Thomas Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh, born March 18, 1888, and died March 29, 1967, was a British coal miner who began working in the mining industry at age eleven and became a prominent Labour Party politician, representing Don Valley in Parliament for thirty seven years from 1922 to 1959. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1940 to 1945 during Churchill's wartime coalition, before becoming Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1945 to 1951 under Clement Attlee, in which role he steered the Agriculture Act 1947 through the House of Commons. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1941 and created a life peer in 1961 as Baron Williams of Barnburgh.
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Defining ContributionSteered the Agriculture Act 1947 through the House of Commons as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1 In the Other Atlases
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Thomas Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh, PC (18 March 1888 – 29 March 1967) was a British coal miner who became a Labour Party politician.
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was a British coal miner
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most notably steering the Agriculture Act 1947 through the House of Commons
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