Name Edwin Wainwright Role Politician | Died January 22, 1998 Party Labour Party | |
Edwin Wainwright (August 1908 – 22 January 1998) was a British Labour Party politician.
Wainwright was educated at Darfield council school and Wombwell and Barnsley Technical College. He was a miner and a branch official and national executive member of the National Union of Mineworkers. For twenty years he served as a councillor on Wombwell Urban District Council.
Wainwright was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dearne Valley from 1959 to 1983, when the seat was abolished in boundary changes.
In 1983 whilst at the House of Commons, Wainwright "got so drunk that he babbled incoherently". Hansard mildly recorded his speech as "Mr. Wainwright made a number of observations."
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