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FIFTY KEY FIGURES IN

TWENTIETH-CENTURY

BRITISH POLITICS

This accessible guidebook provides a complete overview of the lives

and influence of fifty major figures in modern British political history.

Reflecting the changes within British society and politics over the past

century, the entries chart the development of key contemporary issues

such as women's rights, immigration and the emergence of New

Labour. Figures covered include:

¤ Tony Blair

¤ David Lloyd George

¤ Barbara Castle

¤ Emmeline Pankhurst

¤ Winston Churchill

¤ Enoch Powell

¤ John Maynard Keynes

¤ Margaret Thatcher

With cross-referenced entries and helpful suggestions for further

reading, this book is an essential guide for all those with an interest in

understanding the most prominent issues of modern British politics.

Keith Laybourn is Professor of History at the University of

Huddersfield.

ROUTLEDGE KEY GUIDES

FIFTY KEY FIGURES

IN TWENTIETH-

CENTURY BRITISH

POLITICS

Roulledge Key Guides are accessible, informative and lucid handbooks, which define and

discuss the central concepts, thinkers and debates along a broad range of academic disciplines.

All are written by noted experts in their respective subjects. Clear, concise exposition of

complex and stimulating issues and ideas make Rautledgf Key Guides the ultimate reference

resource for students, teachers, researchers and the interested lay person.

Fifty Key Classical Authors

Alison Sharrock and Rhiannon Ash

Fifty Key Contemporary Tliinkers

John Lechte

Fifty Key Figures in Twentieth-Century British Politics

Keith Laybourn

Fifty Keyjetvish Thinkers

Dan Cohn-Sherbok

Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment

Edited by Joy Palmer with David E. Cooper

and Peter Blaze Corcoran

Fifty Key Thinkers on History

Mamie Hughes-Warrington

Fifty Key Tliinkers in International Relations

Martin Griffiths

Fifty Major Economists

Steven Pressman

Fifty Major Philosophers

Diane Collinson

Fifty Major Thinkers on Education

Joy Palmer

Fifty Modern Tliinkers on Education Joy

Palmer

Key Concept! in Communication and Cultural Studies

(second edition}

Tim O'Sullivan.John Hartley, Danny Sounders,

Martin Montgomery and John Fiske

Key Concepts in Eastern Philosophy

Oliver Leaman

Key Concepts in Language and Ungiustia R,

L. Trask

Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Education

John Gingell and Christopher Winch

Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches Neville

Morley

Business: The Key Concepts Mark Vernon

Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (second edition)

Susan Hayward

Cultural Theory: The Key Cotttspts

Edited by Andrew Edgar and Peter Sedgwick

Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers Andrew Edgar

and Peter Sedgwick

Eastern Philosophy: Key Reading!. Oliver Lea man

International Relations: The Key Concepts Martin

Griffiths and Terry O'Callaghan

Popular Music: The Key Concepts Roy Shuker

Post-Celettial Studies: The Key Concepts

Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin

Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts

Nigel Rapport and Joanna Overing

Sport and Physical Education: Tiir Key Concepts

Timothy Chandler, Mike Cronin and Wray

Vamplew

Sport Psychology: The Key Concepts Ellis Cashmore

Television Studies: The Key Concepts

Neil Casey, Bernadette Casey, Justin Lewis,

Ben Calvert and Liam French

Fifty Contemporary Choreographers Edited by Martha

Bremser

Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers Edited by Yvonne

Tasker

Fifty Eastern Tliinkers

Diane Collinson, Kathryn Plant and

Robert Wilkinson

Keith Laybourn

London and New York

ALPHABETICAL LIST

OF CONTENTS

First published 2002

by Routledge 11 New

Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge 29 West 35th

Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & frauds Group

¨ 2002 Keith Laybourn

Typeset in Bembo by Taylor & Francis Books Ltd Printed and

bound in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall

reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic,

mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter

invented, including photocopying arid recording, or in any

information storage or retrieval system, without permission in

writing from the publishers,

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue

record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Daia A

catalog record for this book has been requested

Herbert Henry Asquith

Nancy Astor

Clement Attlee

Stanley Baldwin

Arthur James Balfour

Lord Beaverbrook

Aneurin Bevan

William Beveridge

Ernest Bevin

Tony Blair

Richard Austen Butler

James Callaghan

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Edward Carson

Barbara Castle

Joseph Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain

Sir Winston Churchill

Walter Citrine

Sir Stafford Cripps

Anthony Crosland

Hugh Dalton

Sir Anthony Eden

Michael Foot

Hugh Gaitskell

Edward Grey

Keir Hardie

Edward Heath

Arthur Henderson

Sir Samuel Hoare

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ISBN 0-415-22676-7 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-22677-5 (pbk)

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONTENTS

Sir Alec Douglas Home Sir

Keith Joseph John Maynard

Keynes Neil Kinnock

George Lansbury Andrew

Bonar Law David Lloyd

George James Ramsay

MacDonald Harold

Macmillan John Major

Herbert Morrison Oswald

Mosley Emmeline

Pankhurst Harry Pollitt

Enoch Powell Sir Herbert

Samuel Sir John Simon

Margaret Thatcher Ellen

Wilkinson Harold Wilson

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PREFACE

This book contains relatively brief essays (from 800 to 3,000 words) on

fifty of the political figures of the twentieth century whom I consider

have made a significant political impact, for good or ill. Undoubtedly,

other historians would have produced a different list Ï and would

possibly have included the likes of Tony Benn and Shirley Williams -

which may, from their point of view, have been as justified as final list

that I have produced. Indeed, my original listing of more than 70

politicians included both Benn and Williams. Yet the listing of any

historian would certainly have differed on the more marginal figures.

What is certain is that all lists would have included at least half of those

examined: for example, Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill and David

Lloyd George.

All the biographical sketches outline the career and political

importance of the particular figure being examined. They also indicate

the most relevant related biographies to read and list, in a bibliography,

the most useful books on the subject. There are no footnotes but the

sources of precise quotes are bracketed in the main text and often listed

in the bibliography.

Keith Laybourn

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