Thomas Williams (Warrington MP), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British politician, 1915-1986
Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1915
Date of Death: 28-Feb-1986
Profession: politician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Thomas Williams (Warrington MP)
- Sir William Thomas Williams, QC (22 September 1915 – 28 February 1986) was a British Labour Co-operative politician. Williams was educated at University College, Cardiff and St Catherine's College, Oxford.
- He was President of the South Wales University Students' Union in 1939.
- He was a Baptist minister and a chaplain with the Royal Air Force for returned prisoners of war.
- He became a barrister, called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn, and a Queen's Counsel, and was bursar and a tutor at Manchester College, Oxford. Williams was Member of Parliament (MP) for Hammersmith South from a 1949 by-election to 1955, Baron's Court from 1955 to 1959, and Warrington from a 1961 by-election.
- Williams served as parliamentary private secretary to the Attorney-General from 1964.
- In 1969, Williams was appointed by the then-East Pakistan based Awami League, one of Bangladesh's main political factions since independence in 1971, to represent Pakistani and later-Bangladeshi politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the Agartala Conspiracy Case.
- The military junta of Gen.
- Ayub Khan did not allow Williams to represent Rahman, citing domestic security and interference in sovereign matters. In 1981 Williams, who had continued working as a barrister throughout his time in Parliament, was appointed a circuit Judge.
- This appointment obliged him to vacate his seat and led to a by-election at which Roy Jenkins became the first Parliamentary candidate for the Social Democratic Party, although Labour narrowly retained the seat.
- Williams remains the last Member to vacate their seat for actual paid office.He was knighted in the 1976 New Year Honours.
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