About William Henry Guy
Lived 1890 – 1968 (aged 77–78). William Henry Guy was a British politician.
William Henry Guy (1890 – 1 August 1968) was a British Labour Party politician.
The son of a blacksmith, he came from a family of 21 children. He remained a member of the LCC until its abolition in 1965, latterly representing Poplar.
Guy retained the seat at the 1945 general election, but retired from the Commons at the 1950 election, when the Poplar South constituency was abolished. He became a member of Poplar Borough Council, and was mayor of Poplar in 1953. He was a director of the Amalgamated Tobacco Corporation.
He died in Poplar in August 1968.
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British politician (1890-1968)
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