Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.473
Object Name
Mug
Title
'General Election South Glamorgan. July 19th 1895. Wyndham Quin. Majority 823.'
Place
South Glamorgan, Wales, UK
People
Conservative Party, Windham Wyndham-Quin
Events
Elections, 1895 General Election
Creator(s)
E. Jenkins Ewenny Pottery
Description
A ceramic twin handled mug created to commemorate the 1895 election victory of the Conservative Party's Windham Wyndham-Quin, MP in South Glamorgan. The base of the mug is etched with 'Undeb dros byth' which means 'Union forever' in Welsh.
Windham Wyndham-Quin, Earl Dunraven, (12 February 1841 â 14 June 1926) was a Conservative politician and an Anglo-Irish aristocrat who was elected in the working class Welsh constituency of South Glamorgan. This class difference between the people who lived in constituencies and those who represented them in parliament was typical at the time.
Wyndham-Quin served as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in the Salisbury government, campaigning for Home Rule (self governance) for colonised Ireland, and sat as a senator in the first Irish Senate following the foundation of the Irish Free State, from 1922-1926.
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