Mary Garbett Edwards Papers,

Papers of Mary Garbett Edwards, including scrapbooks containing family photographs and letters, [1890]-1973; Montgomeryshire Liberal Party, General Purposes Committee, minute book, 1950-1959; letters, 1929-1983; journals of visits to North America, 1936-1949; notebooks and notes for speeches, [20th century]; radio scripts and related material, 1943-1963; papers relating to Garbett Edwards, including eisteddfod essays and other papers, 1897-[1930s], journal of Canadian visits, 1936-1939, and publications and annual reports of the Mid Wales Industrial Development Association, 1957-1973.

Mrs Mary Garbett Edwards, OBE (1893-1986), was a Liberal Party agent in Montgomeryshire, and a prominent public servant. She was the election agent for Clement Davies (1884-1962), Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire, and Emlyn Hooson (b. 1962), Liberal MP (now Lord Hooson). She was chairman of Montgomeryshire County Council Education Committee, and vice-chairman of the Council in 1973. She occasionally contributed to radio programmes. Her husband, Garbett Edwards (died 1942), was chief financial secretary to Lord Davies of Llandinam. Their son, D. Peter Garbett-Edwards, was Secretary of the Mid-Wales Industrial Development Association, 1957-1977.

Arranged into the following: Mary Garbett Edwards; Garbett Edwards; and miscellaneous.

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Donated by Mr Peter Garbett-Edwards, Llandinam, Powys, 1987.

Mrs Mary Garbett Edwards, OBE (1893-1986), was a Liberal Party agent in Montgomeryshire, and a prominent public servant. She was the election agent for Clement Davies (1884-1962), Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire, and Emlyn Hooson (b. 1962), Liberal MP (now Lord Hooson). She was chairman of Montgomeryshire County Council Education Committee, and vice-chairman of the Council in 1973. She occasionally contributed to radio programmes. Her husband, Garbett Edwards (died 1942), was chief financial secretary to Lord Davies of Llandinam. Their son, D. Peter Garbett-Edwards, was Secretary of the Mid-Wales Industrial Development Association, 1957-1977.

Title supplied from contents of fonds. The archive includes some material relating to Peter Garbett-Edwards.

A hard copy of the catalogue is available in Minor Lists and Summaries, 1987, pp. 32-34, at the National Library of Wales.

May 2003; amended July 2005

Compiled by Rhys Jones for the ANW project. The following sources were used to compile this description: NLW, Minor Lists and Summaries, 1987; NLW, Index to Welsh Obituaries, 1986.

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Action: All records donated to the National Library of Wales have been retained..

Accruals are not expected.

Tape recordings of reminiscences by Mrs Garbett Edwards are held by the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales at the National Library of Wales (ref CM1562-4). Photographs are in National Library of Wales, Special Collections (ref NLW Photograph Alb. 624). Further records of the Mid-Wales Industrial Development Association are National Library of Wales, D. P. Garbett-Edwards Papers.

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