special birthday greetings to Wyndham Thomas CBE

摘要

Congratulations to one of the Association's most senior Vice-Presidents, an energetic TCPA supporter: Wyndham Thomas celebrated his 95th birthday on 1 February 2019. Rising from a strongly socialist family in a Welsh mining community, to the dizzying heights of the UK New Town and urban regeneration programmes, his story is remarkable. Walking in the footsteps of his parents, Wyndham became a Labour councillor (and then the UK's youngest ever Mayor) for Hemel Hempstead, which was growing as a New Town. He stood as the Labour parliamentary candidate in the 1955 general election, with Aneurin Bevan speaking for him at a hustings rally. He was not elected and took up a scholarship at the London School of Economics on trade union studies, and was then appointed as Director of the TCPA, in which role he served from 1955 to 1967.