Dafydd Wigley

The Lord Wigley
Wigley in 2006
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
24 January 2011
Life Peerage
Member of the Welsh Assembly
for Caernarfon
In office
6 May 1999 – 1 May 2003
Preceded byOffice Created
Succeeded byAlun Ffred Jones
Member of Parliament
for Caernarfon
In office
28 February 1974 – 14 May 2001
Preceded byGoronwy Roberts
Succeeded byHywel Williams
Personal details
Born
David Wigley

(1943-04-01) 1 April 1943 (age 81)
Derby, England
Political partyPlaid Cymru
SpouseElinor Bennett
Alma materVictoria University of Manchester

Dafydd Wynne Wigley, Baron Wigley, PC (born David Wigley; 1 April 1943) is a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from 1981 to 1984 and again from 1991 to 2000. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Caernarfon from 1974 to 2001 and as the Member of the Welsh Assembly for Caernarfon from 1999 to 2003. In 2010, Wigley was granted life peerage, taking his seat in the House of Lords in 2011.


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