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16 unusual facts about Edward Heath


BAC Three-Eleven

In short order, however, the new Edward Heath cabinet had to rescue Rolls-Royce from bankruptcy by nationalising it.

Chevaline

This decision was made official late in 1973 by the Edward Heath administration, who changed the name from Super Antelope to Chevaline.

Ding Lik-kiu

He led a seven-member delegation to London in May 1984 to lobby for democratic reform in Hong Kong before the colony's handover to China and met with the former British Prime Minister Edward Heath.

Eldon Griffiths

He served as a junior minister for Environment and Sport during the Edward Heath government of 1970 to 1974.

Emergency Powers Act 1920

During the Conservative government of Edward Heath there were five declarations of emergency under this Act, by far the most any government.

First Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath

The Second Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath was created on the 28 July 1965 after the Conservative Party elected Edward Heath as their leader replacing Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

Giordano Dell'Amore

As president of ISBI he met the British prime minister Edward Heath at the X World Savings Banks Congress held in London in 1972.

History of the West Midlands

In the event the Conservative government of Edward Heath was elected in 1970 and the original plans for local government reform were radically altered.

Martin Jennings

The National Portrait Gallery has three portraits by Jennings; Edward Heath, Philip Pullman and Lord Bingham.

Munir Butt

He later rescinded his membership during the administration of Edward Heath, and has since described himself as apathetic, though a voter of Liberal Democrat bent.

Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom

In recent years, the Prime Minister who lived the longest after leaving office was Sir Edward Heath, whose term ended on 4 March 1974; he died on 17 July 2005, 31 years and 135 days later.

Second Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath

It was led by the Leader of the Conservative Party Edward Heath and featured prominent Conservative politicians both past and future.

Shadow Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher

A rule change to enable the election was largely prompted by dissatisfaction with the incumbent leader, Edward Heath, who had lost three of four general elections as leader, including two in 1974.

Simon Kerslake

He is a British Conservative Party politician, representing the Coventry Central and later Pucklebridge constituencies, who served under Prime Ministers Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher.

University of Oxford Chancellor election, 2003

It was also the first election to use the single transferable vote, after the previous election by first past the post in 1987 saw two conservative candidates (Robert Blake, Baron Blake and Sir Edward Heath) splitting the conservative vote at 2,500 each, allowing social democrat Roy Jenkins to win with just 3,500 votes.

Vic Feather

As General Secretary, Feather led the British trade union movement's fight against Heath government's Industrial Relations Act 1971.


Clifford Curzon

During his premiership, Edward Heath invited musician friends, such as Clifford Curzon and the Amadeus Quartet, to perform at either Chequers or 10 Downing Street.

Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

He served under Edward Heath as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1973 to 1974 and as Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Air Force in 1974.

Intention to be legally bound

The Industrial Relations Act 1971, introduced by Robert Carr (Employment Minister in Edward Heath's cabinet) provided that collective agreements were binding, unless a contact clause in writing declared otherwise.

Norman Skelhorn

Prime Minister Edward Heath had banned sensory deprivation in light of the report by Sir Edmund Compton into internment and interrogation techniques used by the British Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

Scottish Assembly

The Labour government formed the Kilbrandon Commission to draw up devolution plans, and Edward Heath committed the Conservatives to supporting some form of devolution at the 1968 Scottish Conservative Conference in Perth (commonly known as his Declaration of Perth).

St Philip's Church, Hove

Former Conservative Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath, Labour minister and SDP founder Roy Jenkins and former Labour minister Gerald Kaufman were on the panel.

Statue of Margaret Thatcher, Houses of Parliament

Following these rule changes, busts of former Prime Ministers Lord Callaghan and Sir Edward Heath were installed in the Members' Lobby in 2002.

The Age of Uncertainty

# Weekend in Vermont (three one hour programmes in which Galbraith discusses economics, politics and international relations with guests such as Henry Kissinger, Georgy Arbatov and Edward Heath).