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| 15th | Top Privy Counsellors (1952%E2%80%93present): 1999 |
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Honourable The Lord Williams of Mostyn PC QC |
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In office 13 June 2003 – 20 September 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
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| Preceded by | John Reid |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Amos |
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In office 8 June 2001 – 20 September 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Jay of Paddington |
| Succeeded by | The Baroness Amos |
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In office 8 June 2001 – 13 June 2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | The Baroness Jay of Paddington |
| Succeeded by | Peter Hain |
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In office 29 July 1999 – 8 June 2001 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | John Morris |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Goldsmith |
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| Born | 5 February 1941 Prestatyn, United Kingdom |
| Died | 20 September 2003 (aged 62) Gloucestershire, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Pauline Clarke Veena Russell |
| Alma mater | Queens' College, Cambridge |
Gareth Wyn Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, PC, QC, (5 February 1941 - 20 September 2003) was a British Labour politician who was Leader of the House of Lords, Lord President of the Council and a member of the Cabinet at the time of his sudden death in 2003.
Williams was born near Prestatyn, in north Wales, a son of Albert Thomas Williams and his wife Selina, née Evans. He was educated at Rhyl Grammar School and at Queens' College, Cambridge.
He had a successful legal career, becoming a Queen's Counsel, Recorder, Deputy High Court Judge and Chairman of the Bar Council. He was made a life peer as Baron Williams of Mostyn, of Great Tew in Oxfordshire in 1992 and became an opposition spokesman in the House of Lords on Legal Affairs, and later Northern Ireland. After Labour's election victory he became a Home Office minister, and in 1999 was appointed Attorney General for England and Wales and Northern Ireland. He became Leader of the House of Lords and Lord Privy Seal in 2001 (switching over to Lord President of the Council in 2003).
It is a significant feature of his political career that every office he held was an unelected appointment; he was never actually elected to any public office.
Lord Williams married firstly in 1962 Pauline, daughter of Ernest Clarke, and by her had two daughters, Martha (born 1963) and Emma (born 1966), and a son, Daniel (born 1969). They divorced, and he married secondly in 1994 Veena M Russell, and by her had one daughter, Imogen.
He collapsed and died suddenly at his home in Gloucestershire, at the age of 62. He was survived by his four children.
As part of the celebrations to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Life Peerages Act, Lord Williams was voted by the current members of the House of Lords as the outstanding life peer since the creation of the life peerage.[1]
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| Preceded by John Morris |
Attorney General for
England and Wales 1999–2001 |
Succeeded by The Lord Goldsmith |
| Attorney General for
Northern Ireland 1999–2001 |
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| Preceded by The Baroness Jay of Paddington |
Lord Privy
Seal 2001–2003 |
Succeeded by Peter Hain |
| Leader of the House of
Lords 2001–2003 |
Succeeded by The Baroness Amos |
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| Preceded by John Reid |
Lord President of the
Council 2003 |
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   | Leader of House of Lords dies - BBC NEWS | UK | Politics | Leader of House of Lords dies |
| | Interview: Lord Williams - Interview: Lord Williams | Politics | guardian.co.uk |
| | Lords loses smooth operator - BBC NEWS | UK | Politics | Lords loses smooth operator |
| | Tributes to a superb wit - BBC NEWS | UK | Politics | Tributes to a superb wit |
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