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Occupation. Politician, lawyer. Anthony Paul Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, QC (néRaab; 3 July 1936 – 8 August 2020) was a British barrister and member of the House of Lords. [ 1 ] He was at different times a member of the Labour Party, Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Democrats. [ 2 ] Lester was best known for his influence on ...
Anthony Kevin Baron (born 29 December 1992) is a professional footballer who plays as a left-back and a centre-back for Swiss Super League club Servette. Born in Metropolitan France, he plays for the Guadeloupe national team.
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Michael Anthony Ashcroft was born in Chichester, West Sussex. His father Eric was a British colonial civil servant; Ashcroft spent some of his early years in British Honduras (now Belize) and Malawi.[citation needed] He was educated at Norwich School, Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, and Mid-Essex Technical College (now Anglia Ruskin University)...
After a period in Belize after completing his education, Ashcroft returned to hitch hikearound Europe, and then for a short period of time became the manager of a rock and roll band. In 1967, Ashcroft joined Carreras Tobacco as a management trainee. He left Carreras in 1969, joining Pritchard Services Group, a cleaning and business services company...
In April 1972, Ashcroft married Wendy Mahoney. They had two sons and one daughter; the marriage was dissolved in 1984. His second marriage in 1986 was to Susan Anstey. The couple have homes in London, Maidenhead in Berkshire, and Belize.[citation needed] Ashcroft owns a Dassault Falcon 7X, registration VP-BZE, via his Bermudian registered company, ...
Conservative Party
In the UK, he was a major donor to and Treasurer of the Conservative Party from 1998 to 2001, under William Hague. His tenure was marked by a number of controversies: he was seen to pay little UK income tax because of his domicile in Belize, and he was at the centre of a debate about openness and accountability of political funding. Unsubstantiated speculation about his business affairs was concluded when he pursued a libel action against The Times. This was settled on 9 December 1999, when T...
Belize
Ashcroft allegedly gave the People's United Party in Belize $1m when it was in opposition.During its period in power, it introduced laws that are claimed by opponents and media commentators to be financially advantageous to Ashcroft.
Australia
Ashcroft has become a significant figure in Australian politics having been identified as the single largest individual donor to any Australian political party during the 2004–05 financial year. The Australian Electoral Commission reported in February 2006 that Ashcroft (who gave his address as "House of Lords, Westminster, London") had donated $1 million to the Liberal Party in September 2004, shortly before the 2004 federal election. It was, at the time, the biggest single private donation...
In 2013, Ashcroft stated that he has given tens of millions of pounds to good causes over the years. In May 2013, he pledged to donate more than half of his money to good causes, and became a signatory of The Giving Pledge.
Ashcroft collects Victoria Crosses which are awarded for valour and devotion to duty to members of various armed forces. His collection is by far the largest in the world spanning 128 years from acts of valour at the start of the Crimean War in 1854 to an act of courage during the Falklands War in 1982. He wrote Victoria Cross Heroesto mark the 150...
Tax status
Ashcroft has been described as a "tax exile", and for a number of years lived in the UK enjoying the controversial non-domiciled tax status. At the time of his ennoblement the Cabinet Office said that Ashcroft would be taking up permanent residence in the UK for tax purposes, an undertaking described in the newspapers as a "pledge" and a "gentleman's agreement", but he did not in fact claim to do so until a decade later, when a change in the law would have required him to quit the Lords, had...
U.S. DEA leak
In 1999, Ashcroft was first nominated by Conservative Party leader and friend William Hague for the Lords. During their investigation, the House of Lords Appointments Commission was fed via the media with certain information, which originated from Jonathan Randel, an intelligence research specialist for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.[citation needed] Randel leaked Ashcroft's name as being in the DEA's files, although it later emerged that Ashcroft was one of five million p...
Business style
In 2003, Ashcroft was criticised by the High Court judge, Mr Justice Peter Smith in Rock (Nominees) Ltd v RCO (Holdings) Plc.Smith condemned Ashcroft's tactics in relation to the takeover of cleaning company RCO by the Danish firm ISS. Smith said, Smith went on to say that Ashcroft "was not content with a small £250,000 profit earned in a matter of weeks. He now seeks to extract millions."Ashcroft responded by telling journalists that "being accused of blackmail by a man who states that specu...
In the 2000 Birthday Honours, on the advice of the Belizean government, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George(KCMG) "for public service to the community and country" of Belize. In 1999, he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of the University by Anglia Ruskin University; he would be named chancellor of the u...
Dirty politics Dirty times: My fight with Wapping and New Labour, 2005, Biteback, ISBN 9781849540094Smell the Coffee: A Wakeup Call for the Conservative Party, 2005, Politico's, ISBN 9781904734109Victoria Cross Heroes, 2007, Headline, ISBN 9780755316335. Foreword by the Prince of Wales.Special Forces Heroes: Extraordinary True Stories of Daring and Valour, 2009, Headline, ISBN 9780755318087Profile at the Parliament of the United KingdomHe was survived by his wife, actress Susan Skipper. The couple married in 1982, having met during the filming of the successful Raffles television series, and later appeared together again in a television film of Ivor Novello 's show The Dancing Years (1979).
Relief of Taunton. Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury PC, FRS (22 July 1621 – 21 January 1683), was an English statesman and peer. He held senior political office under both the Commonwealth of England and Charles II, serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1661 to 1672 and Lord Chancellor from 1672 to 1673.
After his divorce from Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon married Lucy Mary Lindsay-Hogg (née Davies), the former wife of Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 5th Baronet, in December 1978. In 1979, they had a daughter, Lady Frances Armstrong-Jones, who became a designer and board member of the Snowdon Trust. [ 67 ]
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Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, PC (born Andreas Adonis; 22 February 1963) [3] is a British Labour Party politician and journalist who served in HM Government for five years in the Blair ministry and the Brown ministry.
