Search results
William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, KT, CH, MC, PC, DL (28 June 1918 – 1 July 1999) was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretary from 1979 to 1983 and as de facto Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1988.
- 1939–1946
- Conservative
Politics. This article is more than 24 years old. Obituary. Viscount Whitelaw of Penrith. As deputy prime minister, he loyally defended Thatcher's revolution, but secretly lamented the Tory...
Whitelaw, William Stephen Ian (‘Willie’) (1918–99), Viscount Whitelaw of Penrith , first secretary of state for Northern Ireland, was born 28 June 1918 in Edinburgh, the only child of William Alexander Whitelaw (1892–1919), an army officer who died of pneumonia after his health was destroyed in a gas attack in the first world war, and ...
He was a bluff Scottish squire who became the mainstay of two Conservative administrations of very different character, under Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher. One of the few who saw his...
William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, KT, CH, MC, PC, DL (28 June 1918 – 1 July 1999) was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretary from 1979 to 1983 and as de facto Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1988.
Jul 2, 1999 · Viscount Whitelaw of Penrith, the crucial link between the age of Tory paternalism and the harsher world of Margaret Thatcher, died during his sleep on Wednesday night, two days after his 81st...
Viscount Whitelaw, as he became in a rare creation , was always loyal to his leader, first as Ted Heath's Chief Whip and Northern Ireland Secretary, then as deputy leader to...
