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    Sir Edward Richard George Heath KG MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), commonly known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister...
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  • George Edward Heath (30 March 1902 – 18 November 1969) was a British musician and big band leader. Heath led what is widely considered Britain's greatest...
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  • Edward Heath (1916–2005) served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974. Edward or Ted Heath may also refer to: Edward Bayard Heath...
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    Edward Heath of the Conservative Party formed the Heath ministry and was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II on 19 June...
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    British troops to Northern Ireland. After losing the 1970 election to Edward Heath's Conservatives, Wilson chose to remain in the Labour leadership, and...
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    James Edward Heath (October 25, 1926 – January 19, 2020), nicknamed Little Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader...
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    Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her secretary of state for education and science in his 1970–1974 government. In 1975, she defeated Heath in the Conservative...
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    electing the party leader. From 1970 to 1974 he was in the cabinet of Edward Heath as Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; this was...
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  • created and the first leadership election was held in 1965, won by Edward Heath. Edward Heath's 1970–74 government was known for taking the UK into the EEC,...
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    abortion, the relaxing of divorce laws, and the end of capital punishment. Edward Heath returned the Conservatives to power from 1970 to 1974 and oversaw the...
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  • House of Commons and Lord President of the Council by Prime Minister Edward Heath. After the suspension of the Stormont Parliament resulted in the imposition...
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  • Edward Heath formed a total of two non-consecutive Shadow Cabinets: First Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath, 1965–1970 Second Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath...
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  • to 1987. He served during the premierships of four prime ministers: Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher. In obituaries...
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    represented various constituencies in the House of Commons until 1992. In Edward Heath's government, he was solicitor general and a minister of state; after...
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    involvement in Vietnam, the governments of Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and Edward Heath provided differing degrees of rhetorical support for the USA's war effort...
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  • backed by shareholders and retained his position. British Prime Minister Edward Heath, referring to the case, criticised the company in the House of Commons...
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  • with Royal Dutch Shell and N M Rothschild & Sons, and an advisor to the Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher governments of the UK. He was a member of the prominent...
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  • State for Employment (1972–73) and Paymaster General (1973–74) under Edward Heath. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1972. Macmillan married the Honourable...
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    illegal. Wilson's government went on to be unexpectedly defeated by Edward Heath at the 1970 general election. Callaghan initially became Shadow Home...
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    both born in 1784 Harold Wilson (served 1964–1970 and 1974–1976) and Edward Heath (served 1970–1974), both born in 1916 The decade of the 1730s was the...
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    Heath Government and the Road to Brexit". In Roe-Crines, Andrew S.; Heppell, Timothy (eds.). Policies and politics under Prime Minister Edward Heath....
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  • minister, Edward Heath, if he would bring the Liberals into a coalition. His price for such a deal, reform of the electoral system, was rejected by Heath, who...
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  • from the original on 15 January 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2022. Robinson, Edward Heath (August 2013). "The Distinction Between State and Government". Geography...
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    The First Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath was created on 28 July 1965 after the Conservative Party elected Edward Heath as its leader, replacing Sir Alec...
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    philosopher and columnist Edward Gierek (1913–2001), First Secretary of Polish United Workers Party from 1970 to 1980 Edward Heath (1916–2005), British Conservative...
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    Greys, was sent to Northern Ireland with his unit but the Queen alerted Edward Heath, the prime minister, during her private audience, and he relayed a warning...
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    Adams could appear. Wilson had Alzheimers; Callaghan never liked us; and Edward Heath, who later appeared twice on After Dark, couldn't make it. So that was...
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    evening as prime minister he made a public show of taking the Chief Whip Edward Heath for oysters at the Turf Club. He became President of the Carlton Club...
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  • Margaret Thatcher as party leader on the second ballot. Incumbent leader Edward Heath stood aside after the first ballot, in which he unexpectedly finished...
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  • 2010) was a British Conservative politician who served in Cabinet under Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Worcester...
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