William John Molloy, Baron Molloy (26 October 1918 – 26 May 2001) was a British Labour Party politician.
Molloy was born in Swansea in 1918, and educated at St Thomas Primary School and University College, Swansea.
In World War II, Molloy served in the Royal Engineers and in 1945 joined the Foreign Office, where he became a senior staff representative on the Whitley Council. He left the civil service to pursue a political career in the Labour Party. He became a councillor in Fulham in 1954, before becoming selected as parliamentary candidate for Ealing North in 1962.[1]
He was elected as Member of Parliament for Ealing North from 1964 until the 1979 general election, when he lost the seat to the Conservative Harry Greenway. Molloy was also a Member of the European Parliament from 1976 to 1977, supporting the "Get Britain Out" (of the European Economic Community) campaign. After the loss of his seat in 1979, he was created a life peer on 12 May 1981, taking the title Baron Molloy, of Ealing in Greater London.[2]
Baron Molloy was a member of the Sylvan Debating Club.
Molloy was married twice: firstly, in 1942, to Eva Lewis: they had a daughter, Marion, who married Laurence Motl (1927-2019) of St Paul, Minnesota.[3] After Eva's death, Molloy married Doris Paines in 1981 (div.1987).
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