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Tom Horabin

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Thomas Lewis Horabin (1896 – 26 April 1956) was a British Liberal Party politician who defected to the Labour Party. [1]

38 relations: Appeasement, Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, British Overseas Airways Corporation, Cardiff High School, Chief Whip of the Liberal Democrats, Clement Davies, Conservative Party (UK), Exeter (UK Parliament constituency), Folkestone, Francis Dyke Acland, Frank Byers, Harold Roper, High Court of Justice, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, John Maude, Labour Party (UK), Liberal Party (UK), Member of parliament, Merthyr Tydfil, National Government (1935–1937), Nazism, Neville Chamberlain, North Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency), North Cornwall by-election, 1939, Penguin Books, Percy Harris, Popular Front (UK), Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Stafford Cripps, The Times, United Kingdom, United Kingdom general election, 1945, United Kingdom general election, 1950, Whip (politics), Winston Churchill, World War I, Yugoslavia, 1947 BOAC Douglas C-47 crash.

Appeasement

Appeasement in an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.

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Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso

Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso, (22 October 1890 – 15 June 1970), known as Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt, between 1912 and 1952, and often as Archie Sinclair, was a British politician and leader of the Liberal Party.

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British Overseas Airways Corporation

British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1940 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd.

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Cardiff High School

Cardiff High School (Ysgol Uwchradd Caerdydd) is a comprehensive school in the Cyncoed area of Cardiff, Wales.

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Chief Whip of the Liberal Democrats

This is a list of people who have served as Chief Whip of the Liberal Democrats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom and of its predecessor parties.

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Clement Davies

Edward Clement Davies (19 February 1884 – 23 March 1962) was a Welsh politician and leader of the Liberal Party from 1945 to 1956.

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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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Exeter (UK Parliament constituency)

Exeter is a constituency composed of the cathedral city and county town of Devon represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.

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Folkestone

Folkestone is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England.

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Francis Dyke Acland

Sir Francis Dyke Acland, 14th Baronet, (7 March 1874 – 9 June 1939) was a British Liberal politician.

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Frank Byers

Charles Frank Byers, Baron Byers, (24 July 1915 – 6 February 1984) was a British Liberal Party politician.

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Harold Roper

Sir Harold Roper CBE MC (2 September 1891–20 August 1971) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

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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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John Maude

John Cyril Maude KC (3 April 1901 – 16 August 1986) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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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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Merthyr Tydfil

Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful) is a large town in Wales, with a population of about 63,546, situated approximately north of Cardiff.

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National Government (1935–1937)

The National Government of 1935–1937 was formed by Stanley Baldwin on his reappointment as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King George V, following the resignation of Ramsay MacDonald in June 1935.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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Neville Chamberlain

Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940.

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North Cornwall (UK Parliament constituency)

North Cornwall is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Scott Mann, a Conservative.

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North Cornwall by-election, 1939

The North Cornwall by-election, 1939 was a parliamentary by-election held on 13 July 1939 for the British House of Commons constituency of North Cornwall.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Percy Harris

Sir Percy Alfred Harris, 1st Baronet, PC (6 March 1876 – 28 June 1952) was a British Liberal Party politician.

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Popular Front (UK)

The Popular Front in the United Kingdom attempted an alliance between political parties and individuals of the left and centre-left in the late 1930s to come together to challenge the Nazi/fascist appeasement policies of the National Government led by Neville Chamberlain.

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Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders or 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793.

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Stafford Cripps

Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour politician of the first half of the twentieth century.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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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, 1945

The 1945 United Kingdom general election was held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, because of local wakes weeks.

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United Kingdom general election, 1950

The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first ever general election to be held after a full term of Labour government.

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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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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija/Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија; Pannonian Rusyn: Югославия, transcr. Juhoslavija)Jugosllavia; Jugoszlávia; Juhoslávia; Iugoslavia; Jugoslávie; Iugoslavia; Yugoslavya; Югославия, transcr. Jugoslavija.

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1947 BOAC Douglas C-47 crash

The 1947 BOAC Douglas C-47 Crash occurred on 11 January 1947 when Douglas C-47A G-AGJX of British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) crashed into a hill at Stowting, Kent, in southeast England, killing five people outright, with a further three dying from injuries received.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Horabin

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