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    Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill, PC, QC (23 July 1902 – 1 January 1979) was a British lawyer and Labour Party politician. Soskice's father was the exiled...
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  • Soskice is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: David Soskice (born 1942), British political economist and academic Frank Soskice (1902–1979)...
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    Longford, KG, PC (5 December 1905 – 3 August 2001), known to his family as Frank Longford and styled Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician...
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  • of Economics. Soskice was born as son of the British Labour Home Secretary Frank Soskice and his wife Susan Isabella Cloudsley Soskice (née Hunter) in...
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  • The result of a prolonged campaign was that the Home Secretary, Sir Frank Soskice, ordered a new inquiry chaired by High Court judge Sir Daniel Brabin...
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    Hueffer and his sister was Juliet Hueffer, the wife of David Soskice and mother of Frank Soskice. Ford's father, who became music critic for The Times, was...
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    Bristol Bus Boycott occurred. The act was drafted by Home Secretary Frank Soskice with some cross-party cooperation. The bill was given royal assent on...
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    In the summer of 1965, Jenkins eagerly accepted an offer to replace Frank Soskice as Home Secretary. However Wilson, dismayed by a sudden bout of press...
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    Sir Hartley Shawcross 4 August 1945   Sir Frank Soskice 24 April 1951   Solicitor General Sir Frank Soskice 4 August 1945   Sir Lynn Ungoed-Thomas 24...
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    Juliet Catherine Emma Soskice (née Hueffer; 1881–1944) was an English translator and writer. She was the daughter of Francis Hueffer and Catherine Madox...
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    Patrick Mayhew, John Hobson, Reginald Manningham-Buller, Lionel Heald, Frank Soskice, David Maxwell Fyfe, Donald Somervell, William Jowitt; Directors of...
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  • Greene and Harold Wilson on 5 September, and again to the Home Secretary Frank Soskice on 6 October. In her view, a decision over whether to broadcast Watkins'...
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    novelist Ford Madox Ford and great-grandfather of Labour Home Secretary Frank Soskice. Brown's second wife died in October 1890, and he died in Primrose Hill...
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    Clement Attlee Preceded by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe Succeeded by Sir Frank Soskice Member of Parliament for St Helens In office 5 July 1945 – May 1958...
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    for Hampstead 14 July 1962 16 October 1964 Conservative Douglas-Home Frank Soskice MP for Newport 18 October 1964 23 December 1965 Labour Wilson (I & II)...
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  • Roberts MP, and Basil Wigoder, who offered their services free. Sir Frank Soskice, the Attorney General, appeared as amicus curiae. The verdict was upheld...
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    Earl of Longford 18 October 1964 also Leader of the House of Lords Sir Frank Soskice 23 December 1965   The Earl of Longford 6 April 1966 also Leader of...
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    Shawcross MP for St Helens 4 August 1945 24 April 1951 Labour Attlee Frank Soskice MP for Sheffield Neepsend 24 April 1951 26 October 1951 Lionel Heald...
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    replaced as the representative of the UK by then-solicitor general Frank Soskice. The ICJ delivered its judgment on the objection on 25 March 1948, voting...
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    Douglas-Home Frank Pakenham 7th Earl of Longford 18 October 1964 December 1965 Leader of the House of Lords Labour Wilson (I & II) Frank Soskice MP for Newport...
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    Macmillan Sir Alec Douglas-Home Preceded by Rab Butler Succeeded by Sir Frank Soskice Chief Secretary to the Treasury In office 9 October 1961 – 13 July 1962...
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  • Alec Douglas-Home: 1950, 1963 b Frank Soskice: 1950 b, 1956 b Richard Law: 1945 b, 1951 Hyacinth Morgan: 1940b, 1950b Frank Markham: 1935, 1951 Sir Herbert...
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    March 1962 Labour George Brown 12 March 1962 15 February 1963 Labour Frank Soskice 15 February 1963 15 October 1964 Labour Wilson I Edward Boyle 15 October...
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  • by-election: For Frank Cousins. 1965 Leyton by-election: For Patrick Gordon Walker (defeated). 1950 Sheffield Neepsend by-election: For Frank Soskice. February...
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  • Harry Morris, agreed to step down in order that Government Minister Frank Soskice could gain a seat in the Commons in the 1950 by-election. The County...
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    Lancaster in the British government. The Earl of Longford succeeded Sir Frank Soskice as Lord Privy Seal, and Frederick Lee became Secretary of State for...
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    and officially opened on 8 May 1966 by the then Home Secretary, Sir Frank Soskice, in the presence of Game's widow, who unveiled a plaque in memory of...
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  • politician and landowner John Savage (politician; Premier of Nova Scotia) Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill James Henry Thomas Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar...
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    Thailand's legal team included a former British attorney general, Sir Frank Soskice. Cambodia contended the map showing the temple as being on Cambodian...
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    time the only senior dissenting voice was that of the Home Secretary, Frank Soskice. Although willing to accept the right of petition, he objected to the...
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