1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Warwick and Leamington Constituency – Biography of Eden

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Warwick and Leamington

CANDIDATE : Eden

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Anthony Eden, deputy Leader of the Opposition, was at 39 the youngest Foreign Secretary for over a century. He attained the office in 1935, but resigned in 1938 because of disagreement with the then,Premier, ?r. Neville Chamberlain, over relations with Italy. Born in 1897, he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered Parliament in 1923, and three years later began his long association with foreign affairs when he was appointed Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Austen Chamberlain, then Foreign Secretary. In 1931 he was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and in 1934 Lord Privy Seal, becoming Minister for League of Nations Affairs in 1935. Following the resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare in 1935 over the Abyssinian question, Mr. Eden was appointed Foreign Secretary. After his resignation in 1938 he was out of office until September, 1939, when he re-entered the Cabinet as Dominions Secretary. In Mr. Churchill’s war-time Government he was first Secretary of State for War, and on Lord Halifax’s appointment as British Ambassador in Washington in 1940, Mr. Eden returned to the Foreign Office, where he remained until 1945. Mr. Eden led the British delegation to the San Francisco Conference which drew up the United Nations Charter. He recently made an extensive tour of th<£ Commonwealth.

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