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Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH, PC (/ s æ n d z /; 24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987), was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a son-in-law of Winston Churchill and played a key role in promoting European unity after World War II
Duncan Sandys was a British politician and statesman who exerted major influence on foreign and domestic policy during mid-20th-century Conservative administrations. The son of a member of Parliament, Sandys was first elected to Parliament as a Conservative in 1935. He became a close ally of his.
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Nov 27, 1987 · Lord Duncan-Sandys, the longtime British politician and diplomat who negotiated the independence of nearly a dozen British colonies and territories in the 1960's, died yesterday at...
Apr 22, 2022 · People speculated that the “headless man” was wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill’s son-in-law, Duncan Sandys, as it was reported that only the Minister of Defense had access to a Polaroid ...
- Eloise Barry
Aug 5, 2019 · A book review of Peter Brooke's biography of Duncan Sandys, the last Colonial Secretary to oversee the end of Britain's empire. The reviewer highlights Sandys' paradoxical role as a decolonization opponent and his post-office activism.
- James Robert Brennan
- 2020
Nov 10, 2017 · A biographical overview of Duncan Sandys, a prominent Conservative politician who shaped Britain's late decolonisation policy and promoted its role in Europe. Learn about his background, career, personality and controversies in this chapter from a book series on imperial and post-colonial studies.
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A book by Peter Brooke that examines the role of Duncan Sandys, a Conservative politician and colonial secretary, in the decolonisation process of the 1960s. It explores his involvement in Rhodesia, immigration, and the Commonwealth Immigrants Act.
