Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
Alec Jones | |
Office: | Shadow Secretary of State for Wales |
Leader: | James Callaghan Michael Foot |
Term Start: | 14 June 1979 |
Term End: | 20 March 1983 |
Predecessor: | John Morris |
Successor: | Denzil Davies |
Office1: | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales |
Primeminister1: | Harold Wilson James Callaghan |
Term Start1: | 12 June 1975 |
Term End1: | 4 May 1979 |
Predecessor1: | Ted Rowlands |
Successor1: | Michael Roberts |
Office2: | Under-Secretary of State, Health and Social Security |
Primeminister2: | Harold Wilson |
Term Start2: | 18 October 1974 |
Term End2: | 12 June 1975 |
Predecessor2: | Robert Brown |
Successor2: | Michael Meacher |
Office3: | Member of Parliament for Rhondda |
Term Start3: | 9 March 1967 |
Term End3: | 20 March 1983 |
Predecessor3: | Iorwerth Rhys Thomas |
Successor3: | Allan Rogers |
Birth Date: | 12 August 1924 |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Labour |
Trevor Alec Jones (12 August 1924 – 20 March 1983) was a British Labour Party politician.
Jones was born in Clydach Vale and educated at Rhondda Boys' Grammar School. After obtaining a teaching qualification at Bangor Normal College, he taught from 1947 until 1967, when the death of the local MP, Iorwerth Thomas, whose political agent Jones had been, created a vacancy which resulted in his own selection.
Jones was Member of Parliament for Rhondda West from the 1967 Rhondda West by-election until the constituency was abolished in 1974, and for Rhondda from 1974 until he died in office shortly before the 1983 general election. He was a junior minister for Social Security from 1974 to 1975 and for Wales from 1975 to 1979.
Jones had suffered from a heart condition for some years prior to his death at the age of 58, which occurred at his home in Tonypandy.[1]