Benn then went on a winning streak of six fights leading up to another world title challenge.

McClellan dropped Benn, who went out of the ring in round one.

Following the Benn fight, Eubank went on to defeat Graciano Rocchigiani of Germany, the undefeated former IBF super middleweight title holder.

Benn was increasingly marginalised as the Parliament went on, but Morrell worked to link him with a network of activists outside Parliament.

After the Choir disbanded, Benn went to teach Latin and French at Richard Ishmael ’ s Secondary School, where he organized a school choir which put on a concert at the Georgetown City Hall.

The shortlist for the Labour candidacy included the Chair of Leeds Central Constituency Labour Party, Maggie Giles-Hill, and Shahid Malik, but the selection went to Hilary Benn who had been Special Adviser to David Blunkett, then Secretary of State for Education and Employment.

Heffer had a brief flirtation with the hard left in his teenage years, but had abandoned his views by the time he went to university, although he admits he still has a lingering affection for several past figures of the left, such as Tony Benn.

Although Anderson went at a run a ball in reply, conceding 58 from 9. 4 overs, he took three wickets including the last of the match ( that of Sulieman Benn ) as the West Indies fell 58 runs short, sealing a 2 – 0 victory for England in both the test and ODI series.

His campaign ( supported by Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Hilary Benn ) against the incumbent Conservatives received widespread praise, but was not without its controversies ; Vobe went public after submitting a Freedom of Information request which revealed that the council had spent £ 5, 000 on a reception and buffet for elected councillors following the installation of the town's Mayor the previous year.

Stansgate died at Westminster, London, in November 1960, aged 83, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his second son, Tony Benn, who in 1963 succeeded in getting the law changed to allow him to disclaim the peerage.

Benn wrote his Junior and Senior Cambridge Examinations at the Central High School.

He was educated in Cliftonville, Thanet, then briefly at Clifton College, where he first met Clifford Henry Benn Kitchin, and at Harrow School.

Foot presented himself as a compromise candidate capable, unlike Healey, of uniting the party, which at the time was riven by the grassroots left-wing insurgency centred around Tony Benn.

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

* Gottfried Benn at NNDB

Mr Benn lives in London at 52 Festive Road ; David McKee used to live " next door " at 54 Festing Road, where current residents have come together to install an engraved paving slab in his honor.

Benn met Caroline Middleton DeCamp ( born 13 October 1926, Cincinnati, Ohio ) over tea at Worcester College in 1949 and nine days later he proposed to her on a park bench in the city.

An election court found that the voters were fully aware that Benn was disqualified, and declared the seat won by the Conservative runner-up, Malcolm St Clair, who was at the time also the heir presumptive to a peerage.

Benn was the first peer to renounce his title, at 6. 22 pm that day.

In the Labour Government of 1974 Benn was Secretary of State for Industry, where he set up worker cooperatives in struggling industries, the best known being at Meriden, which kept Triumph Motorcycles in production until 1983.

Benn was overwhelmingly popular with Labour activists: a survey of delegates at the Labour Party Conference in 1978 found that by large margins they supported Benn for the leadership and many Bennite policies.

Benn speaking at the Glastonbury Festival in 2008

Benn did not stand at the 2001 general election ; as he explained it, he was " leaving parliament in order to spend more time on politics ".

* Miss Kenton – housekeeper at Darlington Hall, afterwards married as Mrs Benn

At 22-0 ( 22 KOs ), Benn defended his Commonwealth title against Michael Watson in a heavily hyped bout in May 1989 at Finsbury Park, London.

After a controversial dispute at ringside over the official result after Galvano was unable to continue due to a severe cut, Benn was declared the winner and won the title by a fourth-round TKO.

Nigel Benn himself has also helped to raise funds for McClellan's treatment, and the two men would meet again for the first time since their bout at a fundraiser held in London on February 24, 2007.

St Clair, fulfilling a promise he had made at the time of his seating, then accepted the office of Steward of the Manor of Northstead, thereby disqualifying himself from the House ( outright resignation is prohibited ), and Benn was then re-elected at the ensuing by-election.

She worked for then-Labour MP Tony Benn in London and American writer Alvin Toffler in New York, moving to the United States with her then-boyfriend and studying for a PhD in political science at the University of Iowa on the effects of the Swiss system of referenda.

Fox describes Tony Benn as " one of my heroes ", and says that it was after attending a talk given by Benn at Glasgow University that he was inspired to get involved in politics.

In 1973, whilst at university, he married fellow student Rosalind Retey, who died of cancer at age 26 in 1979 ; Benn subsequently married Sally Christina Clark in 1982.

Politician Tony Benn records in his diary ( 17 February 1981 ) that a journalist from the New Statesman, Duncan Campbell, told him that he had received information from an intelligence agent two years previously that Neave had planned to have Benn assassinated if a Labour Government was elected, James Callaghan resigned and there was a possibility that Benn might be elected Party Leader in his place.

London: New Mermaids, Ernest Benn.

* Sa ′ udi Arabia ( London: Benn ) 1955, New impression: Librairie du Liban, Beirut 1968

Benn strongly resembles his father, Tony Benn, in his speaking style and delivery, but is a political centrist and New Labour loyalist.

When the colonial constitution was suspended in 1953, Benn was detained and put under restriction orders in New Amsterdam, where he had gone to assess Party activity.

In 1995 Mitch Benn won the Best New Comedian competition at the Glastonbury Festival, and has played there every year since.

* November 22 – Tony Benn is elected as Treasurer of the Oxford Union.

* Selected Poems ( Clarendon German series ) by Gottfried Benn ( Oxford U. P., 1970, ISBN 0-19-832451-0 )

Notable names Crosland taught at Oxford were Tony Benn, Norris McWhirter and Ross McWhirter.

During World War II, Benn was posted to garrisons in eastern Germany where he wrote poems and essays.

In the 1964 Government of Harold Wilson, Benn was Postmaster General, where he oversaw the opening of the Post Office Tower, then the UK's tallest building, and the creations of the Post Bus service and Girobank.

Benn was also in the British Army, where he served in The Troubles for 18 months.

Benn has since developed a strong faith and now lives with his family on the Spanish island of Mallorca, where he is a born again Christian.

Benn was born in Manchester, to a middle-class family, the eldest son of Revd Julius Benn ( c. 1826-1883 ) but his parents moved the family to east London the following year, where they opened an institute for homeless boys.

He was elected MP for Bristol East at the 1983 General Election, where he defeated Tony Benn.

The constituency was created for the 1983 general election, partly from the Bristol South East constituency, where Tony Benn had been MP for much of the previous 32 years.

Mr Benn, a man wearing a black suit and bowler hat, leaves his house at 52 Festive Road and visits a fancy-dress costume shop where he is invited by the moustachioed, fez-wearing shopkeeper to try on a particular outfit.

Richard Corbett lives in Saltaire, Yorkshire, a village which enjoys UNESCO World Heritage status ( which Corbett helped campaign for ) He had his constituency office in Leeds, where he shared premises with Hilary Benn MP.

One evening, during his teaching career, Benn attended a public meeting at Norton and John Streets, where he listened to Dr. Cheddi Jagan criticise the state of the bauxite industry and the colony of Guyana.

They first settled in Baden-Baden where Döblin worked for the French military government as official representative for the office of public education ; he was tasked with approving manuscripts for publication, and vehemently opposed the approval of any texts by authors who had sympathized with National Socialism, such as Ernst Jünger or Gottfried Benn.

In 2005 he started a series for BBC7 called The Mitch Benn Music Show where he plays records of comic songs and invites musical comedians into the studio to perform.

Together with his wife, Benn runs a Twitter account called " Things Greta Says ", where they post any amusing quotes said by their five-year-old daughter Greta.