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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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    electing the party leader. From 1970 to 1974 he served in the cabinet of Edward Heath as Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; this was...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • The Crown (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Edward Heath)
    births of Prince Andrew and Prince Edward. The third season covers 1964 to 1977, including Harold Wilson and Edward Heath's terms as prime minister, the introduction...
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    from 1970 to 1980 Edward Heath (1916–2005), British Conservative politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 Edward Jayetileke, Chief...
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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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    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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    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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    The Heath Government and the Road to Brexit". In Andrew S. Roe-Crines, Timothy Heppell (ed.). Policies and Politics Under Prime Minister Edward Heath. Oxford:...
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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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    Douglas-Home had previously disclaimed his hereditary title as Earl of Home). Edward Heath did not accept a peerage of any kind and nor have any of the prime ministers...
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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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  • 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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    were for the most part respectful but sometimes rowdy at weekends. Edward Heath, then a government whip whom he had met at the Oxford Union, was his...
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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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    prime minister, just ahead of Clement Attlee. With the exception of Edward Heath, who was judged more favourably by Labour MPs than by Conservatives,...
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    controversial dismissal from the Shadow Cabinet by Conservative Party Leader Edward Heath. According to most accounts, the popularity of Powell's perspective on...
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    overall majority. The Conservative Party, led by incumbent Prime Minister Edward Heath, lost 28 seats (though it polled a higher share of the vote than Labour)...
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  • welfare state and the National Health Service. Thanks to Iain Macleod, Edward Heath and Enoch Powell, special attention after 1950 was paid to one-nation...
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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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    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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    larger free trade area, and the United Kingdom applied to join the EEC. Edward Heath, as Lord Privy Seal in the Macmillan government, led the negotiations...
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    minority government following a hung parliament and the failure of Edward Heath's Conservative government to form a coalition with the Liberals. Wilson...
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