Granville West, Baron Granville-West’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British politician
Was Politician 
From United Kingdom 
Type Politics 
Gender male
Birth 17 March 1904, Newport
Death 23 September 1984, Pontypool
(aged 80 years)

Daniel Granville West, Baron Granville-West (17 March 1904 – 23 September 1984) was a British Labour politician.
Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, West studied law at the University College of Wales where he took the departmental first prize. He worked as a solicitor. He served as a councillor on Monmouthshire County Council 1939-47. During World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
West was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontypool in a by-election in July 1946 and became Parliamentary Private Secretary to James Chuter Ede, Home Secretary, in 1950.
He was created a life peer as Baron Granville-West, of Pontypool in the County of Monmouth in 1958, and was succeeded as MP for Pontypool by Leo Abse. He died in Pontypool aged 80.

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