Gwilym Prys Davies, Baron Prys-Davies

The Right Honourable
The Lord Prys-Davies
Prys-Davies in the House of Lords, 2008
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage
9 February 1983 – 23 May 2015
Personal details
Born(1923-12-08)8 December 1923
Died28 March 2017(2017-03-28) (aged 93)
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox officeholder with deprecated parameter "honorific-suffix". Replace with "honorific_suffix".
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox officeholder with deprecated parameter "honorific-prefix". Replace with "honorific_prefix".
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox officeholder with deprecated parameter "termlabel1". Replace with "term_label1".
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox officeholder with deprecated parameter "nationality". It should be removed.

Gwilym Prys Prys-Davies, Baron Prys-Davies (born Gwilym Prys Davies; 8 December 1923 – 28 March 2017) was a Welsh solicitor and Labour activist. He was a pioneer of the use of the Welsh language in the courts, and in 1982 he was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer and became the first member to take the oath of allegiance in Welsh.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.