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Encyclopedia > Leonard Robert Carr

The Rt. Hon. Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley (born November 11, 1916) is a British Conservative politician.


Robert Carr was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he read Natural Sciences, graduating in 1938.


He was elected Member of Parliament for Mitcham in 1950 and served there until 1974 when the seat was merged and he moved to Carshalton. In Edward Heath's government he served as Secretary of State for Employment and was responsible for the Industrial Relations Act 1971, which balanced the introduction of compensation for unfair dismissal with curbs on the freedom to strike and the virual abolition of closed shop agreements.


In 1971 he escaped injury when the Angry Brigade anarchist group exploded two bombs outside his house.


In 1972 he served a brief spell as Lord President of the Council and was then appointed Home Secretary after the resignation of Reginald Maudling.


He was created a Life Peer in 1976.

Preceded by:
Barbara Castle		 Secretary of State for Employment
1970–1972		 Followed by:
Maurice Macmillan
Preceded by:
William Whitelaw		 Lord President of the Council
1972		 Followed by:
James Prior
Leader of the House of Commons
1972
Preceded by:
Reginald Maudling		 Home Secretary
1972–1974		 Followed by:
Roy Jenkins

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Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, PC (born November 11, 1916) is a British Conservative politician.
Robert Carr was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he read Natural Sciences, graduating in 1938.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Mitcham in 1950 and served there until 1974 when the seat was merged and he moved to Carshalton.
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Carr, by all accounts is a fine, honest, upstanding citizen of the United States of America, the State of Florida and the County of Charlotte.
Carr is indeed the victim of a personal/political vendetta originated and sponsored by Mr.
Robert Carr will be found to be a victim of an unprecedented campaign of character assassination, and political cover-up by a group of narrow minded, self-serving political hacks.
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