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Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys [1] CH, PC ( / sændz /; 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 .
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Duncan Sandys (born Jan. 24, 1908, London, Eng.—died Nov. 26, 1987, London) 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.
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Nov 27, 1987 · Born Jan. 24, 1908, Duncan Edwin Sandys was the only son of Capt. George John Sandys, a wealthy Conservative member of Parliament, and the former Mildred Cameron, a New Zealander.
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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 ...
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Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH, PC ( / sændz /; 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. Quick Facts Secretary of State ...
- Sir Alec Douglas-HomeEdward Heath
Nov 10, 2017 · On a personal level Sandys was largely a private man and had a reputation for being ‘unclubable’ if charming to women. Footnote 1 An only child, he was born in 1908 to George John Sandys , Conservative MP for Wells and soldier in both the Boer War and World War I, and Mildred (née Cameron), the daughter of a New Zealander, remembered by Sandys’ second wife as a ‘tough’ type.
Aug 5, 2019 · By the time Duncan Sandys (1962–64) was appointed Colonial Secretary, only a handful of difficult cases remained—Kenya, the Central African Federation, and Southern Arabia most prominently. An effective bureaucratic brawler and hatchet man, Sandys continued the government’s frenetic pace of decolonization, overseeing Kenya’s ...
