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Francis Pym

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Francis Leslie Pym, Baron Pym, MC, PC (13 February 1922 – 7 March 2008) was a British politician. [1]

92 relations: Abergavenny, Angus Maude, BBC, Bedfordshire, Bob Mellish, Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency), Cambridgeshire by-election, 1961, Captain (British Army and Royal Marines), Cecil Parkinson, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Chief Whip, Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, Christopher Soames, Conservative Party (UK), Defence minister, Diocese of Mumbai of the Church of North India, Edward Heath, England, Eton College, Falklands War, Fred Mulley, Geoffrey Howe, Gerald Howard, Herefordshire County Council, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Humphrey Atkins, Ian Curteis, Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, Janet Young, Baroness Young, Jeremy Child, Jim Paice, John Biffen, John Davies (businessman), John Nott, John Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil, John Pym, Julian Wadham, Leader of the House of Commons, Leslie Pym, Life peer, List of elections in 1983, Lord President of the Council, Magdalene College, Cambridge, Major (United Kingdom), Margaret Thatcher, Member of parliament, Mentioned in dispatches, Merlyn Rees, Michael Jopling, ..., Military Cross, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Monmouthshire (historic), Norman Buchan, Norman St John-Stevas, Northcliffe Media, One-nation conservatism, Parliament of England, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, Paymaster General, Penpergwm, Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Peter Shore, Politician, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Question Time (TV series), Rhondda West (UK Parliament constituency), Routledge, Sandy, Bedfordshire, Secretary of State for Defence, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Shadow Foreign Secretary, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, South East Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency), Thatcherism, The Falklands Play, The Iron Lady (film), The Right Honourable, The Right Reverend, United Kingdom, United Kingdom general election, 1983, United Kingdom general election, 1987, University of Cambridge, Wales, Walter Pym, Wets and dries, Whip (politics), William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, World War II, 9th Queen's Royal Lancers. Expand index (42 more) »

Abergavenny

Abergavenny (Y Fenni, archaically Abergafenni meaning "Mouth of the River Gavenny") is a market town in Monmouthshire, Wales.

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Angus Maude

Angus Edmund Upton Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon, (8 September 1912 – 9 November 1993) was a British Conservative politician and cabinet minister from 1979 to 1981.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire (abbreviated Beds.) is a county in the East of England.

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Bob Mellish

Robert Joseph Mellish, Baron Mellish, PC (3 March 1913 – 9 May 1998) was a British politician.

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Cabinet of the United Kingdom

The Cabinet of the United Kingdom is the collective decision-making body of Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom, composed of the Prime Minister and 21 cabinet ministers, the most senior of the government ministers.

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Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Cambridgeshire is a former Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom.

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Cambridgeshire by-election, 1961

The Cambridgeshire by-election was held on 16 March 1961.

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Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

Captain (Capt) is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines and in both services it ranks above lieutenant and below major with a NATO ranking code of OF-2.

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Cecil Parkinson

Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, PC (1 September 1931 – 22 January 2016) was a British Conservative politician and cabinet minister.

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Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is a ministerial office in the Government of the United Kingdom that includes as part of its duties, the administration of the estates and rents of the Duchy of Lancaster.

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Chief Whip

The Chief Whip is a political office in some legislatures whose task is to administer the whipping system that tries to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires.

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Chief Whip of the Conservative Party

The Chief Whip of the Conservative Party is responsible for administering the whipping system in the party which ensures that members attend and vote in parliament when the party leadership requires a majority vote.

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Christopher Soames

Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, (12 October 1920 – 16 September 1987) was a British politician, a member of the Conservative Party and son-in-law of Winston Churchill.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Defence minister

The title Defence Minister, Minister for Defence, Minister of National Defense, Secretary of Defence, Secretary of State for Defense or some similar variation, is assigned to the person in a cabinet position in charge of a Ministry of Defence, which regulates the armed forces in sovereign states.

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Diocese of Mumbai of the Church of North India

The Diocese of Mumbai of the Church of North India is the Anglican diocese covering metropolitan Mumbai and the state of Maharashtra.

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Edward Heath

Sir Edward Richard George Heath (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Eton College

Eton College is an English independent boarding school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor.

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Falklands War

The Falklands War (Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, Malvinas War, South Atlantic Conflict, and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands, and its territorial dependency, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Fred Mulley

Frederick William Mulley, Baron Mulley, PC (3 July 1918 – 15 March 1995) was a British Labour politician, barrister-at-law and economist.

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Geoffrey Howe

Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, (20 December 1926 – 9 October 2015), known from 1970 to 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, was a British Conservative politician.

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Gerald Howard

Sir Stephen Gerald Howard (7 June 1896 – 25 June 1973) was a British farmer, barrister and judge who was an active National Liberal and later Conservative Party politician.

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Herefordshire County Council

Herefordshire County Council was the county council of Herefordshire from 1 April 1889 to 31 March 1974.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Humphrey Atkins

Humphrey Edward Gregory Atkins, Baron Colnbrook, (12 August 1922 – 4 October 1996) was a British politician and a member of the Conservative Party.

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Ian Curteis

Ian Bayley Curteis (born 1 May 1935) is a British dramatist and former television director.

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Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar

Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, (8 July 1926 – 21 September 2007) was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.

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Janet Young, Baroness Young

Janet Mary Young, Baroness Young, (23 October 1926 – 6 September 2002) was a British Conservative politician.

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Jeremy Child

Sir Coles John Jeremy Child, 3rd Baronet (born 20 September 1944) is an English actor.

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Jim Paice

Sir James Edward Thornton Paice, DL (born 24 April 1949) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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John Biffen

William John Biffen, Baron Biffen, PC, DL (3 November 1930 – 14 August 2007) was a Conservative member of the House of Lords, who previously spent 36 years in the House of Commons and served in Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.

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John Davies (businessman)

John Emerson Harding Harding-Davies, (8 January 1916 – 4 July 1979) was a successful British businessman who served as Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry during the 1960s.

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John Nott

Sir John William Frederic Nott (born 1 February 1932) is a former British Conservative Party politician prominent in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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John Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil

John Wynne William Peyton, Baron Peyton of Yeovil, (13 February 1919 – 22 November 2006) was a British politician.

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John Pym

John Pym (1584 – 8 December 1643) was an English parliamentarian, leader of the Long Parliament and a prominent critic of Kings James I and then Charles I. He was one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest by King Charles I in the House of Commons of England in 1642 sparked the Civil War.

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Julian Wadham

Julian Neil Rohan Wadham (born 7 August 1958) is an English actor of stage, film and television.

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Leader of the House of Commons

The Leader of the House of Commons is generally a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Commons.

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Leslie Pym

Leslie Ruthven Pym (24 May 1884 – 17 July 1945) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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Life peer

In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers.

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List of elections in 1983

The following elections occurred in the year 1983.

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Lord President of the Council

The Lord President of the Council is the fourth of the Great Officers of State of the United Kingdom, ranking below the Lord High Treasurer but above the Lord Privy Seal.

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Magdalene College, Cambridge

Magdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Major (United Kingdom)

Major (Maj) is a military rank which is used by both the British Army and Royal Marines.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Mentioned in dispatches

A member of the armed forces mentioned in dispatches (or despatches, MiD) is one whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which his or her gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy is described.

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Merlyn Rees

Merlyn Merlyn-Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees, PC (18 December 1920 – 5 January 2006), born Merlyn Rees, was a Welsh-born Labour party Member of Parliament from 1963 until 1992, who served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1974–76) and Home Secretary (1976–79).

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Michael Jopling

Thomas Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, PC, DL (born 10 December 1930) is a politician in the United Kingdom, and sits in the House of Lords as a member of the Conservative Party.

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Military Cross

The Military Cross (MC) is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the British Armed Forces, and used to be awarded to officers of other Commonwealth countries.

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Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a United Kingdom cabinet position, responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

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Monmouthshire (historic)

Monmouthshire, also known as the County of Monmouth (Sir Fynwy), is one of thirteen historic counties of Wales and a former administrative county.

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Norman Buchan

Norman Findlay Buchan (27 October 1922 – 23 November 1990) was a Labour Party politician, who was on the left-wing of the party, and represented the West Renfrewshire seat from 1964 until 1983 and the Paisley South seat from 1983; until his death in 1990.

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Norman St John-Stevas

Norman Panayea St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, (18 May 1929 – 2 March 2012) was a British politician, author, and barrister.

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Northcliffe Media

Northcliffe Media Ltd. (formerly Northcliffe Newspapers Group) was a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK and Central and Eastern Europe, owned by Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT).

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One-nation conservatism

One-nation conservatism (also known as one-nationism, or Tory democracy) is a form of British political conservatism advocating preservation of established institutions and traditional principles combined with political democracy, and a social and economic programme designed to benefit the common man.

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Parliament of England

The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England, existing from the early 13th century until 1707, when it became the Parliament of Great Britain after the political union of England and Scotland created the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury is a junior ministerial position in the British Government.

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Paymaster General

Her Majesty's Paymaster General or HM Paymaster General is a ministerial position in the United Kingdom.

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Penpergwm

Penpergwm is a village in south Wales, situated along the A40 road, 3.9 miles south-east of Abergavenny and 19 miles west of Monmouth.

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Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington

Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, (born 6 June 1919) is a British Conservative politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary between 1970 and 1974, Foreign Secretary between 1979 and 1982, chairman of General Electric between 1983 and 1984, and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988.

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Peter Shore

Peter David Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney, PC (20 May 1924 – 24 September 2001) was a British Labour politician and former Cabinet Minister, noted in part for his opposition to the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community.

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Politician

A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government.

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Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Question Time (TV series)

Question Time is a BBC topical debate television programme in the United Kingdom, based on the radio programme Any Questions? The show typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by members of an audience selected on the basis of its political views and demographic.

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Rhondda West (UK Parliament constituency)

Rhondda West was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Rhondda district of Wales.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Sandy, Bedfordshire

Sandy is a small market town and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England.

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Secretary of State for Defence

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Defence (Defence Secretary) is an official within Her Majesty's Government and head of the Ministry of Defence.

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Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, normally referred to as the Foreign Secretary, is a senior, high-ranking official within the Government of the United Kingdom and head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, informally known as the Northern Ireland Secretary, is the principal secretary of state in Her Majesty's Government with responsibilities for Northern Ireland.

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Shadow Foreign Secretary

In British politics, the shadow foreign secretary is a position within the opposition's shadow cabinet that deals mainly with issues surrounding the Foreign Office.

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Shadow Leader of the House of Commons

The Shadow Leader of the House of Commons is a member of the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet responsible for working with the Leader of the House in arranging Commons business and holding the Government to account in its overall management of the House.

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Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

The Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is a member of the British Shadow Cabinet responsible for the scrutiny of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and their department, the Northern Ireland Office.

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South East Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South East Cambridgeshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Lucy Frazer, a Conservative.

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Thatcherism

Thatcherism describes the conviction, economic, social and political style of the British Conservative Party politician Margaret Thatcher, who was leader of her party from 1975 to 1990.

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The Falklands Play

The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War.

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The Iron Lady (film)

The Iron Lady is a 2011 British-French biographical drama film based on the life and career of Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), a British stateswoman and politician who was the first ever female and longest-serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of the 20th century.

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The Right Honourable

The Right Honourable (The Rt Hon. or Rt Hon.) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and to certain collective bodies in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, India, some other Commonwealth realms, the Anglophone Caribbean, Mauritius, and occasionally elsewhere.

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The Right Reverend

The Right Reverend (abbreviations: The Rt Revd; The Rt Rev'd; The Rt Rev.) is a style applied to certain religious figures.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Kingdom general election, 1983

The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 June 1983.

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United Kingdom general election, 1987

The 1987 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 11 June 1987, to elect 650 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Walter Pym

Walter Ruthven Pym (22 June 1856 – 2 March 1908) was an English colonial bishop at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

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Wets and dries

During the 1980s, members of the Conservative Party in Britain who opposed some of the more hard-line policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were often referred to by their opponents as "wets".

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Whip (politics)

A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline in a legislature.

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William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, (28 June 1918 – 1 July 1999), often known as Willie Whitelaw, was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretary and de facto Deputy Prime Minister.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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9th Queen's Royal Lancers

The 9th Queen's Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1715.

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References

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