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Born to a lady's maid and a carpenter, Heath was educated at Chatham House Grammar School, a boys' grammar school in Ramsgate, Kent, and became a leader within student politics while studying at the University of Oxford. He served as an officer in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War.
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Sir Edward Heath was the Conservative prime minister of Great Britain from 1970 to 1974. Although he was of modest origins, Heath was educated at Oxford, where he was elected president of the University Conservative Association in 1937.
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He was grammar school educated before going to Balliol College, Oxford, where he was awarded an organ scholarship in his first term. He received a second class degree in Philosophy, Politics and...
Aug 4, 2015 · Early years. Edward Richard George Heath, known as Ted Heath, was born in July 1916 in Broadstairs, Kent, into a working class family, the son of a carpenter and a parlour maid. He gained...
Life. Youth. Ted Heath was born the son of a carpenter and a maid from Broadstairs in Kent, England. He was educated at Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate, and in 1935 he went on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. A talented musician, he won the college's organ scholarship in his first term.
He was educated at Chatham School, Ramsgate, and Balliol College, Oxford. At university he was active in the Conservative Party and president of the Oxford Union. After a good war record he sought entry to the House of Commons. He was one of a new breed of young post-war Conservatives, somebody who wanted to be a professional politician.
Edward Heath was born in 1916. He was educated at a grammar school and went on to Oxford University. He served as an artillery officer during the Second World War during the Northwest Europe campaign and was mentioned in dispatches afterwards, in November 1945.
