Ray Mawby

Raymond Llewellyn Mawby (6 February 1922 – 22 July 1990) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Mawby was educated at Long Lawford school. He worked as an electrician and was an official in the Rugby branch of the Electrical Trades Union. As such, he became the first president of the Conservative Trade Unionists' national advisory committee. He was a Rugby Borough councillor in 1952.

Mawby was Member of Parliament for Totnes from 1955 to 1983. He was assistant Postmaster General from 1963 to 1964. During the debates over the legalisation of male homosexual acts (achieved in 1967) Mawby was active in camapigning against the changes.^[1]

References

^ See the television programme "Late Night Lineup - "Man Alive", 14 June 1967, BBC Archive website.

Times Guide to the House of Commons 1979
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Ray Mawby

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Ralph Rayner	Member of Parliament for Totnes 1955 – 1983	Constituency abolished

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Name	Mawby, Ray
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Short description	British politician
Date of birth	6 February 1922
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Date of death	22 July 1990
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