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词条 Dafydd Wigley
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  1. Early life

  2. Political career

     UK Parliament  National Assembly for Wales 

  3. Personal life

  4. Awards

  5. References

  6. External links

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}}Dafydd Wynne Wigley, Baron Wigley, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|PC}} (born David Wigley; 1 April 1943) is a Welsh politician. He served as Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Caernarfon[1] from 1974 until 2001 and as an Assembly Member for Caernarfon from 1999 until 2003. He was the leader of Plaid Cymru from 1981 to 1984 and again from 1991 to 2000. On 19 November 2010 it was announced that he had been granted a peerage by the Queen,[2] and took his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Wigley, of Caernarfon on 24 January 2011.[3]

Early life

Wigley was born in Derby, England, the only child of Welsh parents Elfyn Edward Wigley and Myfanwy Batterbee. He attended Caernarfon grammar school and Rydal School before going on to the Victoria University of Manchester[4] and training as an accountant. He was employed by Hoover as a financial controller before entering parliament.

Political career

UK Parliament

After being defeated at Merioneth in 1970, in 1974 Wigley became one of Plaid Cymru's first three MPs to be elected at a General Election, and first became the party's president in 1981. Gwynfor Evans had led Plaid Cymru since 1945, but resigned after the devastating defeat of the Yes Campaign in the devolution referendum of 1979. It was naturally assumed that either Wigley or Dafydd Elis Thomas would succeed him as president.

The election for president was seen as instrumental in deciding the future direction of the Plaid Cymru. Wigley represented a moderate, pragmatic social-democracy, in sharp contrast with rival candidate Dafydd Elis Thomas's left-wing socialism. Wigley's triumph in 1981 was largely a pyrrhic victory - he won the presidency, but Elis Thomas would have a greater influence over the party's ideology throughout the 1980s. In 1984 Wigley resigned from the presidency because of his children's health, but returned to the job in 1991 after the resignation of Dafydd Elis Thomas.

National Assembly for Wales

In 1999 Wigley became a member of the National Assembly for Wales, and led the Plaid Cymru opposition to Labour, before his resignation from the leadership, officially on medical advice but amid rumours of an internal plot against him in 2000.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} In 2006 he sought and secured nomination to Plaid Cymru's North Wales party list as the secondary candidate for the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007 but, because in part of constituency seat gains, Plaid Cymru failed to gain a second regional seat.

Personal life

He married the international harpist Elinor Bennett. The couple had four children, son Hywel Wigley and daughter Eluned Wigley and two sons, Alun & Geraint, who died of a genetic illness. His sons' condition influenced the direction of his career, and he took a strong interest in the affairs of disabled people, being vice-chairman of the Parliamentary all-party disablement group, vice-president of Disability Wales, vice-president of Mencap (Wales), former president of the Spastics' Society of Wales and sponsor of the Disabled Persons Act in 1981. In 2003 Wigley became Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales.

Awards

In 2008, Wigley was awarded an Honorary Chair in Business at Bangor University.[5]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12259637|title=Plaid peer Dafydd Wigley to champion disability rights|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=7 May 2013}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11795372 |title=Peerage for former Plaid Cymru leader Dafydd Wigley |publisher=bbc.co.uk |date=19 November 2010 |accessdate=14 July 2011}}
3. ^{{cite web|last=Rhys |first=Steffan |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/12/13/wigley-plans-to-take-up-his-seat-in-the-lords-91466-27814074/ |title=Wigley plans to take up his seat in the Lords |publisher=walesonline.co.uk |date= |accessdate=14 July 2011}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7186636.stm|title=Wigley accepts Plaid peerage call |publisher=BBC News|accessdate=7 May 2013}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/full-ori.php.en?Id=599 |title=Honouring Dafydd Wigley's contribution with Business Chair |publisher=Bangor University |accessdate=7 May 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101123230/http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/full-ori.php.en?Id=599 |archivedate=1 November 2013 |df=dmy }}

External links

{{Commons category|Dafydd Wigley}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20111012143156/http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/dafydd-wigley/58064 UK Parliament Profile]
  • {{Hansard-contribs | mr-dafydd-wigley | Dafydd Wigley }}
  • The Right Honourable Dafydd Wigley – University of Wales
  • BBC News CV on Dafydd Wigley
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| years = 1999 – 2003
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| title = President of Plaid Cymru
| years = 1981–1984
| before = Gwynfor Evans
| after = Dafydd Elis Thomas
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| title = President of Plaid Cymru
| years = 1991–2000
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| title = Leader of Plaid Cymru in the National Assembly
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| title = Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly
| years = 1999–2000
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| after = Ieuan Wyn Jones
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| title = Honorary President of Plaid Cymru
| years = 2005–
| before = Gwynfor Evans
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| title=Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales
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