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Christopher Soames. Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, GCMG, GCVO, CH, CBE, PC (12 October 1920 – 16 September 1987) was a British Conservative politician who served as a European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia. He was previously Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1950 to 1966.
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Oct 10, 1996 · Christopher Benjamin and Amanda Redman star in two six-part BBC radio crime dramas, created by Christopher Lee. In these compelling murder mysteries, MI6 officers Henry Colvil and Alex Soames become involved in a pair of complex cases which take them to the very top of the political and religious spheres. Series 1.
The opening of the Soames archives. Guide to the papers of Churchill's youngest daughter Mary Soames and her husband, the politician and diplomat Christopher Soames.
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Soames was born in 1948 in Croydon, Surrey, the eldest son of Sir Christopher Soames and Dame Mary (née Spencer-Churchill) Soames. He is a grandson of the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and a grandnephew of Lady Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide, the wife of the founder of the Scout movement, Lord Baden-Powell.
- 1967–1975
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Jul 24, 2015 · The wedding day of Christopher and Mary Soames, 1947 A Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey celebrating the life of The Churchill Centre’s beloved Patron, The Lady Soames LG DBE, took place on 20 November 2014. Mary, the youngest child of Winston Churchill, passed away aged 91 the previous spring, at which time there was a private ...
Jun 3, 2014 · Last October when The Churchill Centre presented a bust of Winston Churchill to the United States Congress for permanent display in the Capitol building, Lady Soames was able to follow the ceremony from her home via a live-stream video through the internet.
telephone call to Christopher and Mary Soames on Christmas Day 1979.17 This helped to protect both Soames and Carrington from Tory right-wing criticisms of his handling of the situation in Rhodesia, led by Julian Amery, as they had the unstinting support of the Prime Minister. It was Thatcher who got the credit for the ‘bold’ appointment.18
