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- Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber, Baron Barber, TD, PC, DL (4 July 1920 – 16 December 2005) was a British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1970 to 1974.
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Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber, Baron Barber, TD, PC, DL (4 July 1920 – 16 December 2005) was a British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1970 to 1974. After serving in both the Territorial Army and the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, Barber studied at Oxford and became a barrister.
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The 1972 United Kingdom budget (also known as the dash for growth budget [1]) was a budget delivered by Anthony Barber, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 21 March 1972.
Dec 16, 2005 · Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber, Baron Barber, was a British Conservative politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1970 to 1974.
Sep 21, 2018 · Anthony Barber, 1970-74. Conservative, under Heath. Anthony Barber was the son a managing director and a Danish mother. After King Edward VI’s Grammar School, Retford, and Cambridge, he planned to forge a legal career. Then war came. Barber was evacuated at Dunkirk in 1940, and then joined the RAF.
Barber believed “a dash for growth” was the answer to the UK’s problems of rising inflation and stagnant output. It was in 1970 that the word “ stagflation ” entered common parlance. Tax, said Barber, pre-empting Kwarteng by 50 years, “too often stultifies enterprise”.
1 day ago · Anthony Barber Obituary. Anthony J. Barber, 71, of Sandusky, died Aug 16, 2024, at his residence. Toft Funeral Home & Crematory, Sandusky, is assisting family with arrangements. To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store. Published by Sandusky Register on Aug. 20, 2024.
The Barber Boom (1971-1974) is the story of an economic gear shift which sent post-war Britain careering around country lanes, before skidding on an oil slick and being sent ditchward. There it was left, engine smoking, entangled in the brambles of inflation.
