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  William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate DSO DFC PC (10 May 1877–17 November 1960) was a British Liberal MP who later joined the Labour Party.
Benn was the second son of Sir John Benn, MP, and his father-in-law Daniel Holmes was also an MP.
Benn was elected as Labour MP for Gorton near Manchester in 1937.
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 Tony Benn - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
eo:Tony BENN Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born April 3, 1925), known as Tony Benn, and briefly as the 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British politician regarded as being on the left of the Labour Party.
Tony Benn's father William Wedgwood Benn was a Liberal MP who defected to Labour and was later elevated to the Lords.
Benn's Bristol South-East constituency was abolished by boundary changes in 1983, and he was defeated in the neighbouring seat of Bristol East by the Conservative's first non-white MP, Jonathan Sayeed.
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 Viscount Stansgate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Viscount Stansgate is a currently-suspended title in the peerage of the United Kingdom that has had two holders.
The second Viscount, Tony Benn, inherited the title in 1960, and disclaimed it in 1963 on the day the Peerage Act 1963 passed into law and made it possible for him to do so.
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, 2nd Viscount Stansgate (b.
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 William Wedgwood Benn
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate (1877 - 1960) was a British Liberal MP who later joined the Labour Party and served as Secretary of State for India in Ramsay MacDonald's second administration.
In 1940 he was created Viscount Stansgate and in 1945 he became Secretary of State for Air under Clement Atlee.
On his death he was succeeded as Lord Stansgate by his son Tony Benn.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
The Right Honourable Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born April 3, 1925), known as Tony Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British politician regarded as being on the left of the Labour Party.
Knowing that he would be disqualified from the British House of Commons when his father died, Benn campaigned from the early 1950s for a change in the law to allow peers to renounce their titles and continue to sit in the Commons.
Tony Benn was married to American-born educationalist Caroline Middleton DeCamp (from Cincinnati, Ohio, daughter of a lawyer) from 1949 until her death in 2000.
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 The Ultimate William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate - American History Information Guide and Reference
In 1940 he was created Viscount Stansgate and in 1945 he became Secretary of State for Air under Clement Attlee.
On his death he was succeeded as Viscount Stansgate by his second son Tony Benn.
He was son of the liberal politician John Williams Benn.
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 Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Winston Churchill, his father asked his elder brother Michael if he would object; as he intended training for the priesthood, Michael Wedgwood Benn had no objections, but two years later he was shot down and killed and his younger brother became heir to the Viscountcy of Stansgate.
Benn's Bristol South-East constituency was abolished by boundary changes in 1983, and he lost the selection battle to stand in the safe seat of Bristol South to
Benn met US-born educationalist Caroline Middleton DeCamp (from Cincinnati, Ohio, daughter of a lawyer) over tea at Worcester College in 1949 and nine days later he proposed to her on a park bench in the city.
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 Wedgwood india, wedgwood blue, wedgwood & co   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Wedgwood india Wedgwood, since 1759, has been one of the finest names in tableware and giftware,the most being their unique Jasper line.
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate (1877 - 1960) was a British.
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 The UK version of Nehru-Gandhi clan
His grandfather was William Wedgwood Benn, first viscount Stansgate, who was secretary of state for India in 1929.
Hilary's father, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, was a member of both the Wilson and Callaghan cabinets and his decision to give up his hereditary title in the 1960s resulted in a three-year constitutional battle before he won the right to sit in the House of Commons representing a Bristol constituency.
Hilary is a loyal supporter of Prime Minister Tony Blair and describes himself as a Benn, not a Bennite, a reference to the committed left-wing idealism of his father.
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 William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate - Gurupedia
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate (1877 - 1960) was a British Liberal
In 1940 he was created Viscount Stansgate and in 1945 he became
On his death he was succeeded as Lord Stansgate by his second son Tony Benn.
gurupedia.com /w/wi/william_wedgwood_benn,_1st_viscount_stansgate.htm   (103 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
Hilary Benn, the new International Development Secretary, is one of the few politicians in recent memory to follow both his father and grandfather into the Cabinet.
His grandfather was William Wedgwood Benn, first Viscount Stansgate, who was Secretary of State for India in Ramsay MacDonald's Cabinet in 1929.
Mr Benn's father, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, was a prominent and controversial figure in the Cabinets of both Harold Wilson and James Callaghan.
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 thePeerage.com - nil and others
He was the son of Sir John Williams Benn, 1st Bt.
     William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate is the son of Sir John Williams Benn, 1st Bt.
She was the daughter of Sir John Williams Benn, 1st Bt.
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 thePeerage.com - Catharine Gostlin and others
     William Benn was a quilting manufacturer in Hyde, Cheshire, England.
She married Reverend Julius Benn, son of William Benn, on 13 February 1850.
     William Taylor was a joiner in Gerrards, Cheshire, England.
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 Viscount Stansgate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Viscount Stansgate is a currently disclaimed title in the peerage of the United Kingdom that has had two holders.
The title was not destroyed and will reappear when Tony Benn dies, presumably being inherited by his elder son Stephen Benn.
This page was last modified 21:05, 29 December 2005.
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 WHISP 37/2
Although he won a famous victory over Winston Churchill to become Labour MP for Dundee in November 1922, he was passed over for the foreign secretaryship of the first Labour government fourteen months later.
William Wedgwood Benn, first Viscount Stansgate (1877-1960), father of Tony Benn MP, served as MP for Aberdeen North from 1928-1931.
Donald Dewar (1937-), presently First Minister of the Scottish Parliament, first entered the House of Commons as the MP for Aberdeen South and served there from 1966 until his defeat in 1970.
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 The Ultimate Secretary of State for Air Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
On April 1, 1964 the Air Ministry was incorporated into the Ministry of Defence and the position of Secretary of State for Air was abolished.
William Warrender Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree (October 14, 1930 - November 5, 1931)
William Wedgwood Benn, Viscount Stansgate (August 3, 1945 - October 4, 1946)
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 The National Archives | Search the archives | National Register of Archives | Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Lord Beaverbrook: corresp and papers
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate: corresp and papers
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 Collections in the Parliamentary Archives
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Correspondence and papers of Sir William Allen Jowitt (1885-1957)
Political Papers of William Mather Rutherford Pringle, MP Records of the Proportional Representation Society
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 William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate (1877-1960), Politician
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate (1877-1960), Politician
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