biography
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Howe (of Aberavon), (Richard Edward) Geoffrey Howe, Baron
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| British statesman, born in Port Talbot, SC Wales, UK. He studied at Cambridge, was called to the bar in 1952 and became a Conservative MP in 1964. Knighted in 1970, he became solicitor general (1970–2), minister for trade and consumer affairs (1972–4), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1979–1983), and foreign secretary (1983–9). In 1989 he was made deputy prime minister, Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Commons, but resigned from the government (Nov 1990) in opposition to Mrs Thatcher's hostility towards European monetary union. He was created a life peer in 1992, and a Companion of Honour in 1996. |
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