The Rt Hon Lord Healey, CH, MBE, PC's Biography
- Forename(s)
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Denis Winston Healey
- Sex
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Male
- Decorations
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CH (1979), MBE (1945), PC (1964)
- Date of Birth
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30/8/1917
- Foretitle(s)
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Baron (Life Peer UK 1992), of Riddlesden in the County of West Yorkshire;
- Surname
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HEALEY
- Style
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The Rt Hon Lord Healey, CH, MBE, PC
The Rt Hon Lord Healey, CH, MBE, PC's Professional Career
- Career
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MP (Lab): Leeds SE 1952-55, Leeds E 1955-92; sec Int Dept Lab Pty 1946-52, memb shadow cabinet PLP 1959, sec of state for def 1964-70, oppn spokesman on foreign and Cwlth affrs 1971, shadow chllr 1972-74, chllr of the exchequer 1974-79, dep ldr Lab Pty 1981-83, shadow foreign sec 1981-87; memb Exec Fabian Soc 1954-61; pres Birkbeck Coll 1993; Freeman City of Leeds 1991; hon fell Balliol Coll Oxford 1980, Hon DLitt Univ of Bradford 1983, Hon LLD Univ of Sussex 1989; FRSL; Grand Cross Order of Merit (Germany) 1979
The Rt Hon Lord Healey, CH, MBE, PC's Publications
- Books and Publications
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The Curtain Falls (1951), New Fabian Essays (1952), Neutralism (1955), Fabian International Essays (1956), A Neutral Belt in Europe (1958), NATO and American Security (1959), The Race Against the H Bomb (1960), Labour Britain and the World (1963), Healey's Eye (photographs, 1980), Labour and a World Society (1985), Beyond Nuclear Deterrence (1986), The Time of My Life (autobiography, 1989), When Shrimps Learn to Whistle (1990), My Secret Planet (1992), Denis Healey's Yorkshire Dales (1995), Healey's World (2002)
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