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  1. Harold Wilson. James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970 and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He was the Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 ...

  2. May 20, 2024 · Harold Wilson (born March 11, 1916, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England—died May 24, 1995, London) was a Labour Party politician who was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976. The son of an industrial chemist, Wilson was educated at the University of Oxford, where, as a fellow of University College (1938 ...

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  4. Nov 3, 2022 · Born James Harold Wilson on March 11, 1916 in Yorkshire, England, the future Prime Minister wasn't an obvious choice for politics. The son of an industrial chemist and a teacher, he would go on to ...

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  5. Nov 20, 2019 · Harold Wilson’s Humble Beginnings. Wilson was perhaps the most down-to-earth prime minister the U.K. had seen up until that point. Thoroughly Northern, James Harold Wilson was born in 1916 to a lower-middle-class couple. His father was an industrial chemist named James Herbert and his mother named Ethel Sedden, who worked for the British ...

  6. Apr 27, 2019 · Harold Wilson served as prime minister for almost eight years, then a peacetime record. For 13 years he led the Labour Party, winning four general elections and losing one.In 1976 he gave up ...

  7. Apr 11, 2024 · Harold Wilson, full name James Harold Wilson, was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire on 11 March 1916. The son of an industrial chemist and schoolteacher, he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford before being drafted into the civil service following the outbreak of the Second World War. He was a keen academic in ...

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