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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.
Nov 27, 1987 · November 26, 1987 at 7:00 p.m. EST. LONDON, NOV. 26 -- Lord Duncan-Sandys, 79, a member of Sir Winston Churchill's World War II Cabinet and a commonwealth secretary in the early 1960s who assisted ...
