Edwin Wainwright

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Edwin Wainwright (August 190822 January 1998) was a British Labour Party politician.

Wainwright was educated at Darfield council school and Wombwell and Barnsley Technical College. He was a miner and a branch official and national executive member of the National Union of Mineworkers. For twenty years he served as a councillor on Wombwell Urban District Council.

Wainwright was Member of Parliament for Dearne Valley from 1959 to 1983, when the seat was abolished in boundary changes.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Wilfred Paling
Member of Parliament for Dearne Valley
19591983
Succeeded by
(constituency abolished)