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Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne CH PC KC (born Michael Hecht; 7 July 1941) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005.
May 15, 2024 · Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne is a British politician who was the leader of the Conservative Party (2003–05). Howard’s father, Bernat Hecht, was a Jewish Romanian immigrant who settled in England in 1939 and changed his name to Bernard Howard.
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Michael Howard was the Conservative candidate to become Prime Minister at the 2005 General Election. The Conservatives did not win the election, however they had 33 more seats in Parliament than they did before.
Dec 1, 2019 · Michael Howard, an eminent military historian and decorated combat veteran who helped redefine the chronicling of conflict between states and pioneered a so-called “English school” of...
Jan 1, 2020 · A tribute to Sir Michael Howard, who died in 2019, a giant in the fields of military history and strategic studies. He was a decorated veteran, a Clausewitz translator, a policy adviser, and a historian who stressed the social and political dimensions of war.
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Dec 7, 2020 · When Michael Howard took up his lectureship in Military Studies, as it was then called, the Chichele Professorship of Military History at Oxford was held by Cyril Falls. Falls was a balanced, sane commentator who wrote particularly well on the war in which he himself had served, the First World War.
May 23, 2018 · Michael Howard [1], 1941–, British politician, leader of the Conservative party (2003–5), b. Llanelli, Wales, as Michael Hecht. The son of immigrants (his father changed the family name after becoming a British subject in 1947), he was educated at Cambridge and became a successful barrister.
