Huw T. Edwards

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Huw Thomas Edwards (1892-1970) was a Welsh trade union leader and politician.

Edwards was an opponent of the campaign for a Welsh Parliament until the decision to flood the Tryweryn valley to create a reservoir to service Liverpool. In 1956 he bought the Welsh-language periodical, Y Faner, in order to save it from liquidation. In 1958 he left the Labour Party to join Plaid Cymru, and later became President of the Welsh Language Society.