David Morris (Labour politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David Morris (Labour politician)

Welsh politician (1930–2007)

Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1930

Place of Birth: Kidderminster, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 24-Jan-2007

Profession: politician, peace activist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

David Morris (28 January 1930 – 24 January 2007) was a Welsh politician, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), chairman of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) Cymru and peace activist.Morris was born in Kidderminster, but adopted by a Welsh family.
He joined the Labour Party at the age of fifteen, and as a young man he worked in a steel foundry in Llanelli, South Wales.
During National Service in the late 1940s he was exempted from military service as a conscientious objector, conditional upon working down coal mines. He gained a scholarship to Ruskin College, Oxford, and became a Presbyterian minister in 1958. Morris became an anti-nuclear campaigner in 1957, opposing Operation Grapple X, in which Britain tested nuclear weapons including its first hydrogen bombs over the Pacific Ocean atoll of Christmas Island (now Kiritimati).