biography
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Crossman, Richard (Howard Stafford)
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| lived:
| (1907–74)
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| biography:
| British statesman, born in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, where he became a philosophy tutor, and was leader of the Labour group on Oxford City Council (1934–40). In 1938 he joined the staff of the New Statesman. In 1945 he became a Labour MP, and under Wilson was minister of housing and local government (1964–6), then secretary of state for social services and head of the Department of Health (1968–70). He was editor of the New Statesman (1970–2). His best-known work is his series of political diaries, begun in 1952, keeping a detailed record of the day-to-day workings of government. They were published in four volumes (1975–81), despite attempts to suppress them. |
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