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  Christopher Soames, Baron Soames - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Soames served in the Cabinet of Harold Macmillan as Secretary of State for War from 1958 to 1960 and Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1960 to 1964 under Macmillan and, his successor, Alec Douglas-Home.
Soames was the son of Captain Arthur Granville Soames, descendant of a brewing family which became part of the landed gentry, by his wife Hope Mary Woodbine Parrish.
Christopher Soames married Mary Churchill (younger surviving daughter of Winston Churchill) on February 11, 1947.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Lord_Soames   (315 words)

  
 Soames, (Arthur) Christopher (John) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Soames, (Arthur) Christopher (John)
He held ministerial posts 1958–64, was vice-president of the European Commission 1973–77 and governor of (Southern) Rhodesia during its transition to independence as Zimbabwe December 1979–April 1980.
Soames entered Parliament as a Conservative in 1950, and after holding junior office was minister of war 1958–60, and minister of agriculture 1960–64.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Encyclopedia: Christopher Soames, Baron Soames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Soames may refer to: Christopher Soames, Baron Soames, known more commonly as Lord Soames, a British cabinet minister and the last governor of Rhodesia.
Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames (October 12, 1920-September 16, 1987) was the last Governor of Zimbabwe.
Nicholas Soames The Honourable Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames (born 12 February 1948) is a British Conservative politician.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Christopher-Soames,-Baron-Soames   (1290 words)

  
 Lord Soames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames (October 12, 1920 - September 16, 1987) was the last Governor of Zimbabwe.
He was the son of Captain Arthur Granville Soames, descendant of a brewing familywhich became part of the landed gentry, by his wife Hope Mary Woodbine Parrish.
His parents divorced early on, and his motherremarried the 7th Baron Dynevor (descendant of the 1st and last Earl Talbot) as her 2nd husband, by whom she had issue including the present peer(Lord Soames's half-brother).
www.therfcc.org /lord-soames-153151.html   (162 words)

  
 Christopher Soames, Barón Soames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Arturo Christopher Juan Soames, barón Soames (de octubre el 12, 1920-September 16, 1987) era el gobernador pasado de Zimbabwe.
Christopher Soames casó a Maria Churchill (una hija que sobrevive más joven de Winston Churchill) de febrero el 11 de 1947.
Una hija Charlotte Soames, ahora la cáscara del countess, era madre de la India Hicks, la dama de honor más joven a Diana, princesa de País de Gales en 1981.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ch/Christopher%20Soames,%20Bar%F3n%20Soames.htm   (226 words)

  
 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1291 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Edward Kenelm DIGBY was born 1 Aug 1894 and died 1964.
Arthur Granville SOAMES Captain was born 12 Oct 1886.
Christopher (Arthur) SOAMES Lord Soames was born 12 Oct 1920.
www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg1291.htm   (214 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Christopher Soames, Baron Soames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, PC (October 12, 1920-September 16, 1987) was the last Governor of Rhodesia.
In 1970 Edward Heath named Soames Britain's Ambassador to France.
They had several children, of whom the best known is his eldest son Nicholas Soames MP, the current Tory Shadow Secretary of State for Defense.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Christopher_Soames   (434 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Nicholas Soames
Nicholas Soames was first elected to the Commons in 1983.
In becoming a politician, he was following in extremely distinguished family footsteps - he is the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill and his father, Christopher Soames, was governor of Rhodesia and leader of the House of Lords.
An Old Etonian, Mr Soames is a hunting, shooting and fishing country gentlemen who is a close friend of the Prince of Wales and is strongly constitutionally conservative.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2174204.stm   (176 words)

  
 Find A Grave Cemetery Records- Christopher Soames
Arthur Christopher John Soames was born at Ashwell Manor in Penn, Buckinghamshire, the only son (he had two sisters) of Captain Arthur Soames, O.B.E. and his wife, Hope Parish.
In 1950, Christopher Soames was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Bedford.
Thatcher was elected, she appointed him Lord president of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords.
www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7471107&pt=Christopher%20Soames   (477 words)

  
 Capturing Churchill, to a V (washingtonpost.com)
Churchill's only surviving child, Lady Soames, as she is known, was in town for the opening.
Her late husband, Christopher Soames, was British ambassador to France and governor of Rhodesia when the country was handed back to the people and became Zimbabwe.
In a blue suit, eyes dancing, Lady Soames said she was delighted with the exhibit, which goes a long way toward capturing the energy of her father.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A14416-2004Feb4_2.html   (646 words)

  
 Biography.com - Soames (of Fletching), (Arthur) Christopher (John) Soames, Baron   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Soames (of Fletching), (Arthur) Christopher (John) Soames, Baron
He trained at Sandhurst Military Academy, served with the Coldstream Guards during World War 2, and in 1947 entered politics after marrying Mary, the daughter of Sir Winston Churchill.
Made a life peer in 1979, he assumed the office of Lord President and Leader of the House of Lords, and was chosen by Margaret Thatcher to oversee Rhodesia's transition to Zimbabwe in 1980.
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 Christopher Lee - 961023 Colvil and Soames e2 - Last.fm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Christopher Lee - 961023 Colvil and Soames e2 - Last.fm
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 Christopher Soames Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Jonathan Steele: Regime change, the prequel
Thatcher's colleague Christopher Soames put the point starkly in a House of Lords debate a few days after the invasion.
It is in strengthening that base and speaking with a European authority that we shall have much more influence over the US than through any special Anglo-Saxon influence that may or may not be left over from the mists of time," he declared.
Soames was a Europhile and Thatcher herself would never make the case in such strategic terms.
www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,1060745,00.html   (1160 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10626
She married Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, son of Captain Arthur Granville Soames and Hope Mary Woodbine, on 11 February 1947.
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Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames was the son of Captain Arthur Granville Soames and Hope Mary Woodbine.
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 The Reconstruction Project At Westminster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Wishing to commemorate Winston Churchill's visit to Fulton in 1946 while filling the void of an adequate campus church facility, Westminster began its reconstruction of Christopher Wren's Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury in the spring of 1964 as the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library.
Former British Ambassador Averill Harriman and the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a member of the Royal Family and the Queen's representative, gave the principal addresses, both reminiscing about their experiences with Churchill and his importance to world history.
Christopher Soames, Churchill's youngest daughter and the wife of the British ambassador to France, and her son Nicholas; John Freeman, the British ambassador to the United States; and former Missouri Governor John M. Dalton, who had headed the committee responsible for raising the funds for the Memorial.
www.westminster-mo.edu /cm/history/reconstruction.asp   (460 words)

  
 Christopher Lee - 961030 Colvil and Soames e3 - Last.fm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Christopher Lee - 961030 Colvil and Soames e3 - Last.fm
Christopher Lee - 961030 Colvil and Soames e3
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 Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | Simon Hoggart's week
In his youth, he was ADC to Sir Christopher Soames during Soames's stint as governor of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, as it was then called, in Salisbury, as it was then called.
Sir Christopher arranged for vast quantities of wine to be shipped from London to Government House in order to help impress the rebellious native tribes, or white Rhodesians as they were then called.
During the election, I was able to catch up with some of those classic stories about Christopher Soames's father-in-law, Winston Churchill, from the great man's grandson, Nicholas Soames.
www.guardian.co.uk /Columnists/Column/0,5673,511479,00.html   (963 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Lord Soames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He was the son of Captain Arthur Granville Soames, descendant of a brewing family which became part of the landed gentry, by his wife Hope Mary Woodbine Parrish.
His parents divorced early on, and his mother remarried the 7th Baron Dynevor (descendant of the 1st and last Earl Talbot) as her 2nd husband, by whom she had issue including the present peer (Lord Soames's half-brother).
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lord-Soames   (199 words)

  
 The Observer | Magazine | Grey mischief
Her father, Sir Christopher Soames, was appointed ambassador to Paris just as she was leaving school, so she signed up for a few French courses and landed a job as an assistant on French Vogue.
She was caught up in the événements of 1968 and announced to her father that she was a Trotskyite.
So, by the rain-lashed sea in Folkestone, miles away from her natural habitat of Sloane Street, Emma Soames tussles with the problems of how to age creatively, while also coping with her own bereavement.
observer.guardian.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,851228,00.html   (2337 words)

  
 Descendants of William the Conqueror
Father: Christopher Soames Baron Soames (L.P.), P.C. Mother: Mary Churchill
Robert Christopher Soames Mother: Camilla (Milly) Rose Dunne
Christopher Soames Baron Soames (L.P.), P.C. Sex: M
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 Buy Soames @ SmartyBrain : Books, DVD, Electronics, Cameras, Reviews
The law of bankrupts, their creditors, and assignees: From the issuing the commission to the allowance of the certificate by the Lord Chancellor : containing...
Remarks on the genius and writings of Soame Jenyns, Esq: And on the internal evidences of Christianity
The vicars of Twickenham, 1640-1661: Doctor Thomas Soame, Royalist, Mr.
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 recovery eec world trade relations united states statement christopher soames tokyo september 1973
Statement by Christopher Soames (Tokyo, 12 September 1973)
On 12 September 1973, at the opening of the GATT trade negotiations in Tokyo, Christopher Soames, Vice-President of the European Commission, outlines the stance taken by the Nine on the organisation of international trade.
"Statement by Sir Christopher Soames, Vice-President of the Commission of the European Communities to the G.A.T.T. Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo (12 September 1973)", dans Europe Documents.
www.ena.lu /europe/crisis%20recovery/statement%20christopher%20soames%20tokyo%20september%201973.htm   (512 words)

  
 The Jebel Akhdar War Oman 1954-1959
Smiley, David, Colonel- British commander of the Sultan of Oman's Land Forces.
Soames, Christopher- British Secretary of State for War.
Met with Smiley in Sharjah to discuss increased British military presence in Oman.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1985/MJB.htm   (9465 words)

  
 Nicholas Soames   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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A U.S. federal district court issues an order that bars law enforcement officials from interfering with voter registration and warns against violence.
After telling his son-in-law, Christopher Soames: "I am so bored with it," he never again made an intelligible remark to anyone.
Churchill died at his home at 28 Hyde Park Gate in London shortly after 8:00 a.m.
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 Journal of Ben (3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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Fatty Soames: Christopher Soames, Governor of Zimbabwe (his son, Nicholas, is known as Fat Boy Dim - and the period's wrong for him, anyhow)
My holiday reading has been The Best of 'Dear Bill' by Richard Ingrams and John Wells - a collection of satirical letters puporting to be from Denis Thatcher to Bill Deedes.
rocknerd.org /~Ben/journal   (1511 words)

  
 The British Empire's Last Sunset
An air of grave concern and tension hung over all aspects of the initial phases of in-country planning and preparation.
As well, the man destined to be the last British Governor of Rhodesia, Lord Christopher Soames, travelled to Salisbury, later describing his dangerous venture as, "a leap in the dark".
Meanwhile, at Lancaster House, the talks continued to drag on through December and this delay was actually advantageous to General Acland and his staff providing them with valuable time to select the various 'Assembly Areas' and 'R/Vs' that would soon dot the country.
www.britains-smallwars.com /RRGP/Agila/Sunset.htm   (3368 words)

  
 Kissinger's Public Confession as an Agent of British Influence
One problem is that the democracies have no forum for addressing the future in a concrete way, let alone harmonizing disagreements or implementing common policies.
As my friend Christopher Soames has recently emphasized, the Atlantic Alliance has no institutional machinery for addressing economic or Third World issues, or any long-term political strategy; the European Community, while eminently successful in its political coordination, has no mechanism as yet for formulating a coherent European view on matters of defense.
The economic summits of Western and Japanese leaders, begun in the mid-'70s, are an attempt to surmount this procedural impasse, but they can do little more than call key leaders' attention to key problems in an informal, unsystematic way.
www.larouchepub.com /other/2002/2901_kissinger.html   (6985 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Politics | Comment | The curse of Peter Mandelson
Someone should persuade him to concentrate on improving his French.
If he performs the commissioner's task with conspicuous distinction, he may even rise from the Brussels graveyard and return to government - a feat only accomplished in 30 years by Christopher Soames.
But, on the evidence of his reaction to his new appointment, few of either his friends or enemies will conclude that he will follow that sensible course.
politics.guardian.co.uk /columnist/story/0,9321,1283977,00.html   (823 words)

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