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Up for sale a RARE! "2nd Baronet" Keith Joseph Hand Written 2 Page Letter Dated 1992.

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Keith

Sinjohn Joseph, Baron Joseph, Bt, CH, PC, QC (17 January 1918 – 10 December 1994) known as Sir

Keith Joseph, 2nd Baronet, for most of his political life, was A member of the Conservative Party, he

served in the Cabinet under four prime ministers: Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher. He was a key influence in the creation of

what came to be known as "Thatcherism". Keith

Joseph was the first to introduce the concept of the social market economy into

Britain, an economic and social system inspired by Christian democracy. He also co-founded the Centre for Policy Studies writing

its first publication: Why Britain needs a Social Market Economy. Joseph

was born in Westminster, London, to a wealthy and influential family, the son of Edna

Cicely (Phillips) and Samuel Joseph.

His father headed the vast family construction and and was Lord Mayor of London in

1942–3. At the end of his term he was created a baronet. Joseph's family was Jewish. On the death of his

father on 4 October 1944, 26-year-old Keith inherited the baronetcy. Joseph was educated at Lockers Park School in Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire, followed by Harrow School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied Jurisprudence,

obtaining first class honours. He was elected a Prize Fellow of All Souls College in 1946. During World War II, Joseph served as a captain in the Royal Artillery, and suffered a minor wound during German

shelling of his company's headquarters in Italy, as well as being mentioned in despatches.

After the end of the war, he was called to the Bar (Middle Temple). Following his father, he was elected as

an Alderman of the City of London. He was a Director of

Bovis, becoming chairman in 1958, and became an underwriter at Lloyd's of London. In

1945, Joseph joined the leadership of the Post-War Orphans’ Committee of the

Central British Fund for German Jewry (now World Jewish Relief). He

failed to be elected to the marginal seat of Barons Court in

West London by 125 votes in the 1955

election. He was elected to parliament in a by-election for Leeds North East in

February 1956. He was swiftly appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary.