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Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Dafydd Elis Thomas) was born on 18 October, 1946 in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales, is a Welsh politician (born 1946). Discover Dafydd Elis-Thomas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 18 October 1946
Birthday 18 October
Birthplace Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Nationality Wales

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His wife is Elen Williams Mair Parry Jones (present)

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1946

Dafydd Elis Elis-Thomas, Baron Elis-Thomas, (Thomas; born 18 October 1946), is a Welsh politician who served as the leader of Plaid Cymru from 1984 to 1991 and represented the Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency in the Senedd from 1999 to 2021.

Born in Carmarthen, Wales, he was raised in Ceredigion and the Conwy Valley.

Dafydd Elis Thomas was born on 18 October 1946 at Priory Hospital, Carmarthen, and brought up in the Llandysul area of Ceredigion, and in Llanrwst in the Conwy Valley.

1970

In 1970, he married Elen Williams and had three sons.

They later divorced.

Having come third at Conwy in the 1970 general election, Thomas served as MP for Merioneth between 1974 and 1983, initially as the Baby of the House, and subsequently as MP for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy from 1983 to 1992.

1974

He represented Merioneth and later Meirionnydd Nant Conwy as a member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1992, and was Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales (now Llywydd of the Senedd) from the office's inception in 1999 to 2011.

On entering the House of Commons in 1974, he became one of the first MPs to be allowed to take the oath of allegiance in Welsh as well as in English.

1980

From the mid-1980s until 1992 his partner was Marjorie Thompson, the chairwoman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

1992

Elis-Thomas has been a member of the House of Lords since 1992 and a privy counsellor since 2004.

He was also a director and vice-chairman of Cynefin Environmental Ltd. between 1992 and 1999.

He was created a life peer on 18 September 1992 as Baron Elis-Thomas, of Nant Conwy in the County of Gwynedd, with a change of his surname from Thomas to Elis-Thomas.

1993

In 1993, he married Mair Parry-Jones.

He lives in Llandaff, Cardiff (when working at the Senedd) and Betws-y-Coed (in the Aberconwy constituency, but prior to boundary changes in his constituency).

1994

He was the chairman of the Welsh Language Board between 1994 and 1999, and is a former member of the Arts Council of Wales and the British Film Institute where he was Chairman of Screen between 1992 and 1999.

1999

Elis-Thomas was elected to the newly established National Assembly for Wales (now called "Senedd Cymru" or "the Welsh Parliament", or simply Senedd) in 1999, representing the Meirionnydd Nant Conwy constituency until the 2007 election, and then the Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency.

He also held the position of Presiding Officer from the Assembly's inception in 1999 until 2011.

2000

A former university lecturer, he has also been the president of Bangor University since 2000, as well as currently being a member of the governing body of the Church in Wales.

2004

During his tenure as Presiding Officer, he expelled Assembly member Leanne Wood from the Assembly chamber during a December 2004 debate after Wood referred to Queen Elizabeth II as "Mrs Windsor" during a debate and refused to withdraw the remark, the first time an AM was ordered out of the chamber on those grounds.

2011

From 2011, Elis-Thomas was Plaid Cymru's spokesperson for Environment, Energy and Planning before transferring to Rural Affairs, Fisheries and Food in 2012.

2012

He sat as a crossbench peer because at that time he had taken on the non-political role of chair of the Welsh Language Board; in 2012, he took the Plaid Cymru whip in the Lords until leaving the party in 2016.

2016

In 2016, he left Plaid Cymru to support Carwyn Jones's government in the Senedd, sitting as an independent.

In October 2016 he left Plaid Cymru, but remained in the Assembly as an Independent member.

2017

He joined the Welsh Government in November 2017 and was Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism until May 2021.

Elis-Thomas applied to re-join Plaid Cymru in August 2023.

But he withdrew his application later on in the year.

In November 2017, as part of a Welsh Government reshuffle, Elis-Thomas was appointed as Minister for Culture, Tourism and Sport.

Elis-Thomas is also Honorary President of the anti-fascist organisation Searchlight Cymru.

2020

He announced on Dewi Llwyd's BBC Radio Cymru programme on 12 April 2020 that he will not be standing in the 2021 Senedd election.

After long consideration he said that he will not be standing in Dwyfor Meirionnydd in 2021, but said that there are many other ways to serve society.