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 ".

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.

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.

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.

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 granddaughter Emily Benn failed to win East Worthing and Shoreham in 2010, becoming the Labour Party's youngest-ever candidate in the process.

However, within a few years of Benn's acceptance of the title Michael Benn was killed in action in World War II.

On Tony Benn's death the title will be passed on to the next in line, his elder son Stephen Benn.

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 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.

After knocking Massimiliano Bocchini in Italy, Nardiello against challenged for a world title, but wasa stopped in the eighth round of a London bout against WBC Super Middleweight champion Nigel Benn, in Benn's first bout since his bout with Gerald McClellan who sustained critical injuries.

As well as touring and releasing material, the band support Mitch Benn for some of his comedy programmes, such as the Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music.

When Benn's wife Caroline Benn died of cancer in November 2000, Heffer wrote a tribute to Benn in the Daily Mail.

In 1981 the LCC supported the campaign of Tony Benn against Denis Healey for the deputy leadership of the party, but many were deeply unhappy with Benn's campaign and approach and the LCC began to evolve into a body aiming to rescue the party from the mess it found itself in as the SDP split and Benn's campaign imprinted an image of extremism in the minds of the voters.

* 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 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 campaign to renounce his hereditary peerage was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

In the 1977 edition, Benn's entry disappeared entirely.

Benn's autobiography, published in 2001, is called Dark Destroyer.

His mother, Margaret Morrison Carnegie, earned money by binding shoes.

His mother, Margaret Mary " Peggy " ( née Burns ) worked as a cinema usherette, while his father, Haywood Stenton " John " Jones was a promotions officer for Barnardo's.

One of Mitchell's biographers, Darden Asbury Pyron, stated that Margaret Mitchell had " an intense relationship " with her mother, who was Roman Catholic.

Modern scholarship has disproved Margaret Murray's theory, however various horned gods and mother goddesses were indeed worshipped in the British Isles during the ancient and early Medieval periods.

Margaret sat on a platform wearing a Votes-for-Women banner blowing kisses to the gentlemen while her mother gave an impassioned speech.

Her mother chose Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts for Margaret because she considered it to be the best women's college in the United States.

At the time of the death of his father and older brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland at the Battle of Wakefield, Richard, who was eight years old, was sent by his mother, the Duchess of York to the Low Countries, beyond the reach of Henry VI's vengeful Queen, Margaret of Anjou.

Despite his apparent affiliation with Richard, Baron Stanley's wife, Lady Margaret Beaufort, was Henry Tudor's mother.

He named the character after his mother Margaret Groening.

Marge was named after Groening's mother Margaret " Marge " Groening, who has said she bears little similarity to the character, stating, " It's really weird to have people think you're a cartoon.

Glen Morgan and James Wong's early influence on The X-Files mythology led to their introduction of popular secondary characters who would continue for years in episodes written by others, such as the Scully family: Dana's father, William ( Don S. Davis ); her mother, Margaret ( Sheila Larken ); and her sister, Melissa ( Melinda McGraw ).

Edmund's son Henry Tudor, born in Pembroke, grew up in south Wales and in exile in Brittany, while his mother Lady Margaret remained in England and remarried, quietly advancing the cause of her son in a Kingdom now ruled by the rival House of York.

It was renamed Christ's College and received its present charter in 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII.

His mother, Maria Antonia, had been Leopold's daughter by his first marriage, to Philip IV of Spain's younger daughter Margaret Theresa.

* February – Olaf II of Denmark becomes Olaf IV of Norway, with his mother Margaret as regent.

The Yorks were perceived by the public as an ideal family: father, mother and children, but unfounded rumours that Margaret was deaf and dumb were not completely dispelled until Margaret's first main public appearance at her uncle Prince George's wedding in 1934.

Margaret was resentful about her limited education, especially in later years, aiming criticism at her mother.

With her widowed mother, Margaret moved out of Buckingham Palace and into Clarence House, while her sister and her family moved out of Clarence House and into Buckingham Palace.

* June 29 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England ( b. 1443 )

In 1457, Albert arranged a marriage between his eldest son John, and Margaret, daughter of William III, Landgrave of Thuringia, who inherited the claims upon Hungary and Bohemia of her mother, a granddaughter of Emperor Sigismund.

* May 23 – A number of supporters of William V, Count of Holland, in his power struggle with his mother Margaret I, Countess of Holland, found the Cod league.

The vacant thrones come under the regency of his mother Margaret I of Denmark, who will soon become Queen in her own right.

* May 31 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England ( d. 1509 )

Their only child, Margaret ( 1786 – 1858 ), was the mother of Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne ( 1823 – 1911 ) professor of mineralogy at Oxford ( 1856 – 95 ).

Her mother, Margaret or Maeve, was also a Ní Mháille.