William Cove
William George Cove (21 May 1888 – 15 March 1963) was a British politician. He served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) from 1923 to 1959.
Born in Pontypridd, Cove was first elected to Parliament in the 1923 general election for the Northamptonshire constituency of Wellingborough, where he succeeded the National Liberal MP Geoffrey Shakespeare. In the 1929 general election, Cove left Wellingborough to become MP for the Welsh constituency of Aberavon, where the Labour Leader Ramsay MacDonald had stood down to stand for the County Durham seat of Seaham. Cove remained MP for Aberavon until he retired at the 1959 general election after 36 years in the Commons, he was succeeded at Aberavon by John Morris. He died in 1963 aged 74 in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.
References
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs [self-published source][better source needed]
- British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-1949, compiled and edited by F.W.S. Craig (The Macmillan Press 1979)
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Cove
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Wellingborough 1923 – 1929 |
Succeeded by George Dallas |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Aberavon 1929 – 1959 |
Succeeded by John Morris |
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template without an unnamed parameter
- 1888 births
- 1963 deaths
- Labour Party (UK) MPs
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Welsh constituencies
- UK MPs 1923–24
- UK MPs 1924–29
- UK MPs 1929–31
- UK MPs 1931–35
- UK MPs 1935–45
- UK MPs 1945–50
- UK MPs 1950–51
- UK MPs 1951–55
- UK MPs 1955–59
- Welsh socialists
