Anthony Barber, interviewed as the results of the 1970 general election are declared The Right Honourable Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber, Baron Barber, PC (4 July 1920 – 16 December 2005), was a British Conservative politician who served as a member of both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Anthony Barber, interviewed as the results of the 1970 election are declared This work is copyrighted. ...
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Barber was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by Edward Heath in 1970 after the early death of Iain Macleod, serving in that capacity until 1974. He became Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank after retiring from front-line politics in 1974, from that 1974 to 1987. The Rt. ...
Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG , MBE (July 9, 1916 â July 17, 2005), soldier and politician, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. ...
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The Right Honourable Iain Macleod, PC (1913 â 1970) was a UK Conservative politician. ...
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Birth and early life
Barber was the third son of John Barber and his Danish wife, Musse. . Barber's unusual forenames arose from his mother, who contributed the "Lysberg", and French grandmother, who contributed the "Perrinott". His father was secretary-director of a Doncaster confectionery works. He had two brothers: Noel, who became a well-known journalist and novelist, and Keith, who became secretary of Midland Bank. Map sources for Doncaster at grid reference SE5702 Doncaster is a town in South Yorkshire, (and in the former West Riding of Yorkshire), England. ...
A selection of confectioneries The term confectionery refers to food items that are (at least perceptibly) rich in sugar. ...
Keith Barber is a professor of physical geography at the University of Southampton. ...
The Midland Bank (now part of HSBC) opened as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836. ...
Barber was educated at King Edward VI's Grammar School in Retford,Nottinghamshire. He became an articled clerk, but joined the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry shortly before the Second World War started. He served in France with a Territorial Army artillery unit from Doncaster as part of the British Expeditionary Force. He was evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940, but later he became a pilot in the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit of the RAF. He ran out of fuel on a reconnaissance mission on January 25, 1943 and ditched near Mont St Jean, but was captured by the Germans. He was mentioned in dispatches for helping escapes from the prison camp at Stalag Luft 3: he himself once escaped as far as Denmark. The film The Wooden Horse was based on one of his escapes. While still a prisoner, he took a law degree with first-class honours through the International Red Cross. On his return to England, he was awarded a state grant to Oxford University, where he took a degreed in PPE in two years at Oriel College, and a scholarship to the Inner Temple. He then practised as a barrister from 1948, and specialised in taxation. Location within the British Isles Retford is a town on the River Idle, in the Nottinghamshire, England district of Bassetlaw. ...
Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. ...
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The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the British army sent to France and Belgium in World War I and British Forces in Europe from 1939 - 1940 during World War II. The BEF was established by Secretary of State for War Richard Haldane following the Second Boer War in case the...
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Stalag Luft III was a German prisoner of war camp during World War II that housed captured air force personnel and was operated by the German Luftwaffe. ...
The Wooden Horse is a 1950 2nd World War film starring Leo Genn, Anthony Steel and David Tomlinson. ...
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Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area â Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population â Total (mid-2004) â Total (2001 Census) â Density Ranked 1st UK...
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PPE stands for PCBoard Programming Executable, a door specification for the PCBoard BBS software. ...
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House of Commons Anthony Barber stood in Doncaster at the 1950 general election but lost by 878 votes. He contested the seat again at the 1951 general election, however, and beat the incumbent Labour Member of Parliament, Raymond Gunter by 384 votes. He held a series of office: Parliamentary private secretary to George Ward (Under Secretary for Air) fom 1952 to 1958; junior Government whip from 1955 to 1958; and Parliamentary private secretary to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan from 1958 to 1959. He then served 4 years as a junior minister in the Treasury, Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1959 to 1962, and, following the "Night of the Long Knives" on 13 July 1962, as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1962 to 1963 (under the Chancellorships of Derick Heathcoat Amory, Selwyn Lloyd and Reginald Maudling). He became a Cabinet minister, as Minister of Health, in 1963, but lost his the seat in the Commons in the 1964 general election to Labour's Harold Walker. Doncaster was a Parliamentary constituency covering the town of Doncaster in England. ...
The United Kingdom general election in 1950 was the first general election ever after a full term of a Labour government. ...
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The Right Honourable Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894â29 December 1986), nicknamed Supermac and Mac the Knife, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. ...
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The Night of the Long Knives (June 30 and Sunday July 1, 1934) (German, Nacht der langen Messer), also known as Reichsmordwoche or the Blood Purge, was a lethal purge of Adolf Hitlers potential political rivals in the Sturmabteilung (SA; also known as storm troopers or brownshirts). ...
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Sir Harold Walker, Baron Walker of Doncaster, PC DL (1927 in Audenshawâ11 November 2003) was an English Labour politician. ...
His absence from Parliament was short-lived, as in 1965 he won the by-election in Altrincham and Sale caused by the elevation to the peerage of Frederick Erroll. In opposition, he lead Ted Heath's campaign to become Conservative party leader in 1965, and became party chairman in 1970. The Conservatives won the general election in 1970, and Barber held his seat until the general election of October 1974, when he himself entered the House of Lords. 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
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Chancellor of the Exchequer After winning the election in 1970, Edward Heath appointed Barber as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and gave him the responsibility for negotiating the entry of the UK into the EEC. However, following the sudden death of Iain Macleod on 20 July, only 6 weeks after the election, Barber became the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. In line with the, initial, liberal instincts of Heath's 1970 government, he oversaw a major liberalisation of the banking system, leading to a high level of lending, much of it to speculative property concerns. In his first Budget in March 1971, he proposed to replace purchase tax and selective employment tax with value added tax, and also relaxed exchange controls; both were prerequisites to membership of the EEC. VAT came into force in 1973 at a standard rate of 10%. A year later, the rate was cut to 8%. Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG , MBE (July 9, 1916 â July 17, 2005), soldier and politician, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. ...
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The Right Honourable Iain Macleod, PC (1913 â 1970) was a UK Conservative politician. ...
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Speculation is the buying, holding, and selling of stocks, commodities, futures, currencies, collectibles, real estate, or any valuable thing to profit from fluctuations in its price as opposed to buying it for use or for income - dividends, rent etc. ...
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Value added tax (VAT) is a sales tax levied on the sale of goods and services. ...
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Barber also reduced direct taxes. High levels of economic growth followed, but the traditional capacity constraints of the British economy - especially currency and balance of trade concerns - quickly choked the economic boom. The banking system fell towards crisis as the bubble burst. A direct tax a tax that is collected directly by government from the persons (legal or natural) on which it is levied. ...
During his term the economy suffered due to stagflation and industrial unrest. In 1972, he delivered a budget which was designed to return the Conservative Party to power in an election expected in 1974 or 1975. This budget led to a period known as "The Barber Boom". The measures in the budget led to high inflation and wage demands from Public Sector workers. He was forced to introduce anti-inflation measures in September 1972, along with a Prices Commission and Pay Board. The inflation of capital asset values was also followed by the 1973 oil crisis which followed the Yom Kippur War, adding to inflationary pressures in the economy and feeding industrial militancy (already at a high as a result of the struggle over the Industrial Relations Act 1971). Stagflation is a term in macroeconomics used to describe a period characteristic of high inflation combined with economic stagnation, unemployment, or economic recession. ...
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Combatants Israel Egypt, Syria, (Jordan, Iraq) Commanders Moshe Dayan, David Elazar, Ariel Sharon, Shmuel Gonen Saad El Shazly, Ahmad Ismail Ali Strength 415,000 troops; 1,500 tanks, 3,000 armored carriers; 945 artillery units 100 mm and up; 561 airplanes, 84 helicopters; 38 battleships. ...
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After a strike by the miners, and a three-day week, Heath called for a general election on February 28, 1974, asking "Who governs Britain?". The election returned a minority Labour Government and Harold Wilson as Prime Minister. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Right Honourable James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 â 24 May 1995) was one of the longest serving Labour Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. ...
Later years Having failed to secure re-election in Conservative general election defeat in 1974, Barber left front-line politics. He was made a Life Peer, and served as Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank from that 1974 to 1987, where John Major was his personal assistant. Barber was also a director of BP from 1979 to 1988. He visited Nelson Mandela in prison, and was a member of the Franks Committee that investigated the Falklands War. In 1991, he became chair of the RAF Benevolent Association’s appeal for the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, which raised £26 million. In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ...
Standard Chartered Bank (LSE: STAN, HKEx: 2888) is a British bank headquartered in London with operations in many countries, especially in Asia and Africa. ...
Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who served in the Cabinets of Margaret Thatcher as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer before succeeding Thatcher as Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990...
BP plc, LSE: BP, NYSE: BP, TYO: 5051 , originally British Petroleum, is a British energy company with headquarters in London, one of the top four vertically integrated private sector oil, natural gas, and gasoline companies in the world (along with Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, and Total). ...
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela IPA: (born July 18, 1918) was the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully-representative democratic elections. ...
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas), was a war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands (also known in Spanish as the Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, between March and June of 1982. ...
Combatants British Royal Air Force and allies Nazi German Luftwaffe Commanders Hugh Dowding Hermann Göring Strength approx 700 fighters (at the beginning) 1,260 bombers; 316 dive-bombers; 1,089 fighters Casualties 1,547 aircraft; Civilian: 27,450 dead, 32,138 wounded 1,887 aircraft {{{notes}}} A major campaign...
He suffered from Parkinson's Disease in later years, and died in Suffolk in 2005. He was married twice, with two daughters from his first marriage. Suffolk (pronounced SUF-fk) is a large traditional and administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. ...
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