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| name = Stan Awbery<br />
| birth_date = 19 July 1888<br />
| birth_place = [[Swansea]], Wales<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1969|5|7|1888|7|19}}<br />
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| office = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Bristol Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Bristol Central]]<br />
| term_start = 26 July 1945<br />
| term_end = 15 October 1964<br />
| predecessor = [[Violet Bathurst, Lady Apsley|Violet Bathurst]]<br />
| successor = [[Arthur Palmer (politician)|Arthur Palmer]]<br />
| party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]<br />
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'''Stanley Stephen Awbery''' (19 July 1888 – 7 May 1969) was a British trade unionist and [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] politician who served as the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Bristol Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Bristol Central]] from 1945 to 1964.<ref name="Stenton1976">{{cite book|author=Michael Stenton|title=Who's who of British Members of Parliament: A Biographical Dictionary of the House of Commons Based on Annual Volumes of Dod's Parliamentary Companion and Other Sources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r73XAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Harvester Press|isbn=978-0-85527-335-4|page=11}}</ref><ref name="glamarchives">{{cite web|url=http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=33&coll_id=1996&expand=|title=Stanley Stephen Awbery Collection|publisher=Glamorgan Archives|access-date=29 October 2011}}</ref><br />
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Awbery was born in [[Swansea]], and began work at a copperworks aged 13.<ref name="glamarchives" /> In 1904 he began his [[trade union]] activities when he joined the [[Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers' Union]]. He became the secretary of the Fuel Workers' Branch in 1913, and national auditor of the union in 1919. He became a permanent official with the union in 1920 and in 1926 district secretary at [[Barry Docks]].<ref name="glamarchives" /><br />
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He was a member of the Welsh Committee of the [[Independent Labour Party]], becoming chairman in 1929. He was elected to [[Barry, Vale of Glamorgan|Barry]] Town Council and was mayor of Barry in 1941.<ref name="glamarchives" /> He stood unsuccessfully as Labour Party candidate for the [[Clitheroe (UK Parliament constituency)|Clitheroe]] constituency at the [[1931 United Kingdom general election|1931]] and [[1935 United Kingdom general election|1935]] general elections. He was selected to contest [[Bristol Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Bristol Central]] in 1937, although the anticipated general election was postponed due to the [[World War II|Second World War]].<ref name="glamarchives" /> He finally entered parliament at the [[1945 United Kingdom general election|1945 general election]] and remained [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for Bristol Central until his retirement in [[1964 United Kingdom general election|1964]].<ref name="glamarchives" /><br />
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On the 7 May 1952 Awbery played a minor role in the [[British Malayan headhunting scandal]]. In the House of Commons, Awbery asked [[Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos|Oliver Lyttelton]] for information on photographs published by the [[Morning Star (British newspaper)|''Daily Worker'']] (now ''Morning Star'') depicting British soldiers during the [[Malayan Emergency]] posing with decapitated human heads. Lyttelton responded to Awbery by confirming that the photographs were indeed genuine, and that previous government denials of their authenticity were wrong.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Poole |first=Dan |title=Head Hunters in the Malayan Emergency: The Atrocity and Cover-Up |publisher=Pen and Sword Military |year=2023 |isbn=978-1399057417 |pages=15}}</ref><br />
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Awbrey was a keen local historian, and published a number of books on the subject.<ref name="glamarchives" /><br />
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== References ==<br />
* {{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 |orig-year=1969 |edition= 3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X}}<br />
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[[Category:UK MPs 1959–1964]]</div>imported>Abdul Rahman Muazzam