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Benn's father had been created Viscount Stansgate in 1942 when Winston Churchill increased the number of Labour peers to aid political work in the House of Lords ; at this time, Benn's elder brother Michael was intending to enter the priesthood and had no objections to inheriting a peerage.
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Benn's paternal grandfather was John Benn, a successful politician who was created a baronet in 1914, and his father William Wedgwood Benn was a Liberal Member of Parliament who later crossed the floor to the Labour Party.
Benn's contact with leading politicians of the day dates back to his earliest years ; he met Ramsay MacDonald when he was five, David Lloyd George when he was 12 and Mahatma Gandhi in 1931, while his father was Secretary of State for India.
When William Wedgwood Benn, Tony Benn's father, agreed to accept the Viscountcy, he ensured that the would-be heir, his eldest son Michael, did not plan to enter the House of Commons.
Benn's and had
In a subsequent debate in the Commons, Benn's demand for " a full analysis of the costs in life, equipment and money in this tragic and unnecessary war " was rejected by Margaret Thatcher, who, apparently unaware of Benn's service in World War Two and the loss of his brother, stated that " he would not enjoy the freedom of speech that he put to such excellent use unless people had been prepared to fight for it ".
In the period since Benn's defeat in Bristol, Michael Foot had stepped down after the general election in June 1983 ( which saw Labour return a mere 209 MPs ) and was succeeded in October of that year by Neil Kinnock.
However, some miners considered Benn's 1977 industry reforms to have caused problems during the strike ; firstly, that they led to huge wage differences and distrust between miners of different regions ; and secondly that the controversy over balloting miners for these reforms made it unclear as to whether a ballot was needed for a strike or whether it could be deemed as a " regional matter " in the same way that the 1977 reforms had been.
Benn was arguably the biggest rising star in European sport at the time and Logan had come closest to beating the power-punching Benn in what was Benn's most memorable clash to date.
In the meantime his son, 28-year-old William Wedgwood Benn, had also been elected to Parliament, winning Benn's former seat at St George in 1906.
Benn's and been
Benn's children have been active in politics ; his first son Stephen was an elected Member of the Inner London Education Authority from 1986 to 1990.
Benn's and created
Unfortunately, according to Mr Benn's Little Book of Life, very little of McKee's original artwork created for the television episodes exists today, as a majority of it was thrown into a rubbish skip in the 1970s.
In 2004 he created his own aptly named series, Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music on Radio 4, featuring Robin Ince and Alfie Joey ; this has now run to three series.
Benn's and when
In 1981, when still Labour's Education spokesman, Kinnock was alleged to have effectively scuppered Tony Benn's attempt to replace Denis Healey as Labour's deputy leader by first supporting the candidacy of the more traditionalist Tribunite John Silkin and then urging Silkin supporters to abstain on the second, run-off, ballot.
Benn's and Labour
Benn's granddaughter Emily Benn failed to win East Worthing and Shoreham in 2010, becoming the Labour Party's youngest-ever candidate in the process.
Benn's philosophy consisted of a form of syndicalism, economic planning, greater democracy in the structures of the Labour Party and observance of Party conference decisions by the Party leadership ; he was vilified in the right-wing press, and his enemies implied that a Benn-led Labour Government would implement a type of Eastern European socialism.
The contest was a battle for the soul of the Labour Party and debated over the summer of 1981 ending with Healey winning by 50. 4 % to Benn's 49. 6 % on 27 September 1981.
She supported John Prescott in the Labour deputy-leadership election in 1988 ( against Eric Heffer and the incumbent Roy Hattersley ), leaving the Socialist Campaign Group, along with Margaret Beckett, as a result of Tony Benn's decision to challenge Neil Kinnock for the leadership.
The following members resigned their membership of the Campaign Group in 1988 in protest at Tony Benn's decision to challenge Neil Kinnock for the Labour leadership that year:
During the 1960s and 1970s it was the main forum for the left in the Parliamentary Labour Party, but it split over Tony Benn's bid for the deputy leadership of the party in 1981, with Benn's supporters forming the Socialist Campaign Group.
Originally on the hard left of the Labour Party, she was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group but resigned in 1988 in protest at Tony Benn's decision to challenge Neil Kinnock for the leadership.
In 1976 he voted for Tony Benn, the Energy Secretary, in the Labour leadership election and during 1978 – 79 served as Benn's Parliamentary Private Secretary, or PPS.
Benn's and political
Brian Redhead became Robinson's mentor, and later encouraged his career in political journalism, giving him a copy of Tony Benn's Arguments for Socialism for his birthday.
Benn's and ;
* Beyond Nihilism: Gottfried Benn's Postmodernist Poetics by Susan Ray ( Oxford ; New York: P. Lang, 2003, ISBN 3-03910-006-8 & ISBN 0-8204-6275-6 ( pbk.
Benn's and at
He and his second wife are buried in the cemetery at St. Luke's Church at Benn's Church, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, near Smithfield.
Benn's and elder
On Tony Benn's death the title will be passed on to the next in line, his elder son Stephen Benn.
Benn's and Michael
For the 1983 Benn's Bristol South East constituency was abolished by boundary changes, and he lost to Michael Cocks the battle to stand in the new seat of Bristol South.
However, within a few years of Benn's acceptance of the title Michael Benn was killed in action in World War II.
Benn's and was
Benn's campaign to renounce his hereditary peerage was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963.
Benn's mother, Margaret Wedgwood Benn ( née Holmes ) ( 1897 – 1991 ), was a dedicated theologian, feminist and the founder President of the Congregational Federation.
A significant factor in Benn's loss, however, was the abstention of 20 MPs from the left-wing Tribune Group, which split as a result.
Benn's and no
He was fully in support of the Conservatives on defence issues, describing Tony Benn's approach to the Falklands war as a " prima facie case of treason and sedition " and strongly opposing the " no first use " pledge on nuclear weapons.
Benn's and peerage
He also supported Tony Benn's campaign to renounce his peerage, and opposed Britain's early attempts to join the European Economic Community.
Benn's and .
Benn's poetry offers an introverted nihilism: an existentialist philosophy which sees artistic expression as the only purposeful action.
* German Dreams and German Dreamers: Gottfried Benn's German Universe by Henry Grosshans ( Wyndham Hall Press, 1987, ISBN 1-55605-001-1 ( pbk.
* Gottfried Benn's Static Poetry: Aesthetic and Intellectual-Historical Interpretations by Mark William Roche ( University of North Carolina Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8078-8112-0.
In the 1977 edition, Benn's entry disappeared entirely.
Benn's autobiography, published in 2001, is called Dark Destroyer.
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Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.
The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes.
My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.
My father had none.
He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.
By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.
In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.
His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.
The lyricist's father was a lawyer who had branched out into real estate.
There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).
My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.
Edward Greville, born about 1565, had inherited Milcote on the execution of his father Lodowick for murder in 1589.
`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.
Scotty murmured, `` No, thanks '', so softly his father had to bend his gaunt height across the table and turn a round brown ear to him.
The infant, in white terry-cloth bathrobe, her face intense and purposeful, had essayed a few wobbly steps toward her father.
With a pardonable irony Shelley wrote to the father who had publicly disowned his daughter:
Suppose her father had changed his mind and had refused to let her leave??
Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.
A Mexican justice of the peace had issue a writ against Chavez for taking part in the `` murder '' of Manuel Gonzales so he and his father were anxious to be taken out of danger.
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