Ted Rowlands, Baron Rowlands

Edward "Ted" Rowlands, Baron Rowlands, CBE ( born January 23, 1940) is a Welsh politician who sat more than 30 years for the Labour Party in the House and was in the 1970 Minister of State.

Youth and Education

He went to the Rhondda Grammar School and the Wirral Grammar School and then studied at King's College London, where he graduated in 1962 with a BA in history.

Political career

1966 Rowlands was elected to the British House of Commons for the first time for the constituency of Cardiff North but lost his seat at the general election in 1970. During the by-election in 1972 in the constituency of Merthyr Tydfil after the death of Deputies SO Davies, he moved again in the Parliament and retained his seat until the clean slate of the constituencies in the general election in 1983, when he won the seat of Parliament for the constituency of Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney. He defended his seat in three consecutive elections until he was voted out in 2001.

He was junior minister under Harold Wilson and from 1969 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1975 Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Welsh Office. From 1976, he was under James Callaghan Minister of State at the Foreign Ministry was to the Labour government voted out at the British general election, 1979.

In 2002 he became Commander of the British Empire and in 2004 he was raised as Baron Rowlands for Life Peer. In the House of Lords, he is a member of the Constitution Committee.