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The Right Honourable Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot QC (1905-1978), was a British lawyer and politician, was born in Plymouth in Devon. 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... This article is about Plymouth, England. ... Devon is a county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ...


Foot's father, Isaac Foot, was a solicitor, an active member of the Liberal Party and Liberal Member of Parliament for Bodmin in Cornwall 1922-1924 and 1929-1935. His brother, Michael Foot, was a prominent figure in the Labour Party and was Leader of the Opposition 1981-1983. Hugh Foot (later Lord Caradon, father of campaigning journalist Paul Foot) was also active in politics and represented the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964-1970. Another brother, John, later Baron Foot, was also a politician. The Right Honourable Isaac Foot (23 February 1880 - 13 December 1960) was a British politician and solicitor. ... The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... The town of Bodmin lies in the centre of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, along the western edge of Bodmin Moor. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow or occasionally Curnow) is the part of Great Britains south-west peninsula that is west of the River Tamar, often known as the Cornish peninsula or plateau. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Michael Foot The Right Honourable Michael Mackintosh Foot (born July 23, 1913), British politician, was leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon (October 8, 1907 - September 5, 1990), life peer created on 27 October 1964. ... Paul Foot addressing a miners rally, June 1984 This article is about the journalist and campaigner. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... John Foot, Baron Foot (1909-1999) was a Liberal Member of Parliament and Life Peer. ...


Dingle Foot was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1930. From 1931 to 1945 he was Liberal MP for Dundee. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, and a member of the British delegation to San Francisco Conference in 1945. At the 1945 election he lost his seat to Labour. Full name Balliol College Motto - Named after John de Balliol Previous names - Established 1263 Sister College St Johns College, Cambridge Master Andrew Graham (academic) Location Broad Street Undergraduates 403 Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford... The University of Oxford, situated in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other uses see Dundee (disambiguation) Dundee is Scotlands fourth largest city, population 154 674 (2001), situated on the North bank of the Firth of Tay. ... The Minister of Economic Warfare was a British government position which existed during the Second World War. ... The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II. At various times an author, soldier, journalist, and politician, Churchill is generally regarded as... Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru of Japan, gave a speech on Reconciliation and rapport (和解と信頼) in 1951 at San Francisco Peace conference. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...


Foot left the Liberal Party and joined the Labour Party in 1956. He was Labour MP for Ipswich 1957-1970. He became Solicitor-General in the government of Harold Wilson and was knighted and made a Privy Counsellor in 1964. In 1970 he was again defeated, this time by the Conservative Party. His publications included Despotism in Disguise (1937) and British Political Crises (1976). 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday. ... For other places and usages with this name, see Ipswich (disambiguation). ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Solicitor General is a cabinet position in several countries, dealing with legal affairs. ... James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC (March 11, 1916 – May 24, 1995) was one of the more successful Labour Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and a 1960s icon. ... This article concerns the British Sovereigns Privy Council. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the centre-right in the United Kingdom. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...


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Michael Foot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1440 words)
He is the younger brother of the late lawyer Sir Dingle Foot, the Liberal politician Lord Foot (previously John Foot) and of the late Lord Caradon (previously Hugh Foot), a former Governor of Cyprus, whose late son was the campaigning journalist, Paul Foot.
Foot was however a critic of the west's handling of the Korean war, an opponent of West German rearmament in the early 1950s and a founder member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Foot was married to the film-maker, author and feminist historian Jill Craigie from 1949 until her death in 1999.
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