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v. t. e. James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG , OBE , PC , FRS , FSS (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 to 1976, Leader of the Opposition ...
May 20, 2024 · Harold Wilson (born March 11, 1916, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England—died May 24, 1995, London) was a Labour Party politician who was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and from 1974 to 1976. The son of an industrial chemist, Wilson was educated at the University of Oxford, where, as a fellow of University College (1938 ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Harold Wilson was married to his wife Mary for 55 years. At the end of his premiership Mr Wilson was often portrayed as running a divided government, paranoid about the security services and ...
Harold Wilson, the son of a chemist and teacher, was born in Yorkshire during the First World War. In 1924, aged 8, he visited 10 Downing Street, which would eventually become his home. He studied ...
Harold Wilson occupies a strange place in the pantheon of 20th–century prime ministers. Statistically he is one of the greats: he won four out of the five elections he contested; his eight years in Number 10 are beaten only by Churchill and Thatcher in the 20th century; he was the first politician since Gladstone to be Prime Minister four times, and the only post-war PM other than Churchill ...
Children. Robin, Giles. James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century. He was an MP from 1945 to 1983. He won more elections than any other 20th century Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (in 1964, 1966, February and October ...
Apr 27, 2019 · Harold Wilson served as prime minister for almost eight years, then a peacetime record. For 13 years he led the Labour Party, winning four general elections and losing one.In 1976 he gave up ...
May 23, 2015 · Getty Images. Harold Wilson died 20 years ago, on 24 May 1995. He would have died many years before that, writes novelist Isabel Wolff, had her family not saved him from drowning. As a child I ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Harold Wilson, full name James Harold Wilson, was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire on 11 March 1916. The son of an industrial chemist and schoolteacher, he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford before being drafted into the civil service following the outbreak of the Second World War. He was a keen academic in ...
Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills) Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. 1 July 1954 - 1 July 1956. Commons. The Rt Hon Sir Harold Wilson died on 23rd May 1995. He was most recently the Labour MP for Huyton, and left the Commons on 9 June 1983.
