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| | Why War? Keywords: Margaret Thatcher |
 | | April 1982 - John Biffen succeeds Francis Pym as Lord President of the Council. | | | She resigned on November 22, after the first round of a leadership challenge initiated by Michael Heseltine, and was replaced as party leader and Prime Minister by John Major. | | | January 1988 - John Wakeham succeeds Lord Whitelaw as Lord President. |
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| | Peers list honours MPs |
| | TEN former Cabinet ministers are among 21 retiring MPs ennobled in a list of new peers published today. | | | On the Conservative side, all the new titles went to senior figures in past governments. | | | The three Liberal Democrats include Sir David Steel and David Alton, who came to symbolise the polarised debate over abortion. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/04/19/npeer19.html
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| | BBC Online - On The Record - Interviews |
| | Under the headline "The Government isn't working" The Sunday Telegraph declares that John Major and his Ministers are in a state of frenzied INactivity, powerless to affect events. | | | And in the Mail on Sunday, the former Cabinet Minister John Biffen writes of a policy vacuum and calls on the Prime Minister to take "decisive action" urgently. | | | WATTS: Well, I think it's inevitable that when we have moved away from the very clear rules based exchange rate pegged system of monetary policy to something which is inevitably much more discretionary, that it will not be clear immediately to the markets how they should expect the Government to react. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/otr/intext92-93/BBCrisisdisco7.2.93.html
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| | Guardian Days of the living dead |
| | Jim Callaghan told Barbara Castle that she was too old: "I must reduce the average age of cabinet and I want to ask for your portfolio." John Patten was ushered in and out by a Downing street back door to avoid the cameras. | | | Recollections will vary too as dignity is salvaged. | | | John Biffen read about his semi-detached status, Frank Field learnt of the impracticality of his reforms and John Patten could be fully seized of his unsuitability months before the axe fell. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4078496-103563,00.html
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| | AIAON ON THIS DAY 27 1992: Betty Boothroyd is new Speaker |
| | They were followed by the former Conservative cabinet minister, John Biffen, who proposed the amendment to substitute Miss Boothroyd's name. | | | Sir Edward Heath, who as the new Father of the House presided over the election, called on Mr Brooke's supporters first to put their case. | | | The Prime Minister, John Major, congratulated her and said, "You have become our Speaker-elect because this House trusts you. |
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http://amiabstractornot.highlyillogical.org/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/27/newsid_2502000/2502597.stm
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| | John Bidwell - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation John Bidwell |
| | John Bidwell (August 5 1819- April 4, 1900) was California settler and politician. | | | It was the largest total vote and highest percentage of the vote received by any Prohibition Party national ticket. | | | He is famous for leading one of the first emigrant parties along the California Trail. |
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http://www.encyclopedia-glossary.com/en/John-Bidwell.html
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| | BBC NEWS |
| | John Biffen opposed state intervention in economic management and championed tight fiscal policy — stances that prevented his advancement under Edward Heath, but helped his promotion under Margaret Thatcher. | | | He served as chief secretary to the Treasury, trade and industry secretary and leader of the House of Commons. | | | Click on an individual in the image or use the drop-down menu below to find out more about the members of her first cabinet, and what has happened to them since. |
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| | The Trollope Society |
| | John Biffen, also a Cabinet Minister, and formerly Financial Secretary to The Treasury. | | | The speakers on Wednesday 25 March 1998 were Caroline Moore (senior literary critic on London's Daily Telegraph) and Albert Gordon (Chairman of the Trollope Society of New York). | | | Since the Chairman, John Letts, was a member of The Reform Club in Pall Mall, it seemed simplest to hold the Dinners there. |
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http://trollope.davanaweb.com/tsociety/dinners.html
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| | John Nott: Information From Answers.com |
| | The Right Honourable Sir John William Frederic Nott (born February 1, 1932; Bideford, Devon) was a British Conservative Party politician prominent in the late 1970s and early 1980s. | | | He featured heavily in the public eye as Secretary of State for Defence during the Argentine invasion of the Falklands and the subsequent Falklands War. | | | It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer) |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/john-nott
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| | Chief Secretary to the Treasury |
| | John Major (June 13, 1987 - July 24, 1989) | | | John MacGregor (September 2, 1985 - June 13, 1987) | | | John Boyd-Carpenter (July 13, 1962 - October 16, 1964) |
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| | Francis Pym: Information From Answers.com |
| | He stood down at the 1987 election and was given a life peerage as Lord Pym. | | | Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley | | | He is a descendent of the 17th century Parliamentarian John Pym. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eugenics |
| | These threaten to modify Galton's law of regression towards mediocrity, and indeed to nullify his ancestral law. | | | During the last ten years, through the work of Professors Bateson and Biffen of Cambridge, the principles of Mendelism have been brought into the question. | | | Then more careful artificial selection would be needed. |
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| | Labour is really new, admits Biffin |
| | Turning on his own Government, Mr Biffen says its economic policies have been "ill-starred and disastrous in their political reckoning" and are likely to lead to firm defeat in the election. | | | John Biffen, a former Leader of the House and a prominent Tory intellectual, writes in today's Tribune newspaper that Tony Blair's modernisation of the party is substantial and well-calculated. | | | A FORMER Tory Cabinet minister says today that Labour has made genuine changes but has moved so far to the Right that it should now be seen as "neo-Thatcherite". |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/02/06/nwir106.html
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| | Guardian C-charge protest does not check out |
| | Before starting out at John Lewis, he worked in Whitehall - serving as private secretary to Labour's Roy Hattersley as well as the Conservative ministers John Nott and John Biffen. | | | John Lewis stepped up its campaign against London's congestion charge yesterday by publishing independent research which concluded that the £5-a-day fee for motorists had cut sales at its Oxford Street store by 5.5% last year. | | | John Lewis is alone among major retailers in whining about the charge. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4907507-103676,00.html
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| | thePeerage.com - Person Page 14223 |
| | This page was created by John Cardinal's Second Site v1.8.0. | | | Sarah Drew married, secondly, John Biffen, Baron Biffen, son of Victor W. Biffen, in 1979. | | | Through her marriage, Sarah Drew gained the title of Baroness Biffen on 19 April 1997. |
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| | October 2 - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | 1780 - American Revolutionary War: British spy John Andre is hanged by American forces for his role in Benedict Arnold's plot to sell West Point to the British Army. | | | 2003 - John T. Dunlop, Secretary of Labor under Gerald Ford |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/october_2.htm
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| | Misc Ministers |
| | * John Biffen was elected MP for Oswestry at a By-election on 8.11.61. | | | * John Gummer was MP for Lewisham West in 1970, lost it in February 1974, won Eye in 1979 and then moved to Suffock Coastal in 1983. |
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| | President of the Board of Trade - FreeEncyclopedia |
| | Richard John Hely Hutchinson, 4th Earl of Donoughmore 1859 | | | Frederick John Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon 1841-1843 | | | Frederick John Robinson 1818-1823 (also Treasurer of the Navy[?]) |
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| | NKF - Perceptions - Dialysis at home and abroad by Lord Biffen |
| | The Kingsbury centre must be the last home of deference; it was "Lord Biffen" from the start. | | | I am at home with the NHS practice of using Christian names and at Guy's I answer to John or "my dear" or even "darling". | | | NKF - Perceptions - Dialysis at home and abroad by Lord Biffen |
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| | Vindication - John Owen, A Vindication of some Passages in a Discourse |
| | Owen evinces a strength of feeling, in some parts of his "Vindication," which may But the vindication of some sacred truths, petulantly traduced by this | | | Vindication for De Vindication for De Gaulle John Biffen Wednesday June 15, 2005 The Guardian I am sorry we shall not have a referendum on the European constitution. | | | Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible. |
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| | FOUND info about A nation in doubt John Biffen doubt |
| | A nation in doubt John Biffen doubt JUPITER | | | FOUND info about A nation in doubt John Biffen doubt | | | This Title from this Author is sold online here: |
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| | Craig's Book Club Index of Book Reviews Plus More |
| | John Baxter, A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict | | | Laura Miller (editor), The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors | | | Matthew Stover, Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith |
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| | The Autograph Collectors Gallery HIS 120 John Biffen |
| | The Autograph Collectors Gallery HIS 120 John Biffen | | | Former Tory minister . 8x6 colour portrait signed & dated on reverse 1981 |
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| | Bibliography |
| | Biffen, J., Inside the House of Commons: Behind the Scenes at Westminster, Grafton Books, 1989. | | | Magnus, P., Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist, John Murray, 1964. | | | Marder, A. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow. |
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