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The title Earl of Avon was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1961 for the former Prime Minister Anthony Eden, together with the subsidiary title Viscount Eden, of Royal Leamington Spa in the County of Warwick. The titles became extinct on the death of the 2nd Earl. The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ...
1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. ...
The Right Honourable Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (June 12, 1897â January 14, 1977), British politician, was Foreign Secretary during World War II and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1950s. ...
Eden was a member of the prominent Eden family. His great-great-grandfather Sir John Eden, 4th Baronet, of West Auckland, was the elder brother of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland and Morton Eden, 1st Baron Henley while Eden's nephew is fellow Conservative politician John Benedict Eden, Baron Eden of Winton. William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland (1745 - 1814), English statesman, son of Sir Robert Eden, 3rd Bart. ...
Earls of Avon (1961)
1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG (June 12, 1897 - January 14, 1977), British politician, was Foreign Secretary during World War II and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1950s. ...
1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...
Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon (1930-1985), British politician and son of Prime Minister Anthony Eden. ...
1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
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