84. He had been secretary of the South Wales Siemens Steel Association for 44 years.

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