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  • Photographed by Geoff Charles. Here, Lady Megan Lloyd George is seen presenting the petition to Goronwy Roberts, MP for Caernarfonshire. In the background are Sir Ifan ap Owen Edwards, Elwyn Roberts, T. W. Jones MP, T. I. Ellis and Gwynfor Evans, President of Plaid Cymru. The petition was signed by 240,652 individuals (about 14 per cent of the total Welsh electorate). Further reading: J. Graham Jones, 'S. O. Davies and the Government of Wales Bill, 1955', 'Llafur', vol. 8, no. 3 (2002).
Presenting a petition calling for a Parliament for Wales, Neuadd Idris, Dolgellau, Dolgellau, 12 April 1956