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Thorneycroft pointed out that the first five tests had all been failures and this was the reason for the US's concerns, but Air Commodore Arthur Vere Harvey quickly pointed out that the Polaris had suffered 13 failures in its development, and that was what was being offered as a potential alternative.
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The concept was first used in bolt action rifles such as the Thorneycroft carbine of 1901, although the increased distance from hand grip to bolt handle meant the decreased length had to be weighed against the increased time required to fire.
After his first marriage and divorce, he remarried to Carla, Contessa Roberti ( later known as Lady Thorneycroft, DBE ) in 1949.
The first runner to Thorneycroft was shot dead before he could utter a word.
" Luckily for Thorneycroft, the first of the British reinforcements arrived at this moment.
This time he brought the first orders from Warren since he elevated Thorneycroft to brigadier.
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Edith Henrietta Fowler, daughters of the first Viscount, were both authors.
Thorneycroft and had
Ted Heath, who became leader of the party in 1965, had been Chief Whip when Thorneycroft resigned in 1958 and had seen the resignation as a betrayal.
Astonishing as it may seem, he had sent no direct instructions to Thorneycroft since the heliogram appointing him a general at midday.
He had left it to Coke to reassure Thorneycroft, although ( by another astonishing blunder ) Warren had never actually told Coke that he had put Thorneycroft in charge.
Then, to compound all these blunders, at 9: 00 pm Warren had ordered Coke to return to the HQ for consultation, leaving Thorneycroft alone among the horrors on the summit.
Thorneycroft and was
But in January 1958 he resigned, along with the Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft and his Treasury colleague Nigel Birch, in protest at government plans for increased expenditure ; he was a staunch advocate of disinflation, or, in modern terms, a monetarist, and a believer in market forces.
Notable MPs for the area have included the industrialist Crawshay Bailey from 1852 to 1868 ; Peter Thorneycroft, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1957 – 58 and Chairman of the Conservative Party 1975 – 81, who was the town's MP from 1945 to 1966 ; and John Stradling Thomas, MP from 1970 to 1991.
Their advice was rejected and in January 1958 the three Treasury ministers Peter Thorneycroft, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Birch, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, and Enoch Powell, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, resigned.
The closure of Harringay Arena in 1954 was the last straw for Atholl Oakley, and Joint Promotions were the only major player left to benefit when Chancellor Peter Thorneycroft abolished the entertainment tax in the 1957 budget.
George Edward Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft CH, PC ( 26 July 1909 – 4 June 1994 ), was a British Conservative Party politician.
Thorneycroft was educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
His opposition to the Anglo-American loan in the Commons earned him a reputation as a parliamentary debater, and when the Conservatives returned to power after the general election of 1951 Thorneycroft was named President of the Board of Trade.
Thorneycroft was a strong supporter of Margaret Thatcher's monetarist policies, and she made him Chairman of the Conservative Party in 1975.
He is a descendent of the Victorian Colonel Thomas Thorneycroft a Wolverhampton industrialist, landowner and well known Conservative who was asked to stand for election by Benjamin Disraeli.
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Thorneycroft was selected to lead the initial assault.
( Thorneycroft was one of six " special service " officers, among whom were also Robert Baden-Powell and Herbert Plumer, despatched to South Africa shortly before the war to recruit local irregular corps.
The Middlesex Regiment and the Imperial Light Infantry, under Colonel Hill, who was senior to Thorneycroft in the Army List and who also believed he was overall commander on the Kop, held the British right for two and a half hours until a second crisis occurred when they too began to give way.
Unknown to Thorneycroft, the battle was as good as won.
It was his failure to tell Thorneycroft of his plans to do so.
* ( I ) was an Thorneycroft S class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy as from 1919 until her transfer to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1928.
In 2001, Merlin was acquired by VT Group plc ( known as Vosper Thorneycroft until 2002 ) and renamed VT Merlin Communications, then just VT Communications.
Lord Kilmuir was notably replaced as Lord Chancellor by Lord Dilhorne, the emerging Reginald Maudling replaced Selwyn Lloyd as Chancellor while Peter Thorneycroft returned to the cabinet as Minister of Defence.
Thorneycroft and for
The town has several care homes for the elderly, the biggest being Thorneycroft on the edges of the town run by the CIC company.
* Publisher's blurb for the Crooks biography of Thorneycroft
At 14: 30, Thorneycroft sent Warren a plea for reinforcements and water.
Peter Thorneycroft became Chancellor of the Exchequer, but caused embarrassment for Macmillan when he resigned only a year later.
* Peter Thorneycroft: Secretary of State for Defence
Thorneycroft and its
Throughout the late 1940s Thorneycroft worked assiduously to refurbish the Conservative Party after its disastrous defeat in the 1945 general election.
Tettenhall has its own private school Tettenhall College which is based in " Tettenhall Towers " the former home of the Thorneycroft family.
Thorneycroft and development
Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, the Minister of Aviation, in 1961 thought about a joint European project, the main intention being not to waste the ( advanced ) development of the rocket, and not to leave space exploration to the Americans and Russians.
Thorneycroft and being
* Two portraits of Peter Thorneycroft at the National Portrait Gallery ( London ) | National Portrait Gallery, one being a photograph by Cecil Beaton
Thorneycroft and .
* 1909 – Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, English politician ( d. 1994 )
* January 1958 – Derick Heathcoat Amory succeeds Peter Thorneycroft as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Fowler married Ellen Thorneycroft in 1857.
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and the Hon.
These discussions were reported in the House of Commons by the Minister of Defence, Peter Thorneycroft, leading to a storm of protest.
Along with other members of the Tory Reform Committee, Thorneycroft pressed his party to support the Beveridge Report.
Thorneycroft returned to the Cabinet in 1960 and held a number of posts in government and then in opposition under Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home.
Thorneycroft lost his seat at the 1966 general election and received a life peerage, taking a seat in the House of Lords as Baron Thorneycroft, of Dunston in the County of Stafford.
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