Encyclopedia > Lord Williams of Mostyn

  Article Content

Gareth Wyn Williams

Redirected from Lord Williams of Mostyn

Gareth Wyn Williams (born February 5, 1941), Lord Williams of Mostyn, is a British Labour Party politician who is currently Leader of the House of Lords[?] and Lord President of the Council and a member of the Cabinet.

Gareth Williams had a successful legal career, becoming a Queen's Counsel, Recorder, Deputy High Court Judge and Chairman of the Bar Council[?]. He was made a life peer in 1992 and became an opposition spokesman in the House of Lords on Legal Affairs, and later Northern Ireland. After Labour's election victory he became a Home Office minister, and in 1999 was appointed Attorney General. He became Leader of the House of Lords in 2001.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Jamesport, New York

... of any race. There are 605 households out of which 26.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.7% are married couples living together, 8.8% hav ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 39.2 ms