Pontypridd Urban District Council

Pontypridd Urban District Council was a local authority in Glamorgan, Wales. It was created in 1894 as a result of the 1894 Local Government of England and Wales Act. The Council existed until 1973 and replaced the Pontypridd Local Board of Health which had functioned for some years. Its boundaries were set in 1894. Initially, the Council had eighteen members but this number was increased in the 1930s, as a result of the increase in population. There were initially six wards, namely Cilfynydd, Graig, Pontypridd Town, Rhondda, Trallwn and Treforest; a seventh ward, Rhydyfelin, was added in the 1930s.

The first councillors were elected at the December 1894 elections. Most of the first members of the authority had served on the Local Board.

In the years leading up to the First World War, representatives of the Labour Party began to gain ground.

In 1974 the authority was abolished, and together with the former rural district of Llantrisant and Llantwit Fardre, and some outlying areas, formed the Taff Ely Borough Council which, in turn, was subsumed into the unitary authority of Rhondda Cynon Taff in 1996.

Pontypridd Urban District Council, Chairpersons

James F. Roberts, 1895-1898
Patrick Gowan, 1898-1899
R. T. Richards, 1899-1900
Hugh Bramwell, 1900-1901
Hopkin Morgan, 1901-1902
Frederick George Edwards, 1902-1903
William Lewis, 1903-1904
William Howell Gronow, 1904-1905
Edward Williams, 1906-1907
David Evans, 1908-1909
Moses Jones, 1909-1910
David Williams, 1910-1911
D. R. Evans, 1912-1913
Hopkin Morgan, 1914-1915
David Jenkins, 1915-1916
William Phillips, 1917-1918
David Lewis Davies, 1918-1919
Arthur Seaton, 1920-1921
David Williams, 1921-1922
Moses Jones, 1922-1923
Thomas Taylor, 1923-1924
W. J. Davies, 1924-1925
David Lewis Davies, 1925-1926
(Rev) D. G. Hughes, 1927-1928
Dan Evans, 1928-1929
Evan Morgan, 1929-1930
Robert Roper, 1931-1932
Artemus Seymour, 1933-1934
George Paget, 1934-1935
William Jones, 1935-1936
Jack Jones, 1936-1937
Arthur Pearson, 1937-1938
Walter Collier, 1938-1939
F. Morgan Phillips, 1939-1940
Jesse Powderhill, 1940-1941
Evan Morgan, 1941-1942
Edwin Rowbotham, 1942-1943
C. H. James, 1943-1945
Hopkin Smith, 1945-1946
H. Gardner, 1946-1947
George Paget, 1947-1948
David J. Richards, 1948-1949
H. G. Joshua, 1949-1950
Blodwen Randall, 1950-1951
Arthur R. Watkins, 1951-1952
H. G. A. Darke, 1952-1953
Arthur Brown, 1953-1954
John Stallard, 1954-1955
J. R. Clayton, 1955-1956
D. G. Ball, 1956-1957
S. Jones, 1957-1958
Llewellyn Hopkin, 1958-1959
J. Howell Davies, 1959-1960
F. J. C. Warner, 1960-1961
Emrys W. Peck. 1961-1962
A. W. B. Higgins, 1962-1963
Gwladys May Williams, 1963-1964
J. Ll. Williams, 1964-1965
Richard Evans, 1965-1966
Norman J. Randell, 1966-1967
John Davies, 1967-1968
William John Cheesman, 1968-1969
J. C. Anzani, 1969-1970
Reginald Price, 1970-1971
Mary G. Murphy, 1971-1972
G. H. Paget, 1972-1973

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1894

The first election to Pontypridd Urban District Council was held in December 1894. Three councillors were elected in each ward.^[1]

(**) indicates previous membership of the Local Board of Health.^[2]

After the election, the initial composition of the council was as follows.

	Councillors	Total
Liberal	10	10
Conservative	5	5
Independent	2	2
Labour	1	1

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1894
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal	Thomas Williams	276
Conservative	William Lewis	251
Liberal	William Howell Gronow	158
Conservative	W. H. Watkins	127
Liberal	Isaac Davies	87

Graig

Graig Ward 1894
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	David Leyshon**	386
Liberal	James Spickett	321
Liberal	Hopkin Morgan**	302
Lib-Lab	William Morgan	279
Independent	Samuel Evans	274

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1894
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal	Patrick Gowan**	438
Conservative	Horatio M. Rowlands**	346
Independent	Hugh Bramwell**	227
Liberal	Dewi Llewellyn	214

Town Ward

Town Ward 1894
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal	D. R. Evans	249
Liberal	William Williams	213
Conservative	William Seaton**	213
Independent	William R. Beith	203
Conservative	John Snape**	171
Liberal	Daniel Arnott	156
Conservative	George Evans	87

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward 1894
	Candidate	Votes
Independent	Thomas Taylor**	299
Labour	Frederick George Edwards	271
Liberal	Watkin Williams	222
Conservative	H. J. Wilshire	218
Liberal	Daniel Griffiths	150
Independent	David Davies	90

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1894
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	T. R. Hamlen Williams	402
Liberal	R. T. Richards**	381
Liberal	James Roberts**	212
Lib-Lab	Frederick Judd	192
Independent	J. Gibbon	127
Liberal	Thomas. O. Brown**	64

Pontypridd Urban District council by-election, 1895

Although no elections to Pontypridd Urban District council were scheduled for 1895, the first full year of the council's existence, the death of William Williams created a vacancy in the Town Ward.^[3] There was no change to the overall composition of the council, following the by-election held on 13 May 1895.^[4]

Town Ward By-Election 1895
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Donald McGregor	215
	Conservative	J. F. McClune	195

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1896

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1896 there were contests in three of the six wards.^[5]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1896
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Howell Gronow*	unopposed

Graig Ward

Graig Ward 1896
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal	Hopkin Morgan*	288
Conservative	Samuel Evans	238
Liberal	W.C.M. Groves	59

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1896
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hugh Bramwell*	unopposed

Town Ward

William Seaton, elected the previous year, stood down after the council resolved that he, rather than another member elected in a by-election during the year, should seek re-election.^[6]

Town Ward 1896
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Lewis Phillips	272
	Liberal	Daniel Arnott	249

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Watkin Williams*	326
	Conservative	Edward Williams	253

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1896
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Roberts	unopposed

Pontypridd Urban District council by-election, 1896

A by-election was held in Cilfynydd at the end of April 1896 to fill the vacancy left by the departure of Thomas Williams.^[7]

Cilfynydd Ward By-Election 1896
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	T. B. Evans	326
	Conservative	W. H. Watkins	206

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1897

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1897 there were contests in three of the six wards.^[8]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1897
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Lewis*	unopposed

Graig Ward

Graig Ward 1897
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James E. Spickett*	334
	Conservative	Samuel Evans	331

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1897
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dewi Llewellyn	532
	Conservative	Horatio M. Rowlands*	457

Town Ward

Town Ward 1897
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	William Jones-Powell	205
Liberal	Donald McGregor*	190
Independent	Arthur O. Evans	141

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward 1897
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frederick George Edwards*	unopposed

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1897
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	R. T. Richards*	unopposed

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1898

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1898 there were contests in three of the six wards.^[9]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1898
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	W. R. Davies	unopposed

Graig Ward

Graig Ward 1898
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	W. T. Leyshon	356
Liberal	J. W. Jones	207
Labour	Moses Severn	83

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1898
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Patrick Gowan*	638
		T. Jones	336

Town Ward

Town Ward 1898
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	D. R. Evans*	319
	Independent	Edwin Phillips	267

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward 1898
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Williams	390
	Liberal	Thomas Taylor	306

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1898
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	T. R. Hamlen Williams	424
		Benjamin Rees	302

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1899

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1899 there were contests in two of the six wards.

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1899
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Howell Gronow	unopposed

Graig Ward

Graig Ward 1899
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hopkin Morgan	unopposed

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1899
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hugh Bramwell	unopposed

Town Ward

Town Ward 1899
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Lewis Phillips	350
	Liberal	Thomas Rowlands	192

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward 1899
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Taylor	464
	Liberal	Watkin Williams*	314

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1899
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Roberts	unopposed

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1900

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1900 there were contests in four of the six wards.^[10]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1900
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Lewis*	unopposed

Graig Ward

Graig Ward 1900
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samuel Evans	364
	Independent	Henry Hibbert	289

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1900
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	John Thomas	350
Conservative	Horatio M. Rowlands*	342
Liberal	William Phillips	270
Liberal	Benjamin Jones	3

Town Ward

Town Ward 1900
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Jones-Powell*	290
	Liberal	Donald McGregor	257

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward 1900
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frederick George Edwards*	476
	Liberal	William Thomas	284

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1900
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	R. T. Richards*	unopposed

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1901

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1901 there were contests in four of the six wards.^[11]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1901
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	T. B. Evans	unopposed

Graig

Graig Ward 1901
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Henry Hibbert	387
	Labour	Moses Severn	195

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1901
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		David Thomas	556
	Conservative	Horatio M. Rowland*	196

Town Ward

Town Ward 1901
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Seaton	324
	Liberal	D. R. Evans*	299

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward 1901
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Edward Williams	unopposed

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1901
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		D. Evans	403
		J. Gibbon	219

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1902

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1902 there were contests in two of the six wards.^[12]^[13]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1902
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Howell Gronow*	unopposed

Graig

Graig Ward 1902
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hopkin Morgan*	unopposed

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1902
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hugh Bramwell*	681
	Labour	David Thomas	238

Town Ward

Town Ward 1902
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Jones	332
	Conservative	Richard Lewis Phillips*	276

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward 1902
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Taylor*	unopposed

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1902
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Roberts*	unopposed

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1903

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1903 there were contests in three of the six wards.^[14]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1903
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Lewis*	unopposed

Graig Ward

Graig Ward 1903
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal	David Williams	402
Independent	Father MacManus	156
Liberal	G. G. Jones	147
Conservative	Frederick King	35

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1903
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Moses Jones	398
	Conservative	John Thomas*	388

Town Ward

Town Ward 1903
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Daniel Arnott	367
	Conservative	William Jones-Powell*	265

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward 1903
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Frederick George Edwards*	unopposed

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1903
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	R. T. Richards*	unopposed

Pontypridd Urban District council by-election, 1903

A by-election was held in the Town ward in May 1903 to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Arthur Seaton.^[15]^[16]

Town Ward By-election 1903
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	D. R. Evans	375
	Conservative	R. L. Phillips	276

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1904

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1904 there were contests in three of the six wards.^[17]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1904
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	T. B. Evans*	unopposed

Graig Ward

Graig Ward 1904
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal	Aneurin T. Evans	206
	W. J. Davies	199
Independent	Henry Hibbert*	136
	J. W. John	88

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1904
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	David Thomas	unopposed

Town Ward

Town Ward 1904
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	D. R. Evans*	382
		W. Jones	268

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward 1904
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Edward Williams	471
	Liberal	John Lewis	427

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1904
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		D. Evans*	unopposed

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1905

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1905 there was a contest in only one of the six wards.^[18]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1905
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Howell Gronow*	unopposed

Graig Ward

Graig Ward 1905
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hopkin Morgan*	563
	Independent	Henry Hibbert	192

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1905
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hugh Bramwell*	unopposed

Town Ward

Town Ward 1905
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	William Jones*	unopposed

Note: Jones's potential opponent, H. E. Crane, dropped out of the race before election day.^[19]

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward 1905
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Taylor*	unopposed

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1905
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Roberts*	unopposed

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1906

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1906 there were contests in three of the six wards.^[20]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1906
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		William Lewis*	unopposed

Graig Ward

Graig Ward 1906
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	David Williams*	unopposed

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1906
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Moses Jones*	603
		W. Thomas	480

Town Ward

Town Ward 1906
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Daniel Arnott*	unopposed

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward 1906
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal	M. Julian	363
Liberal	W. C. Hinckley	315
Labour	W. Byer	258

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1906
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	R. T. Richards*	657
	Independent	Henry Hibbert	102

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1907

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1907 there were contests in four of the six wards.^[21]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1907
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	T. B. Evans*	unopposed

Graig Ward

Graig Ward 1907
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal	Aneurin T. Evans*	365
Independent	Henry Hibbert	265
Conservative	Thomas Jones	144

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1907
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	David Thomas*	648
	Liberal	E. Jenkins	467

Town Ward

Town Ward 1907
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	D. R. Evans*	367
	Conservative	Arthur Seaton	315

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward 1907
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Edward Williams*	469
	Liberal	John Lewis	455

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1907
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
		D. Evans*	unopposed

Pontypridd Urban District council election, 1908

In the Pontypridd Urban District Council election of 1908 there were contests in three of the six wards, most notably in Cilfynydd - the first contested election there since the by-election in 1896.^[22]

(*) denotes sitting member

Cilfynydd Ward

Cilfynydd Ward 1908
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Lib-Lab	William Howell Gronow*	478
	Labour	Artemus Seymour	160

Graig Ward

Graig Ward 1908
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal	Hopkin Morgan*	344
Independent	Henry Hibbert	221
Labour	J. Baker	101

Rhondda Ward

Rhondda Ward 1908
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Hugh Bramwell*	unopposed

Town Ward

Town Ward 1908
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Arthur Seaton	364
	Liberal	William Jones*	321

Trallwn Ward

Trallwn Ward 1908
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Taylor*	unopposed

Treforest Ward

Treforest Ward 1908
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	James Roberts*	unopposed

Notable members of the Council

Walter Morgan, solicitor
Arthur Pearson, Member of Parliament.
David Lewis Davies, Member of Parliament

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^ "Pontypridd District Council Election". Pontypridd Chronicle. 2 April 1896. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
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