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The Rt. Hon. Edmund Emanuel Dell (August 15, 1921 - October 28, 1999) was a British politician and businessman. August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ...
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1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Dell was born in London, the son of a Jewish manufacturer. In World War II, he served in the Rifle Corps and the Royal Artillery, leaving as a first lieutenant. He studied at Queen's College, Oxford where he was a Communist, graduating with first class honours in modern history in 1947. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe...
The Royal Regiment of Artillery, generally known as the Royal Artillery (RA), is, despite its name, a corps of the British Army It is made up of a number of regiments. ...
The Queens College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ...
In 1953 Dell was elected to Manchester city council and served for seven years. He stood unsuccesfully for Parliament in 1955 in Middleton and Prestwich. He served as Labour Member of Parliament for Birkenhead from 1964-79. He served as parliamentary private secretary to Jack Diamond, then parliamentary secretary for technology under Tony Benn in 1966 and under secretary in economic affairs under Peter Shore in 1967. In 1968 he was promoted to minister of state for trade. Switched to employment in 1969, he was made a privy councillor in 1970. Manchester is a city in the North West of England. ...
Middleton is the name of several places in the United Kingdom: Middleton, Aberdeenshire Middleton, Angus Middleton, Argyll Middleton, Ayrshire Middleton, County Durham Middleton, Cumbria Middleton, Derbyshire Middleton, Dunbartonshire Middleton, Essex Middleton, Greater Manchester Middleton, Hampshire Middleton, Herefordshire Middleton, Isle of Wight Middleton, Lancashire Middleton, Midlothian Middleton, Milton Keynes Middleton, Moray...
Prestwich is the most southerly town in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Lancashire, the United Kingdom. ...
The Labour Party is the principal centrist/centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ...
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. ...
Birkenhead is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
John Diamond, Baron Diamond (1907-2004) was Privy Councillor since 1965 and created Baron Diamond 25 September 1970. ...
Tony Benn about to join March 2005 anti-war demo in London The Right Honourable Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born April 3, 1925), known as Tony Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British politician regarded as being on the left of the Labour Party. ...
Peter David Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney PC (May 20, 1924 - September 24, 2001) was a British Labour politician noted for his opposition to the European Communities. ...
1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
When Wilson returned to Downing Street, Dell became Paymaster General, then Secretary of State for Trade and President of the Board of Trade in James Callaghan's government 1976-78. He was tipped to become Chancellor of the Exchequer but resigned his seat, annoyed by the drift of the Labour Party to a left-wing, anti-European position. He later joined the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Democrats. He was a trustee of both parties and was one of the SDP's three negotiators during its merger with the Liberal Party. this website is rubbish!!!!! ...
Paymaster-General is a ministerial position in UK. Former holders of this post include: Lord John Russell 1830-1834 Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bt 1834-1835 Sir Henry Brook Parnell 1835-1841 Edward John Stanley 1841 Sir Edward Knatchbull 1841-1845 William Bingham Baring 1845-1846 Thomas Babington Macaulay 1846-1848...
The President of the Board of Trade the title of a cabinet position in the United Kingdom government. ...
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The Social Democratic Party (SDP) was a United Kingdom political party that existed as a national party between 1981 and 1990. ...
The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ...
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...
After Parliament he had a career in business as chairman of Guinness Peat and Channel 4 and as a director of Shell Trading. In 1991-2 he was president of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In 1996, he wrote The Chancellors: A History Of Chancellors Of The Exchequer 1945-90. Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ...
Chambers of commerce are business advocacy groups which are usually not associated with government. ...
1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
Dell was married to Susan Gottschalk for 36 years.
The Right Honourable Maurice Victor Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden (27 January 1921-10 March 1984) was a Conservative politician and Member of Parliament. ...
Paymaster-General is a ministerial position in UK. Former holders of this post include: Lord John Russell 1830-1834 Sir Edmund Knatchbull 1834-1835 Sir Henry Brook Parnell 1835-1841 Edward John Stanley 1841 Sir Edmund Knatchbull 1841-1845 William Bingham Baring 1845-1846 Thomas Babington Macaulay 1846-1848 The...
The Baroness Williams of Crosby Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, PC (born July 27, 1930), is a British politician. ...
Peter David Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney PC (May 20, 1924 - September 24, 2001) was a British Labour politician noted for his opposition to the European Communities. ...
The President of the Board of Trade the title of a cabinet position in the United Kingdom government. ...
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