Day 197: Francis

[Silent Hunter]

Hywel Francis, Lab, Aberavon.

[merseysider]

Don't know much about him; he's notable for taking over in 2001 from John Morris, who was the longest continually-serving Labour MP in the Commons, first elected in 1959 (Tony Benn was elected in 1950 but had interruptions due to his peerage in 1963, and his defeat in 1983).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

He's an academic and has written some good stuff on the involvement of Welsh miners in the Spanish Civil War.