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  Michael Foot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Isaac Foot was an active member of the Liberal Party and was Liberal MP for Bodmin in Cornwall 1922-1924 and 1929-1935 and a Lord Mayor of Plymouth.
Foot was however a critic of the west's handling of the Korean war, an opponent of West German rearmament in the early 1950s and a founder member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Foot was married to the film-maker, author and feminist historian Jill Craigie from 1949 until her death in 1999.
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 Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon, PC (8 October 1907 - 5 September 1990) was a British diplomat who oversaw moves to independence in various colonies and was UK representative to the United Nations.
Foot was the son of solicitor and Liberal Party MP Isaac Foot, and brother of the MP Sir Dingle Foot, the life peer Lord Foot, and Labour Party MP and former party leader Michael Foot.
Foot was created a life peer as Baron Caradon, of St Cleer in the County of Cornwall, in 1964.
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 Michael Foot biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
He is the brother of the late Sir Dingle Foot, and of Hugh Foot, whose late son was the campaigning journalist, Paul Foot.
Isaac Foot was an active member of the Liberal Party and was Liberal MP for Bodmin in Cornwall 1922-1924 and 1929-1935.
Foot claims that the media created a story out of a 'a perfectly good jacket', a dark green coat, which he wore over his fl suit (bought from Herbie Frogg in Jermyn Street), to keep himself warm on a cold November morning.
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 Telegraph | News | Paul Foot
Paul Foot, the radical journalist who died of a heart attack on Sunday aged 66, was a tireless champion of the underdog, and fearlessly exposed some of the most notorious fraudsters of his time.
Foot's bitterness and aggression in debate were in stark contrast to the love he inspired in friends such as Richard Ingrams and Auberon Waugh, who held him in the highest esteem without in any way sharing his views.
Foot's high reputation as a journalist was reflected in the honour done him by his peers.
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 Footed -- Recommendations and Resources
He was the son of Isaac Foot and the brother of Sir Dingle Foot, QC, Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon and Michael Foot.
The plural of ''foot'' is ''feet'', and this pair is one of seven mutated English plurals.
He is the younger brother of the late lawyer Sir Dingle Foot, the Liberal politician Lord Foot and of the late Lord Caradon, a former Governor of Cyprus, whose late son was the campaigning journalist, Paul Foot.
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 Michael Foot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Foot was considered too left-wing to be offered a place in Harold Wilson's first government, from 1964 to 1970, but after 1970 the party moved to the left and Wilson came to an accommodation with Foot as its leader.
Foot was already 66, and was neither a natural leader, a good orator or a political campaigner.
Foot retired from the House of Commons in 1992 and returned to work as a journalist, interested in humanitarian issues, especially concerning the Baltic States.
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 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Paul Foot
Paul Foot, who has died aged 66, was everything that is best in our gnarled old trade, and he graced it for five decades with stories and investigations that tumble down the years.
It was the ritual vandalising of the poet's statue by hearty rowers that first awoke the young Foot's contempt for the rich and privileged, though his education at Shrewsbury school, and his high commissioner father Sir Hugh Foot (later Lord Caradon), meant he was uncomfortably close to both himself.
Foot's weekly column ran for almost 14 years, ending in spectacular style with him investigating the bloodletting of Mirror chief executive David Montgomery after Robert Maxwell's death and putting his report forward for publication.
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 Human Leg Door Knocker: anvilfire iForge Demo
Hugh's strike plate or "anvil" has a countersunk hole in the front and the base plate is countersunk fron the back and the rivets are flush.
Hugh has lots of practice as this is a regular item he makes and his time will be much less than yours or mine.
Hugh uses a low head that is almost flush to the sides of the bracket.
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 The Observer | Comment | The epistles of Saint Paul
Foot was a shining exception, the best hope for thousands who had nowhere else to turn, their court of last appeal.
Foot's campaign to free the four men falsely convicted of the murder of Carl Bridgewater was the result of a relentless exposure of the flaws in the prosecution case.
Foot rescued his reputation from the critics and syllabus setters who sought to portray him as a love poet and showed him to be what he was, a poet of rebellion.
observer.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,6903,1268684,00.html   (956 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Obituary: Paul Foot
Foot, tall, good looking, full of gravitas, with a first-class brain and impeccable liberal credentials, was a lifelong socialist and iconoclast and perhaps the most influential investigative journalist of his age.
He was born in 1937, the son of the journalist Hugh Foot, later to become Lord Caradon, the last British governor of Cyprus and the UK's Ambassador to the United Nations from 1964 to 1970.
Foot resigned from the Mirror in 1993 after a number of his articles, critical of the paper's management, were spiked.
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 RESPECT - The Unity Coalition - News
For Foot it was a central principle of socialism that the people who make decisions should be accountable to the people who are affected by them.
Paul Foot was sent to Shrewsbury, where he was an exact contemporary (and collaborator in magazines) of the future founders of Private Eye Christopher Booker and Willie Rushton, and its future longstanding editor Richard Ingrams.
Foot's first job on leaving university, where he edited the magazine Isis and was President of the Oxford Union, was in Glasgow as a correspondent for the Daily Record, sister paper of the Daily Mirror.
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 Encyclopedia: Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon
The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as...
The Right Honourable Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot QC (1905-1978), was a British lawyer and politician, was born in Plymouth in Devon.
Michael Foot The Right Honourable Michael Mackintosh Foot (born 23 July 1913), British politician, was leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983.
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 Hugh Foot --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Foot was the son of a Liberal member of Parliament, and his three brothers were also elected to Parliament.
The town, on the lower slopes and at the foot of a hill, occupies both banks of the Verse River, which is a tributary of the Oise.
In classical (or quantitative) verse, a foot, or metron, is a combination of two or more long and short syllables.
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 Hugh Foot -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon, PC (October 8, 1907 - September 5, 1990), was a (The people of Great Britain) British diplomat who oversaw moves to independence in various colonies and was UK representative to the (An organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security) United Nations.
He was the father of the late (Click link for more info and facts about Paul Foot) Paul Foot, a (A writer for newspapers and magazines) journalist.
Foot was created a (A British peer whose title lapses at death) life peer as Baron Caradon, of St Cleer in the County of Cornwall in 1964.
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 Paul Foot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Paul Foot, the son of Sir Hugh Foot (Lord Caradon) was born on 8th November, 1937.
Foot resigned from the Daily Mirror in 1993 when attempts were made to ban an article attacking the newspaper's new chief executive.
I first met Paul Foot in the very early 1960s: he was in the Glasgow Young Socialists, I was in the Newcastle Young Socialists, and we were poles apart.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JOUfoot.htm   (3815 words)

  
 ClimbingWashington.com - Features : A Walk In the Park Part 3
Hugh's theory was that he could insert the tip of the foot into thin cracks, apply torque, and stand up.
Hugh and Al got a lot of stares as they put on their climbing legs and started climbing on the UW rock.
Hugh downclimbed to the lip, then pulled his gear, a strenuous exercise involving establishing on the rock, unclipping and taking out each piece, then letting go, falling off, then being yarded up by me and Russ to the next piece, and repeating the process.
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 FRUS, 1958-60, Vol. X, Part 1: 14 - Cyprus
Foot believes that if he is given five years without terrorism he can build up a feeling in the island against both these extreme courses and produce a situation in which both communities in Cyprus will decide to remain united.
Foot reiterated with emphasis throughout conversation his conviction that this is last opportunity in foreseeable future to take useful forward step toward solution Cyprus problem and that he sees no alternative to plan as proposed.
Foot said they were faced with impossible situation of trying negotiate with Turks at time when latter admit they willing and able turn mob violence in Cyprus on or off to suit their case.
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 Encyclopedia: Hugh Foot
The Right Honouarable Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon PC, (October 8, 1907 - September 5, 1990), was a British diplomat who oversaw moves to independence in various colonies and was UK representative to the United Nations.
Foot was the son of solicitor and Liberal Party MP Isaac Foot, and brother of MP Sir Dingle Foot, John Foot, Baron Foot and Labour Party MP and former party leader, Michael Foot.
The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hugh-Foot   (738 words)

  
 Author : works by Hugh Foot
Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon (October 8, 1907 - September 5, 1990), life peer created on 27 October 1964.Son of solicitor and Liberal Party MP Isaac Foot, brother of the late Sir Dingle Foot and of Labour Party MP and former party leader the Rt Hon.
His father, Isaac Foot, was a solicitor, an active member of the Liberal Party and Liberal Member of Parliament for Bodmin in Cornwall 1922-1924 and 1929-1935.
His other brother Hugh Foot (later Lord Caradon, father of campaigning journalist Paul Foot) was also active in politics and represented the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964-1970.Dingle Foot was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1930.
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 Amazon.com: My Left Foot (1989) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
His mother (Brenda Fricker, who won an Oscar for her performance) loves him with all her heart, but fears that he is retarded as well, until one day, pouring sweat and out of breath from his exertions, he writes "Mother" on the floor with a piece of chalk.
After much effort the foot succeeds in placing the record on the turntable, and delicately placing the tonearm with the needle on top of the record.
The opening with the foot that switches on the phonograph takes place at least three decades after his birth in 1932 when he acquired his severe condition through a problematic delivery.
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 COVER STORY: HUGH IS BACK A MONGOUS TORCHED IN 1989, THE GIANT GORILLA RETURNS TO HIS PEDESTAL, THANKS TO DESIGN WORK ...
There Hugh II stood last week, grinning sheepishly at the world as workmen and artisans refined his foam features with sanders, put a coat of fiberglass on his derriere and began painting him.
When completed, Hugh II will be wearing gigantic red swim shorts and sport a huge pair of sunglasses, through which park visitors will be able to see his squinty little eyes light up occasionally.
Early this spring, with Hugh II still lying on his back near the Ocean Breeze equipment shed, Gallup and Gelardi had a parting of the ways on the progress of the project.
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 Hugh Leggat - Bass Guitar / Vocals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Hugh, once the leather clad bassist with A Foot in Coldwater, a Toronto-based band that promised more than it was ever given the opportunity to deliver, has recently developed an impressive literary bent.
Capitol’s commitment to the Leggat project is particularly commendable given the complexity, scope and intensity of the brothers’ songs and their indifference to contemporary musical conventions.
Though he eschews commercial considerations, Hugh admitted that without the interest of discerning FM programmers, Illuminations could well be another lost masterpiece and that bothers him.
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Paul Mackintosh Foot (November 8, 1937 - July 18, 2004) was a British radical investigative journalist, political campaigner, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
Paul Foot was the son of Hugh Foot, later Lord Caradon, who was governor of Cyprus during the independence battle with Britain in the 1950s, and later represented the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964-1970.
A special tribute issue of the Socialist Review magazine, of which he was on the editorial board for 19 years, collected together many of his articles.
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 Paul Foot biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
He was the nephew of former leader of the Labour Party Michael Foot.
He died of a heart attack while waiting at Stansted Airport to begin a family holiday in Ireland.
Private Eye issue 1116 included a tribute to Foot from the many people whom he worked with over the years.
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 ipedia.com: Paul Foot Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Paul Mackintosh Foot (November 8, 1937 - July 18, 2004) was a British radical investigative journalist and long time member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
Paul Foot was son of Hugh Foot, later Lord Caradon, who was governor of Cyprus during the independence battle with Britain in the 1950s, and later represented the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964-1970 and was the nephew of former leader of the Labour Party Michael Foot.
He was Journalist of the Year in the What The Papers Say Awards in 1972 and 1989, Campaigning Journalist of the Year in the 1980 British Press Awards and won the George Orwell Prize for Journalism in 1994.
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 Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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