Edwin Wainwright
Edwin Wainwright was a British Labour Party politician.
Wainwright was educated at Darfield council school and Wombwell and Barnsley Technical College. He was a miner and a branch official and national executive member of the National Union of Mineworkers. For twenty years he served as a councillor on Wombwell Urban District Council.
Wainwright was the Member of Parliament for Dearne Valley from 1959 to 1983, when the seat was abolished in boundary changes.
