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The Right Honourable Sir Robert Anthony Eden, 1st
Earl of Avon, Order of the Garter|KG, Military
Cross|MC, Privy Council|PC (12 June 1897–14
January 1977), United Kingdom|British politician,
was Foreign Secretary during World War II and
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the
1950s. He is remembered mainly for his role in the
disastrous Suez Crisis of 1956. In a 2004 poll of
139 political science academics organised by MORI,
Eden was voted the least successful British Prime
Minister of the 20th Century.

==Early career==
Eden was born in Durham, where his family had been
local landowners for many generations. His mother,
Sybil Grey, was a member of the famous Grey family
of Northumberland (see below). He studied at Eton
College|Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he
graduated in oriental languages.(He was fluent in
French, German and Persian. He also spoke Russian
and Arabic). Following a military career during
the World War I|First World War, during which he
received a Military Cross, Eden entered politics
in 1923 when he was elected Member of Parliament
for Warwick and Leamington, as a Conservative
Party (UK)|Conservative. In that year also he
married Beatrice Beckett. They had two sons, but
the marriage was not a success and broke up under
the strain of Eden's political career.

Eden became Parliamentary Private Secretary at the
Foreign Office in 1926. In 1931 he was promoted to
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. In 1934 he
was appointed Lord Privy Seal and Minster for the
League of Nations in Stanley Baldwin's Government.
Like many of his generation who had served in the
First World War, Eden was strongly anti-war and
strove to work through the League of Nations to
preserve European peace. He was however among the
first to recognise that peace could not be
maintained by appeasement of Nazi Germany and
fascist Italy. He privately opposed the policy of
the Foreign Secretary, Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount
Templewood|Sir Samuel Hoare, of trying to appease
Italy during its Second Italo-Abyssinian
War|invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in 1935. When
Hoare resigned after the failure of the
Hoare-Laval Pact, Eden succeeded him as Foreign
Secretary.

At this stage in his career Eden was considered as
something of a leader of fashion. He regularly
wore a Homburg_(hat)|Homburg hat (similar to a
bowler hat but with an upturned brim), which
became forever known in Britain by his name.

He had an elder brother called Timothy.

==Foreign Secretary==
Eden became Foreign Secretary at a time when
Britain was having to adjust its foreign policy to
face the rise of the fascist powers. He supported
the policy of non-interference in the Spanish
Civil War, and supported Neville Chamberlain in
his efforts to preserve peace through reasonable
concessions to Germany. He did not protest when
Britain and France failed to oppose Adolf
Hitler|Hitler's reoccupation of the Rhineland in
1936. But in February 1938 he resigned because he
could not accept Chamberlain's opening of
negotiations with Italy. This made him an ally of
Winston Churchill, then a rebel backbench
Conservative MP and leading critic of appeasement.
There was much speculation that Eden would become
a rallying point for all the disparate opponents
of Chamberlain, but instead he maintained a low
profile, avoiding confrontation though he opposed
the Munich Agreement. As a result Eden's position
declined heavily amongst politicians, though he
remained popular in the country at large.

In September 1939, on the outbreak of war, Eden
returned to Chamberlain's government as Secretary
of State for Dominion Affairs, but was not in the
War Cabinet. As a result he was not considered a
candidate for the Premiership when Chamberlain
resigned after Germany invaded France in May 1940
and Churchill became Prime Minister. He appointed
Eden Secretary of State for War. Later in 1940 he
returned to the Foreign Office, and in this role
became a member of the executive committee of the
Political Warfare Executive in 1941. Although he
was one of Churchill's closest confidents, his
role in wartime was restricted because Churchill
conducted the most important negotiations, with
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, himself,
but Eden served loyally as Churchill's lieutenant.
Nevertheless he was in charge of handling much of
the relations between Britain and de Gaulle during
the last years of the war. In 1942 he was given
the additional job of Leader of the House of
Commons.

After the Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party won the
1945 elections, Eden went into opposition as
Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party. Many felt
that Churchill should have retired and allowed
Eden to become party leader, but Churchill refused
to consider this and Eden was too loyal to press
him. He was in any case depressed during this
period by the break-up of his first marriage and
the death of his eldest son, Simon Eden, in the
last days of the war.

In 1951 the Conservatives returned to office and
Eden became Foreign Secretary for a third time.
Churchill was largely a figurehead in this
government and Eden had effective control of
British foreign policy for the first time, as the
Cold War grew more intense. He dealt effectively
with the various crises of the period, although
Britain was no longer the world power it had been
before the war. In 1950 he and Beatrice Eden were
finally divorced and in 1952 he married
Churchill's niece, Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, a
marriage much more successful than his first had
been. In 1953 Eden underwent a series of
operations at Boston's Lahey Clinic to correct a
minor gall bladder complaint. Unfortunately Eden's
health never fully recovered; this was to
undermine his subsequent career.  In 1954 he was
made a Knight of the Garter.

==Prime Minister==

In April 1955 Churchill finally retired, and Sir
Anthony succeeded him as Prime Minister. Eden was
a very popular figure, as a result of his long
wartime service and also his famous good looks and
charm. On taking office he immediately called a
general election, at which the Conservatives were
returned with an increased majority. But Sir
Anthony had never held a domestic portfolio and
had little experience in economic matters. He left
these areas to his lieutenants such as Rab Butler,
and concentrated largely on foreign policy,
forming a close alliance with U.S. President
Dwight Eisenhower. 

This alliance proved illusory, however, when in
1956 Sir Anthony, in conjunction with France,
tried to prevent Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of
Egypt, nationalising the Suez Canal, which had
been owned since the 19th century by British and
French shareholders in the Suez Canal Company. Sir
Anthony, drawing on his experience in the 1930s,
saw Nasser as another Benito Mussolini|Mussolini. 
Sir Anthony considered the two men aggressive
nationalist socialists determined to invade other
countries.  Others believed that Nasser was acting
from legitimate patriotic concerns.

In October 1956, after months of negotiation and
attempts at mediation had failed to dissuade
Nasser, Britain and France, in conjunction with
Israel, invaded Egypt and occupied the Suez Canal
Zone. But Eisenhower immediately and strongly
opposed the invasion.  The U.S. President was an
advocate of decolonization|decolonisation, because
it would liberate colonies, strengthen U.S.
interests, and presumably make other Arab and
African leaders more sympathetic to the United
States.  Eden had ignored Britain's financial
dependence on the U.S. in the wake of World War
II, and was forced to bow to American pressure to
withdraw. The Suez Crisis is widely taken as
marking the end of Britain (along with France) as
a World power.

The Suez fiasco ruined Sir Anthony's reputation
for statesmanship and led to a breakdown in his
health. His Foreign Secretary, Harold Macmillan,
despite having been one of the architects of Suez,
manoeuvred Eden into resignation and succeeded him
as Prime Minister in January 1957. He retained his
personal popularity and was made Earl of Avon in
1961. In retirement he lived quietly in Wiltshire
with his second wife, and published a highly
acclaimed personal memoir, Another World, as well
as several volumes of political memoirs. The Earl
of Avon died in Salisbury, England|Salisbury in
1977.

From 1945-1973, Eden was Chancellor of the
University of Birmingham, England.

Eden's surviving son, Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of
Avon|Nicholas Eden (1930-1985|85), known as
Viscount Eden until 1977, was also a politician
and was a minister in the Margaret
Thatcher|Thatcher government until his premature
death from AIDS.

==The Eden Government==
*Anthony Eden: Prime Minister
*David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of
Kilmuir|Lord Kilmuir: Lord Chancellor
*Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of
Salisbury|Lord Salisbury: Lord President of the
Council
*Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank|Harry
Crookshank: Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the
House of Commons
*Rab Butler: Chancellor of the Exchequer
*Harold Macmillan: Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs
*Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby|Gwilym
Lloyd George: Secretary of State for the Home
Department
*Alan Lennox-Boyd: Secretary of State for the
Colonies
*Alec Douglas-Home|Lord Home: Secretary of State
for Commonwealth Relations
*Peter Thorneycroft: President of the Board of
Trade
*Frederick James Marquis, 1st Baron Woolton|Lord
Woolton: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
*Sir David Eccles: Minister of Education
*James Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of
Findhorn|James Stuart: Secretary of State for
Scotland
*Derick Heathcoat Amory,1st Viscount Amory|Derick
Heathcoat Amory: Minister of Agriculture
*Sir Walter Turner Monckton: Minister of Labour
and National Service
*Selwyn Lloyd: Minister of Defence
*Duncan Sandys: Minister of Housing and Local
Government
*Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby|Osbert Peake:
Minister of Pensions and National Insurance
Changes

*December 1955 - Rab Butler succeeds Harry
Crookshank as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the
House of Commons.  Harold Macmillan succeeds
Butler as Chancellor of the Exchequer.  Selwyn
Lloyd succeeds Macmillan as Foreign Secretary. 
Sir Walter Monckton succeeds Lloyd as Minister of
Defence.  Iain Macleod succeeds Monckton as
Minister of Labour and National Service.  George
Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk|Lord
Selkirk succeeds Lord Woolton as Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster.  The Minister of Public Works,
 Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, enters the Cabinet.  The
Minister of Pensions and National Insurance leaves
the Cabinet upon Peake's retirement.
*October 1956: Sir Walter Monckton becomes
Paymaster-General.  Anthony Henry Head succeeds
Monckton as Minister of Defence.

==The Grey-Eden connection==
                    Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey =
Elizabeth Grey
                                                |
                  
------------------------------------------
                   |                              
         |
          Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey            
William Grey
            Prime Minister                        
         = Maria Shireff
                                                  
         |
                                   Georgina
Plowden = Sir William Grey
                                                  
 |
                              Sir William Eden =
Sybil Grey
                                               |
                                       Anthony
Eden
                                      Prime
Minister
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succession box | title=Lord Privy Seal |
before=Stanley Baldwin | after=Charles
Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of
Londonderry|The Marquess of Londonderry |
years=1934–1935
succession box | title=Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary | before=Samuel
Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood|Sir Samuel Hoare |
after=Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax|The
Viscount Halifax | years=1935–1938
succession box | title=Secretary of State for
Dominion Affairs | before=Thomas Inskip, 1st
Viscount Caldecote|Sir Thomas Inskip |
after=Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote|The
Viscount Caldecote | years=1939–1940
succession box | title=Secretary of State for
War|War Secretary | before=Oliver Stanley |
after=David Margesson, 1st Viscount
Margesson|David Margesson | years=1940
succession box | title=Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary | before=Edward
Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax|The Viscount Halifax |
after=Ernest Bevin | years=1940–1945
succession box | title=Leader of the House of
Commons | before=Stafford Cripps|Sir Stafford
Cripps | after=Herbert Morrison
(politician)|Herbert Morrison |
years=1942–1945
succession box | title=Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary | before=Herbert
Morrison (politician)|Herbert Morrison |
after=Harold Macmillan | years=1951–1955
succession box two to two| title1=Conservative
Party (UK)|Leader of the British Conservative
Party | title2=Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom|Prime Minister | before=Winston
Churchill|Sir Winston Churchill | after=Harold
Macmillan | years1=1955–1957 |
years2=1955–1957
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Creation | after=Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of
Avon|Nicholas Eden | years=
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==External links==
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The Right Honourable Sir Robert Anthony Eden, 1st
Earl of Avon, Order of the Garter|KG, Military
Cross|MC, Privy Council|PC (12 June 1897–14
January 1977), United Kingdom|British politician,
was Foreign Secretary during World War II and
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the
1950s. He is remembered mainly for his role in the
disastrous Suez Crisis of 1956. In a 2004 poll of
139 political science academics organised by MORI,
Eden was voted the least successful British Prime
Minister of the 20th Century.

==Early career==
Eden was born in Durham, where his family had been
local landowners for many generations. His mother,
Sybil Grey, was a member of the famous Grey family
of Northumberland (see below). He studied at Eton
College|Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he
graduated in oriental languages.(He was fluent in
French, German and Persian. He also spoke Russian
and Arabic). Following a military career during
the World War I|First World War, during which he
received a Military Cross, Eden entered politics
in 1923 when he was elected Member of Parliament
for Warwick and Leamington, as a Conservative
Party (UK)|Conservative. In that year also he
married Beatrice Beckett. They had two sons, but
the marriage was not a success and broke up under
the strain of Eden's political career.

Eden became Parliamentary Private Secretary at the
Foreign Office in 1926. In 1931 he was promoted to
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. In 1934 he
was appointed Lord Privy Seal and Minster for the
League of Nations in Stanley Baldwin's Government.
Like many of his generation who had served in the
First World War, Eden was strongly anti-war and
strove to work through the League of Nations to
preserve European peace. He was however among the
first to recognise that peace could not be
maintained by appeasement of Nazi Germany and
fascist Italy. He privately opposed the policy of
the Foreign Secretary, Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount
Templewood|Sir Samuel Hoare, of trying to appease
Italy during its Second Italo-Abyssinian
War|invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in 1935. When
Hoare resigned after the failure of the
Hoare-Laval Pact, Eden succeeded him as Foreign
Secretary.

At this stage in his career Eden was considered as
something of a leader of fashion. He regularly
wore a Homburg_(hat)|Homburg hat (similar to a
bowler hat but with an upturned brim), which
became forever known in Britain by his name.

He had an elder brother called Timothy.

==Foreign Secretary==
Eden became Foreign Secretary at a time when
Britain was having to adjust its foreign policy to
face the rise of the fascist powers. He supported
the policy of non-interference in the Spanish
Civil War, and supported Neville Chamberlain in
his efforts to preserve peace through reasonable
concessions to Germany. He did not protest when
Britain and France failed to oppose Adolf
Hitler|Hitler's reoccupation of the Rhineland in
1936. But in February 1938 he resigned because he
could not accept Chamberlain's opening of
negotiations with Italy. This made him an ally of
Winston Churchill, then a rebel backbench
Conservative MP and leading critic of appeasement.
There was much speculation that Eden would become
a rallying point for all the disparate opponents
of Chamberlain, but instead he maintained a low
profile, avoiding confrontation though he opposed
the Munich Agreement. As a result Eden's position
declined heavily amongst politicians, though he
remained popular in the country at large.

In September 1939, on the outbreak of war, Eden
returned to Chamberlain's government as Secretary
of State for Dominion Affairs, but was not in the
War Cabinet. As a result he was not considered a
candidate for the Premiership when Chamberlain
resigned after Germany invaded France in May 1940
and Churchill became Prime Minister. He appointed
Eden Secretary of State for War. Later in 1940 he
returned to the Foreign Office, and in this role
became a member of the executive committee of the
Political Warfare Executive in 1941. Although he
was one of Churchill's closest confidents, his
role in wartime was restricted because Churchill
conducted the most important negotiations, with
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, himself,
but Eden served loyally as Churchill's lieutenant.
Nevertheless he was in charge of handling much of
the relations between Britain and de Gaulle during
the last years of the war. In 1942 he was given
the additional job of Leader of the House of
Commons.

After the Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party won the
1945 elections, Eden went into opposition as
Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party. Many felt
that Churchill should have retired and allowed
Eden to become party leader, but Churchill refused
to consider this and Eden was too loyal to press
him. He was in any case depressed during this
period by the break-up of his first marriage and
the death of his eldest son, Simon Eden, in the
last days of the war.

In 1951 the Conservatives returned to office and
Eden became Foreign Secretary for a third time.
Churchill was largely a figurehead in this
government and Eden had effective control of
British foreign policy for the first time, as the
Cold War grew more intense. He dealt effectively
with the various crises of the period, although
Britain was no longer the world power it had been
before the war. In 1950 he and Beatrice Eden were
finally divorced and in 1952 he married
Churchill's niece, Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, a
marriage much more successful than his first had
been. In 1953 Eden underwent a series of
operations at Boston's Lahey Clinic to correct a
minor gall bladder complaint. Unfortunately Eden's
health never fully recovered; this was to
undermine his subsequent career.  In 1954 he was
made a Knight of the Garter.

==Prime Minister==

In April 1955 Churchill finally retired, and Sir
Anthony succeeded him as Prime Minister. Eden was
a very popular figure, as a result of his long
wartime service and also his famous good looks and
charm. On taking office he immediately called a
general election, at which the Conservatives were
returned with an increased majority. But Sir
Anthony had never held a domestic portfolio and
had little experience in economic matters. He left
these areas to his lieutenants such as Rab Butler,
and concentrated largely on foreign policy,
forming a close alliance with U.S. President
Dwight Eisenhower. 

This alliance proved illusory, however, when in
1956 Sir Anthony, in conjunction with France,
tried to prevent Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of
Egypt, nationalising the Suez Canal, which had
been owned since the 19th century by British and
French shareholders in the Suez Canal Company. Sir
Anthony, drawing on his experience in the 1930s,
saw Nasser as another Benito Mussolini|Mussolini. 
Sir Anthony considered the two men aggressive
nationalist socialists determined to invade other
countries.  Others believed that Nasser was acting
from legitimate patriotic concerns.

In October 1956, after months of negotiation and
attempts at mediation had failed to dissuade
Nasser, Britain and France, in conjunction with
Israel, invaded Egypt and occupied the Suez Canal
Zone. But Eisenhower immediately and strongly
opposed the invasion.  The U.S. President was an
advocate of decolonization|decolonisation, because
it would liberate colonies, strengthen U.S.
interests, and presumably make other Arab and
African leaders more sympathetic to the United
States.  Eden had ignored Britain's financial
dependence on the U.S. in the wake of World War
II, and was forced to bow to American pressure to
withdraw. The Suez Crisis is widely taken as
marking the end of Britain (along with France) as
a World power.

The Suez fiasco ruined Sir Anthony's reputation
for statesmanship and led to a breakdown in his
health. His Foreign Secretary, Harold Macmillan,
despite having been one of the architects of Suez,
manoeuvred Eden into resignation and succeeded him
as Prime Minister in January 1957. He retained his
personal popularity and was made Earl of Avon in
1961. In retirement he lived quietly in Wiltshire
with his second wife, and published a highly
acclaimed personal memoir, Another World, as well
as several volumes of political memoirs. The Earl
of Avon died in Salisbury, England|Salisbury in
1977.

From 1945-1973, Eden was Chancellor of the
University of Birmingham, England.

Eden's surviving son, Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of
Avon|Nicholas Eden (1930-1985|85), known as
Viscount Eden until 1977, was also a politician
and was a minister in the Margaret
Thatcher|Thatcher government until his premature
death from AIDS.

==The Eden Government==
*Anthony Eden: Prime Minister
*David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of
Kilmuir|Lord Kilmuir: Lord Chancellor
*Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of
Salisbury|Lord Salisbury: Lord President of the
Council
*Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank|Harry
Crookshank: Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the
House of Commons
*Rab Butler: Chancellor of the Exchequer
*Harold Macmillan: Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs
*Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby|Gwilym
Lloyd George: Secretary of State for the Home
Department
*Alan Lennox-Boyd: Secretary of State for the
Colonies
*Alec Douglas-Home|Lord Home: Secretary of State
for Commonwealth Relations
*Peter Thorneycroft: President of the Board of
Trade
*Frederick James Marquis, 1st Baron Woolton|Lord
Woolton: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
*Sir David Eccles: Minister of Education
*James Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of
Findhorn|James Stuart: Secretary of State for
Scotland
*Derick Heathcoat Amory,1st Viscount Amory|Derick
Heathcoat Amory: Minister of Agriculture
*Sir Walter Turner Monckton: Minister of Labour
and National Service
*Selwyn Lloyd: Minister of Defence
*Duncan Sandys: Minister of Housing and Local
Government
*Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby|Osbert Peake:
Minister of Pensions and National Insurance
Changes

*December 1955 - Rab Butler succeeds Harry
Crookshank as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the
House of Commons.  Harold Macmillan succeeds
Butler as Chancellor of the Exchequer.  Selwyn
Lloyd succeeds Macmillan as Foreign Secretary. 
Sir Walter Monckton succeeds Lloyd as Minister of
Defence.  Iain Macleod succeeds Monckton as
Minister of Labour and National Service.  George
Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk|Lord
Selkirk succeeds Lord Woolton as Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster.  The Minister of Public Works,
 Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, enters the Cabinet.  The
Minister of Pensions and National Insurance leaves
the Cabinet upon Peake's retirement.
*October 1956: Sir Walter Monckton becomes
Paymaster-General.  Anthony Henry Head succeeds
Monckton as Minister of Defence.

==The Grey-Eden connection==
                    Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey =
Elizabeth Grey
                                                |
                  
------------------------------------------
                   |                              
         |
          Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey            
William Grey
            Prime Minister                        
         = Maria Shireff
                                                  
         |
                                   Georgina
Plowden = Sir William Grey
                                                  
 |
                              Sir William Eden =
Sybil Grey
                                               |
                                       Anthony
Eden
                                      Prime
Minister
start box
succession box | title=Lord Privy Seal |
before=Stanley Baldwin | after=Charles
Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of
Londonderry|The Marquess of Londonderry |
years=1934–1935
succession box | title=Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary | before=Samuel
Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood|Sir Samuel Hoare |
after=Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax|The
Viscount Halifax | years=1935–1938
succession box | title=Secretary of State for
Dominion Affairs | before=Thomas Inskip, 1st
Viscount Caldecote|Sir Thomas Inskip |
after=Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote|The
Viscount Caldecote | years=1939–1940
succession box | title=Secretary of State for
War|War Secretary | before=Oliver Stanley |
after=David Margesson, 1st Viscount
Margesson|David Margesson | years=1940
succession box | title=Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary | before=Edward
Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax|The Viscount Halifax |
after=Ernest Bevin | years=1940–1945
succession box | title=Leader of the House of
Commons | before=Stafford Cripps|Sir Stafford
Cripps | after=Herbert Morrison
(politician)|Herbert Morrison |
years=1942–1945
succession box | title=Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs|Foreign Secretary | before=Herbert
Morrison (politician)|Herbert Morrison |
after=Harold Macmillan | years=1951–1955
succession box two to two| title1=Conservative
Party (UK)|Leader of the British Conservative
Party | title2=Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom|Prime Minister | before=Winston
Churchill|Sir Winston Churchill | after=Harold
Macmillan | years1=1955–1957 |
years2=1955–1957
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succession box | title=Earl of Avon | before=New
Creation | after=Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of
Avon|Nicholas Eden | years=
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==External links==
http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/alteredstatesmen
/feature3.shtml