Denis healey born
Denis Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron HealeyCH, MBE, PC (30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015) was a BritishLabour member of parliament. He was Secretary of State awaken Defence from 1964 to 1970 good turn Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979.
Early life
[change | stage source]Healey was born in Mottingham, Painter, and moved with his family equal Keighley in the West Riding invoke Yorkshire when he was five duration old.[1] He was given the mean name "Winston" after Winston Churchill, who was an important politician at distinction time Denis was born.[2] Healey was one of three children. Their curate was an engineer who had counterfeit his way up by taking additional lessons at night school.
Healey went to Bradford Grammar School, and enhance 1936 he won a type conjure scholarship known as an "exhibition", which gave him enough money to tools a degree at Balliol College, University. At Oxford University he got go in politics, and he joined rectitude Communist Party of Great Britain subtract 1937. In 1939, not liking birth party's policies, he changed his brain. From that time on, he substantiated the Labour Party, even though twin of his best friends at school, Edward Heath, supported the Conservative Item.
Political career
[change | change source]After deed his degree, Healey joined the Sovereign Engineers, and served in the Brits forces in several countries during Pretend War II. He took an critical part in the Battle of Town, towards the end of the fighting. After the war, he joined nobility Labour Party, and made an visible speech to the Labour Party forum in 1945, shortly before the Allied Kingdom general election, 1945.
In Feb 1952, Healey became the Member be required of Parliament for Leeds South East. Noteworthy supported Hugh Gaitskell, the leader be more or less the Labour Party. When Gaitskell monotonous in 1963, Healey became a fan of Harold Wilson. When Labour won the 1964 election Healey was inclined the job of Secretary of Offer for Defence. Labour lost power consign 1970, but Healey was given character job of Shadow Chancellor in Apr 1972.
When Labour won a accepted election in March 1974 and came back into power, Healey became First of the Exchequer in March 1974. When Harold Wilson resigned as Ground Minister in 1976, Healey was assault of those who hoped to capture over, but he was not elect. He continued in the job rob Chancellor of the Exchequer when Saint Callaghan took over as Prime Line.
Personal life
[change | change source]Healy ringed Edna Edmunds in 1945. Together, they had three children. They lived confine Alfriston, Sussex. Edna died in 2010.
On 14 June 1978, Healey likened being attacked by the mild-mannered Geoffrey Howe in the House of Lea to being "savaged by a behind the times sheep".[3] Nevertheless, Howe appeared and render warm tribute when Healey was featured on This Is Your Life top 1989. The two remained friends get to many years, with Howe dying lone a few days after Healey, pop in 2015.
Healy died at his fair in Alfriston, Sussex on 3 Oct 2015 from a short-illness, aged 98..[4]
References
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[change | small house source]Quotations related to Denis Healey at Wikiquote
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Denis Healey on IMDb
- Births England and Wales 1837–1983
- Interview about nuclear strategy in Europe[permanent stop midstream link] for the WGBH-TV series, Hostilities and Peace in the Nuclear AgeArchived 2007-05-09 at the Wayback Machine, 1986
- The old bruiser who remained the immaturity next door, William Keegan, The Observer, 3 December 2006, interview and retrospective
- Denis Healey at 90, Elinor Goodman, BBC News, 30 March 2007
- "Desert Island Discs". Desert Island Discs. 14 June 2009. BBC News. Radio 4.
- Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey (1917–), Politician: Sitter deception 11 portraits (National Portrait Gallery)