Background
Edelman, Maurice was born on March 2, 1911 in Cardiff, Wales. Son of Joshua and Ester (Solomon) Edelman.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Edelman, Maurice was born on March 2, 1911 in Cardiff, Wales. Son of Joshua and Ester (Solomon) Edelman.
He was educated at Cardiff High School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was an Exhibitioner in Modern Languages (French, German and later Russian).
He joined the plywood industry in 1931 as a company director and at the outbreak of the Second World War was engaged in research into the application of plywood and plastic materials to aircraft construction. Edelman was a prolific journalist and author of several works of fiction and non-fiction. His novels included A Trial of Love (1951), Who Goes Home? (1953), A Dream of Treason (1954), The Happy Ones (1957), A Call on Kuprim (1959), The Minister (1961), The Fratricides (1963), The Prime Minister's Daughter (1964), All on a Summer's Night (1969) and Disraeli In Love (1972).
His non-fiction works included France: The Birth of the Fourth Republic, and a biography of David Ben Gurion. He also produced screenplays for television broadcasts during the 1960s and 1970s. During the Second World War he worked for Picture Post as a war correspondent in North Africa and Italy.
He was a vice-chairman of the British Council and chairman of the Franco-British Parliamentary Relations Committee. Following further boundary changes in 1974, Edelman represented Coventry North West until his death. He appeared on the live television panel show "What's My Line?" from New York on 29 April 1962.
He died on 14 December 1975 aged 64.
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At the 1945 election Edelman was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry West. He was also president of the Anglo-Jewish Association, and an active member of the Friends of the Hebrew University.
Married Matilda Yager, 1932. Children: Sonia, Natasha.