William Mainwaring
William Henry Mainwaring (1884 – 18 May 1971) was a Welsh coal miner, lecturer and trade unionist, who became a long-serving Labour Party Member of Parliament. Both as a trade unionist and a politician he struggled, largely successfully to counter Communist influence. He was said to have spoken "with passion and fire on behalf of his fellow miners".
Read more about William Mainwaring: Mining, Labour College Lecturer, Miners' Agent, Rhondda East Byelection, Parliament, 1945 General Election, Korean War, Welsh Nationalism, Retirement
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“The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I’m not sure it’ll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else, maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.”
—Daniel Mainwaring (1902–1977)