biography
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Duncan-Sandys, Duncan Edwin Sandys, Baron
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pronunciation:
[duhngkn sandz]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908–87)
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| biography:
| British statesman and founder of the Civic Trust (1956). He studied at Oxford, worked for the diplomatic service (1930–3), and became Conservative MP for Norwood, London (1935–45), and for Streatham, (1950–74). He was minister of supply in the Churchill government (1951), minister of housing and local government (1954), minister of defence (1957–9), minister of aviation (1959–60), and secretary of state for commonwealth relations (1960–4), and for the colonies (1962–4). In 1935 he married Diana Churchill, the daughter of Winston Churchill (divorced 1960). He was made a life peer in 1974. |
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