Llewellyn Heycock, Baron Heycock

The Right Honourable
The Lord Heycock
CBE
Personal details
Born
Llewellyn Heycock

(1905-08-12)12 August 1905
Margam, Wales
Died13 March 1990(1990-03-13) (aged 84)
Political partyLabour
OccupationPolitician

Llewellyn Heycock, Baron Heycock CBE (12 August 1905 – 13 March 1990) was a Welsh local politician, who became a life peer in 1967.

Heycock was born in Margam and began his career as an engine driver with the Great Western Railway. He subsequently rose to a powerful position in South Wales local politics through his trade union connections and membership of the Labour Party, a "personality of transcendent authority".[1] Despite having himself received little formal education, he became Chairman of the Glamorganshire Education Committee.

He was first elected to Glamorgan County Council in 1937 at a by-election following the re-election of long-serving miners' agent John Thomas of Pontrhydyfen as an alderman. Heycock was chosen as Labour candidate at the expense of Joe Brown, a former mayor of Port Talbot and a close associate of Ramsay Macdonald when he was MP for Aberavon. Brown resigned from the Labour Party in protest and stood as an Independent.[2] However, Heycock held the seat by 569 votes.

In April 1967 he was elected as a county councillor to Glamorgan County Council for the Port Talbot East ward.[3] In 1973 he was elected unopposed as councillor for Margam Central on the new West Glamorgan County Council.[4]

He became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1959,[5] a Commander of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (CStJ) in April 1967,[6] and a life peer on 10 July 1967 as Baron Heycock, of Taibach in the Borough of Port Talbot.[7]

Coat of arms of Llewellyn Heycock, Baron Heycock
Crest
On a Cap of Maintenance Gules turned up Ermine a Demi Dragon Gules holding a Wheel Or charged in the centre with a Rose Gules thereon a Rose Argent barbed and seeded proper.
Escutcheon
Or on a Chevron Gules between three Wheels winged Sable two Chevronels Argent on a Chief Azure between two Cockatrices' Heads erased Or an Open Book proper bearing the word "Scientia" in Letters Sable
Supporters
Dexter: a Dragon Gules gorged with a Baron's Coronet proper pendent therefrom by a Ring Or a Winged Wheel Sable; Sinister: a Cockatrice Gules gorged with a Baron's Coronet proper pendent therefrom by a Ring Or a Portcullis chained of the last.
Motto
Semper Civibus Meis Servio

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References

  1. ^ Kenneth O. Morgan - Rebirth of a Nation (1982)
  2. ^ "Councillor J.A. Brown Leaves Labour Party". Port Talbot Guardian. 14 April 1937. p. 1. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Big shocks for Labour in Glamorgan elections - How They Voted". South Wales Echo. 14 April 1967. p. 11.
  4. ^ "West Glamorgan County Council Election Results 1973-1993" (PDF). The Election Centre (Plymouth University). Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  5. ^ "No. 41589". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1958. p. 10.
  6. ^ "No. 44282". The London Gazette. 4 April 1967. p. 3697.
  7. ^ "No. 44362". The London Gazette. 11 July 1967. p. 7641.
  8. ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1973. p. 575.