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    Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH, PC (/sændz/; 24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987), was a British politician and minister in successive...
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    to Sandy Duncan. Biography portal Sandy Duncan at IMDb  Sandy Duncan at the TCM Movie Database Sandy Duncan at the Internet Broadway Database Sandy Duncan...
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    Diana Churchill (redirect from Diana Sandys)
    poll back to Diana Spencer Churchill. With Duncan Sandys she had three children: The Honourable Julian Sandys (19 September 1936 – 15 August 1997). He married...
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  • Edwina Sandys MBE (born 22 December 1938) is an English artist and sculptor. She is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill. Sandys was a debutante, and...
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  • grandson of Winston Churchill, a nephew of one-time Defence Secretary Duncan Sandys and his wife Diana Churchill, of journalist Randolph Churchill, and...
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    Winston Spencer-Churchill: family tree and Dukes of Marlborough by Duncan Sandys, Baron Sandys by Pamela Digby by June Osborne by Christopher Soames, Baron...
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    speculated that this "headless man" was the Minister of Defence Duncan Sandys (later Lord Duncan-Sandys, former son-in-law of Winston Churchill), who offered to...
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    Canada and the United States of America. The Congress, organized by Duncan Sandys and Józef Retinger, brought together representatives from across a broad...
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    July 1947, when the cause of a united Europe was being promoted by Duncan Sandys in the form of the Anglo-French United European Movement (UEM). The...
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  • Funny Face and The Sandy Duncan Show are two American sitcoms aired by CBS starring Sandy Duncan as part of its 1971 and 1972 fall lineups, respectively...
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    offences under that Act). It was enacted in reaction to the "Sandys affair" in 1938, when Duncan Sandys MP was threatened with prosecution under section 6 in...
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    Harold Arthur Watkinson: Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Duncan Edwin Sandys: Minister of Defence The Lord Mills: Minister of Power Henry Brooke:...
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  • Winston Churchill. Hugo Duncan Dixon was born in December 1963 to the Conservative MP Piers Dixon and the artist Edwina Sandys. The couple divorced in...
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  • about a rumoured flying bomb and orders Duncan Sandys, his son-in-law and a minister, to investigate. Sandys is convinced by intelligence and photo-reconnaissance...
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    The Human Jungle, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. He also portrayed Duncan Sandys in Operation Crossbow (1965). Johnson was second billed to Kim Novak...
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  • Lord Sandys may refer to: Baron Sandys, a British title that has been created three times, currently held by the Marquess of Downshire Duncan Sandys (1908–1987)...
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    "the greatest act of nepotism ever". Macmillan's Defence Minister, Duncan Sandys, wrote at the time: "Eden had no gift for leadership; under Macmillan...
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    February 2010. Sandys, Duncan (October–December 1943). "Reports by Bodyline Joint Staff Committee". The Papers of Lord Duncan-Sandys. Churchill Archives...
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    having done so. Duncan Sandys was the only one of Randolph's Conservative opponents to win; Randolph soon became jealous when Sandys joined the family...
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    John Sandys (/ˈsændz/; 23 September 1875 – 3 September 1937) was a British diplomat and Conservative politician. Sandys was the son of James Sandys, of...
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    proposals in their development plans. In 1955, Minister of Housing Duncan Sandys encouraged local authorities around the country to consider protecting...
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  • industry but probably the most affected was the British aircraft industry. Duncan Sandys, the recently appointed Minister of Defence, produced the paper. The...
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    have included Charles Wyndham, Harold Macmillan, Randolph Churchill, Duncan Sandys and the cartoonist Osbert Lancaster, who featured the armchair and stuffed...
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    firm orders, so the aircraft was a commercial failure. On 17 July 1953 Duncan Sandys, the Minister of Supply, announced that the Brabazon had been cancelled...
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  • Sandy Duncan (born 1946) is an American actress and singer. Sandy Duncan may also refer to: Sandy Duncan (athlete) (1912–2005), English athlete Sandy...
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  • had affairs with other men including actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Duncan Sandys, the minister of defence. The marriage was childless and they divorced...
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    between 2010 and 2015. The daughter of Duncan Sandys through his second marriage to Marie-Claire (née Schmitt), Sandys was born on 5 June 1964 and christened...
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    Uncontested wartime by-election caused by Lane-Mitchell's resignation 1950 Duncan Sandys Conservative 1974 Sir William Shelton Conservative 1992 Keith Hill Labour...
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    favourite to meet Operational Requirement F.155. However, on 4 April 1957, Duncan Sandys, the Minister of Defence, announced the effective termination of nearly...
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    publication of the infamous 1957 Defence White Paper by Minister of Defence Duncan Sandys, which had called for manned fighter aircraft to be phased out and replaced...
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