Llewellyn Heycock, Baron Heycock

Who was Llewellyn Heycock, Baron Heycock?

Llewellyn Heycock, Baron Heycock CBE was a Welsh local politician, who became a life peer in 1967.

Heycock was born in Margam and began his career as an engine driver with the Great Western Railway. He subsequently rose to a powerful position in South Wales local politics through his trade union connections and membership of the Labour Party, a "personality of transcendent authority". Despite having himself received little formal education, he became Chairman of the Glamorganshire Education Committee.

He became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1959, a Commander of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in April 1967, and a life peer on 10 July 1967 as Baron Heycock, of Taibach in the Borough of Port Talbot.