Ffeil / File AB/3 - Llythyrau rhwng Mary Silyn Roberts ac Eirene Lloyd Jones = Letters between Mary Silyn Roberts and Eirene Lloyd Jones

Ganed Eirene White, y Farwnes White (g. Lloyd Jones) (1909-1999) yn Belfast, yn ferch i'r gwas sifil a'r addysgwr Dr Thomas Jones (1870-1955). Fe'i haddysgwyd yng Ngholeg Somerville, Rhydychen, lle'r astudiodd Athroniaeth, Gwleidyddiaeth ac Economeg. Yn ystod yr Ail Ryfel Byd, ymunodd â Gwasanaeth Gwirfoddol y Merched a'i phenodi'n Ysgrifenyddes Ranbarthol Cymru. Cynorthwyodd y Weinyddiaeth Lafur i hyfforddi gweithwyr yng Nghymru, yn arbennig merched, ar gyfer ymdrech y rhyfel. Bu'n gweithio tan 1945 gyda'r Bwrdd Addysg fel gwas sifil, ac, ar ôl y rhyfel, fel gohebydd gwleidyddol i'r Manchester Evening News a'r BBC. Ym 1947, fe'i hetholwyd yn aelod o Bwyllgor Gweithredol Cenedlaethol y Blaid Lafur (adran y merched). Fe'i hetholwyd yn aelod seneddol Llafur dros Ddwyrain Fflint ym 1950, un o'r gwleidyddion benywaidd cyntaf yng Nghymru. Pan gymerodd Llafur awennau'r llywodraeth ym 1964, fe'i phenodwyd yn is-ysgrifenyddes seneddol y Swyddfa Drefedigaethol. Ym 1966, fe'i phenodwyd yn Weinidog Gwladol Materion Tramor a'r flwyddyn ganlynol yn Weinidog Gwladol y Swyddfa Gymreig. Ym 1970, cafodd ei hurddo'n arglwyddes am oes, gan fabwysiadu'r teitl y Farwnes White. = Eirene White, Baroness White (née Lloyd Jones) (1909-1999) was born in Belfast, the daughter of the civil servant and educationalist Dr Thomas Jones (1870-1955). She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. During the Second World War, she joined the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) and was appointed Regional Secretary for Wales. She was recruited by the Ministry of Labour to help train workers in Wales, particularly women, for the war effort. Until 1945 she worked as a civil servant for the Board of Education, then, after the war, as political correspondent for both the Manchester Evening News and the BBC. In 1947 she was elected a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee (women's section). In 1950, she was elected as Labour member of parliament for East Flint, one of the first female politicians in Wales. When the Labour government came to power in 1964, she was appointed parliamentary under-secretary at the Colonial Office. In 1966, she was appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and, the following year, Minister of State for the Welsh Office. In 1970, she was awarded a life peerage, assuming the title Baroness White.

Sefydlwyd y Central Committee on Women's Employment (CCWE), yn ddiweddarach y Central Committee on Women's Training and Employment, ym mis Awst 1914 er mwyn darparu gwaith ar gyfer merched, yn arbennig y merched hynny a wnaethpwyd yn ddiwaith oherwydd y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf. Ym 1920, daeth y CCWE yn Bwyllgor Sefydlog yn Nhŷ'r Cyffredin. = The Central Committee on Women's Employment (CCWE), later known as the Central Committee on Women’s Training and Employment, was created in August 1914 to provide employment for women, especially those who had become unemployed as a result of the First World War. In 1920, it became a standing committee in the House of Commons.