William John Molloy, Baron Molloy (26 October 1918 – 26 May 2001) was a BritishLabour Party politician.
Molloy was born inSwansea in 1918, and educated at St Thomas Primary School andUniversity College, Swansea.
In World War II, Molloy served in theRoyal Engineers and in 1945 joined theForeign Office, where he became a senior staff representative on theWhitley Council. He left the civil service to pursue a political career in the Labour Party. He became a councillor inFulham in 1954, before becoming selected as parliamentary candidate for Ealing North in 1962.[1]
He was elected asMember of Parliament forEaling North from 1964 until the1979 general election, when he lost the seat to theConservativeHarry Greenway. Molloy was also aMember of the European Parliament from 1976 to 1977, supporting the "Get Britain Out" (of theEuropean Economic Community) campaign. After the loss of his seat in 1979, he was created alife peer on 12 May 1981, taking the titleBaron Molloy, ofEaling inGreater London.[2]
Baron Molloy was a member of theSylvan Debating Club.
Molloy was married twice: firstly, in 1942, to Eva Lewis: they had a daughter, Marion, who married Laurence Motl (1927-2019) ofSt Paul, Minnesota.[3] After Eva's death, Molloy married Doris Paines in 1981 (div.1987).
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