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