\"British Minister\" Iain Macleod Signed TLS Dated 1962 for Sale

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\"British Minister\" Iain Macleod Signed TLS Dated 1962 For Sale

Up for sale "British Minister" Iain Macleod Hand Signed TLS Dated 1962. Included in this offering is an official biography.

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Iain Norman Macleod (11 November 1913 –

20 July 1970) was a British Conservative Party politician

and government minister. A playboy and professional bridge player in his twenties, after war service Macleod

worked for the Conservative Research

Department before entering Parliament in 1950.

He was an outstanding orator and debater, and was soon appointed Minister of

Health, later serving as Minister of Labour. He served an important term

as Secretary of

State for the Colonies under Harold Macmillan in the early 1960s, overseeing the

independence of many African countries from British rule but earning the enmity

of Conservative right-wingers, and the soubriquet that he was "too clever

by half". Macleod was unhappy with the "emergence" of Sir Alec Douglas-Home as

party leader and Prime Minister in succession to Macmillan in 1963 (he claimed

to have supported Macmillan's deputy Rab Butler, although it is unclear exactly what his

recommendation had been). He refused to serve in Home's government, and whilst

serving as editor of The Spectator, alleged

that the succession had been stitched up by Macmillan and a "magic

circle" of Old Etonians. Macleod did not contest the first ever

Conservative Party leadership election in 1965, but endorsed the

eventual winner Edward Heath. When the Conservatives

returned to power in June 1970, he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in

Heath's government, but died suddenly only a month later.

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