The Wrens nicknamed the machine the " Heath Robinson ", after the cartoonist of the same name who drew humorous drawings of absurd mechanical devices.

** Following a hung parliament in the UK general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.

In 1965, he stood in the first-ever party leadership election but came a distant third to Edward Heath, who appointed him Shadow Secretary of State for Defence.

The biggest argument Powell and Heath had during Powell's time in the Shadow Cabinet was over a dispute over the role of Black Rod, who would go to the Commons to summon them to the Lords to hear the Royal Assent of Bills.

He also denounced Heath for accusing his political opponents of lacking respect for Parliament whilst being " the first Prime Minister in three hundred years who entertained, let alone executed, the intention of depriving Parliament of its sole right to make the laws and impose the taxes of this country ".

When Heath called a leadership election at the end of 1974, Powell claimed they would have to find someone who was not a member of the Cabinet that " without a single resignation or public dissent, not merely swallowed but advocated every single reversal of election pledge or party principle ".

Sir Edward Richard George " Ted " Heath, KG, MBE, PC ( 9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005 ) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( 1970 – 74 ) and as Leader of the Conservative Party ( 1965 – 75 ).

In his final year Heath was President of Balliol College Junior Common Room, an office held in subsequent years by his near-contemporaries Denis Healey and Roy Jenkins, and as such was invited to support the Master of Balliol Alexander Lindsay, who stood as an anti-appeasement ' Independent Progressive ' candidate against the official Conservative candidate, Quintin Hogg, in the Oxford by-election, 1938.

After extensive negotiations, involving detailed agreements about the UK's agricultural trade with Commonwealth countries such as New Zealand, British entry was vetoed by the French President, Charles de Gaulle, at a press conference in January 1963-much to the disappointment of Heath, who was a firm supporter of European common market membership for the United Kingdom.

The following year, Heath – who was Shadow Chancellor at the time, and had recently won favourable publicity for leading the fight against Labour's Finance Bill – unexpectedly won the party's leadership contest, gaining 150 votes to Reginald Maudling's 133 and Enoch Powell's 15.

Neave deliberately understated Thatcher's support in order to attract wavering votes from MPs who were keen to see Heath replaced even though they did not necessarily want Thatcher to replace him.

Heath paid tribute to James Callaghan who died on 26 March 2005, saying that " James Callaghan was a major fixture in the political life of this country during his long and varied career.

In his will Heath, who had had no descendants, left only two legacies: £ 20, 000 to his brother's widow, and £ 2, 500 to his housekeeper.

) These panels were originally drawn by such comics artists as Jack Kirby and DC Comics artists Russ Heath, Tony Abruzzo, Irv Novick, and Jerry Grandenetti, who rarely received any credit.

The type specimen of Common Heath was collected in 1793 by French botanist Jacques Labillardière in Van Diemens Land ( now Tasmania ) during a voyage with Bruni D ' Entrecasteaux It was described by Labillardiere in 1805 who gave the species its current name Epacris impressa.

* Heath Ledger as William Thatcher, a squire who aspires to become a knight and jousting champion.

Ironically the team that came sixteenth in Accrington's last season were Newton Heath, playing their first season in the league, who were later to become Manchester United.

Among the people buried in the cathedral, the most famous is probably Sir Edward Heath, KG, MBE ( 1916 – 2005 ), who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001, and who lived in the Cathedral Close for the last twenty years of his life.

The elderly man and his wife who lived in Mill Lane, Chadwell Heath and toured the estate in a horse-drawn cart on Saturday mornings selling logs and firewood ( mostly tarred wood taken from the East End roads when they were replaced by tarmac ) saw their business collapse overnight.

* Neville Heath who was hanged in the prison in 1946 after having been convicted of murdering two women.

Thornton Heath formerly had a Non-League football club, Croydon Athletic F. C., who played at the Keith Tuckey Stadium ; but the club ceased to exist at the end of the 2010 / 11 season.

" He also said Johnny Bench ( who played for him in Cincinnati ) " will never throw a baseball as hard as Mike Heath " ( a catcher who played for him in Detroit ).

Balsall Heath initially had a reasonably affluent population, which can still be seen in the dilapidated grandeur of some of the larger houses.

In The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, a comic twist was added to rhyming slang by way of spurious and fabricated examples which a young man had laboriously to explain to his father ( e. g. ' dustbins ' meaning ' children ', as in ' dustbin lids ' = ' kids '; ' Teds ' being ' Ted Heath ' and thus ' teeth '; and even ' Chitty Chitty ' being ' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ', and thus ' rhyming slang '...).

Earlier in the 1970s, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath ( elected in 1970 ) had attempted to reduce trade union powers due to the rising level of strikes across the country.

Thirty years later, however, Heath would admit that his remarks on the " economic burden of immigration " had been " not without prescience.

Thirty years after the speech, Edward Heath admitted that Powell's remarks on the " economic burden of immigration " had been " not without prescience.

When Heath signed an accession treaty before Parliament had even debated the issue, the second reading of the Bill to put the Treaty into law was passed by just eight votes on second reading, and it became clear that the British people would have no further say in the matter, he declared hostility to his party's line.

Powell had his friend, Andrew Alexander, talk with Labour Party leader Harold Wilson's press secretary, Joe Haines, on Powell's timing of his speeches against Heath.

Powell's speeches and TV interviews throughout his political life displayed a suspicion towards " the Establishment " in general, and by the 1980s there was a regular expectation that he would make some sort of speech or act in a way designed to upset the government and ensure he would not be offered a life peerage ( and thus be transferred to the House of Lords ), which, some believe, had not any intention of accepting so long as Edward Heath sat in the Commons.

Captain William Heath with a naval fleet moved towards Chittagong but it was a failure and he had to retreat to Madras.

The successful trial of Odo de Bayeux at Penenden Heath less than a decade after the conquest was one example of the growing discontent at the Norman land-grab that had occurred in the years following the invasion.

In 1973, British Prime Minister Edward Heath bought a Steinway piano with the £ 450 he had won in the Charlemagne Prize for leading Britain into the European Economic Community.

Heath also attempted to curb union power with the Industrial Relations Act 1971, and had hoped to deregulate the economy and make a transfer from direct to indirect taxation.

Before the war Heath had won a scholarship to Gray's Inn and had begun making preparations for a career at the Bar, but after the war he instead passed top into the Civil Service.

Macmillan later appointed Heath Minister of Labour, a Cabinet Minister-as Chief Whip Heath had attended Cabinet but had not been formally a member-after winning the October 1959 election.

Heath stated that the Selsdon weekend only reaffirmed policies that had actually been evolving since he became leader of the Conservative Party.

Despite these measures, however, the Heath Government encouraged a significant increase in welfare spending, and Thatcher blocked Macleod's other posthumous Education policy: the abolition of the Open University, which had recently been founded by the preceding Labour Government.

Heath attempted to rein in the increasingly militant trade union movement, which had so far managed to stop attempts to curb their power by legal means.

His Labour predecessor as prime minister, Harold Wilson, had inherited an unemployment count of around 400, 000 at the time of his general election win of October 1964 but seen unemployment peak at 631, 000 during the spring of 1967, though it had fallen to 582, 000 by the time Heath seized power in June 1970.

Other film versions ( which are loose adaptations as opposed to straight translations from stage to screen ) include: the 1929 The Framing of the Shrew, directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom, and starring Edward Thompson and Evelyn Preer ; the 1933 You Made Me Love You, directed by Monty Banks, and starring Stanley Lupino and Thelma Todd ; the 1938 Second Best Bed, directed by Tom Walls, and starring Jane Baxter and Walls himself ; the 1942 Italian adaptation La bisbetica domata, directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, and starring Amedeo Nazzari and Lilia Silvi ; the 1943 Hungarian adaptation Makacs Kata ( Stubborn Kate ) directed by Emil Martonffy, and starring Katalin Karády and Pál Jávor ; another 1943 Hungarian adaptation, Makrancos hölgy ( Unruly Lady ), directed by Viktor Bánky, and starring Emmi Buttykay and Miklós Hajmássy ; the 1948 Mexican adaptation Cartas marcadas, directed by René Cardona, and starring Marga López and Pedro Infante ; the 1956 Spanish adaptation La fierecilla domada, directed by Antonio Román, and starring Carmen Sevilla and Alberto Closas ; the 1962 Egyptian adaptation Ah min hawaa, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Lobna Abdel Aziz and Rushdy Abaza ; the 1963 western McLintock !, directed by Andrew McLaglen, and starring John Wayne and Maureen O ' Hara ; the 1999 teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and starring Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford ( Katherina ) and Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona ( Petruchio ); the 2003 comedy Deliver Us from Eva, directed by Gary Hardwick, and starring Gabrielle Union and LL Cool J ; and the 2010 Bollywood film Isi Life Mein, directed by Vidhi Kasliwal, and starring Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar.

During the case, Hamilton said he saw himself as " the Mike Yarwood of the Federation of Young Conservatives ", and that he frequently did impressions of public figures such as Frankie Howerd, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Charles De Gaulle and Enoch Powell.

In his Memoirs, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling describes himself as Deputy Prime Minister under Heath from 1970 to his resignation in 1972 over the Poulson affair.

Douglas-Home shared their view that Labour would win the 1970 election, and that Heath might then have to resign, but he declined to commit himself.

Although Nick was initially leery of Heath and felt he had to test Heath's mettle, Heath would go on to prove himself worthy of even Nick's acceptance, and eventually Nick seemed to grow even closer to Heath than he was to Jarrod, perhaps in a sense due to Heath having more in common with him than Jarrod did.

As the siege of Boston began, Heath devoted himself to training the militia involved in the siege.

She struggled just enough to make her admirer more eager, so that if I had not been there, he would have been in danger of carrying his joke a little too far " ( p. 642, Heath ) This is just one of the many examples in which Byrd clearly distinguishes himself as the moral superior of his companions.

* Clement ( Clym ) Yeobright — A man of about thirty who gives up a business career in Paris to return to his native Egdon Heath to become a “ schoolmaster to the poor and ignorant ” ( Hardy himself gave up a successful career as a London architect and returned to his native Dorchester to become a writer ).

On the 4 October Charles himself reached Newark ( whither he had marched from Denbigh after revictualling Chester and suffering the defeat of Rowton Heath ).

They remained unbeaten and also beat Newton Heath, who became Man United in 1902, in the promotion test match, McLean, the club's penalty taker, bagged himself a very respectable 5 goals during the promotion campaign.

According to them, Heath was a powerful warrior who had no love for anything, including himself.

He then replaced the Brunshaw Road Stand with a new all-seater stand named after himself, which was opened in 1974 by then-prime minister Edward Heath.