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Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH, PC (/ s æ n d z /; 24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987), was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a son-in-law of Winston Churchill and played a key role in promoting European unity after World War II
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Duncan Sandys was a British politician and statesman who exerted major influence on foreign and domestic policy during mid-20th-century Conservative administrations. The son of a member of Parliament, Sandys was first elected to Parliament as a Conservative in 1935. He became a close ally of his.
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May 1, 2022 · Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill.
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- January 24, 1908
- Marie Claire Sandys
- November 26, 1987
Nov 27, 1987 · Lord Duncan-Sandys, the longtime British politician and diplomat who negotiated the independence of nearly a dozen British colonies and territories in the 1960's, died yesterday at his home in...
Politician; Secretary of State for the Colonies In 1935 Duncan-Sandys was elected as a Conservative MP and married Diana Bailey, eldest daughter of Sir Winston Churchill. During World War II he saw active service until 1941 when he was involved in a serious car crash.
Minister of Defence 1957 - 1959. Minister of Aviation 1959 - 1960. Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations 1960 - 1964. Secretary of State for the Colonies 1962 - 1964. Titles in Lords. Baron Duncan-Sandys May 2, 1974 - November 26, 1987. Contributions. First recorded, on March 28, 1935 HIS MAJESTY'S SILVER JUBILEE. Commons.
Aug 5, 2019 · By the time Duncan Sandys (1962–64) was appointed Colonial Secretary, only a handful of difficult cases remained—Kenya, the Central African Federation, and Southern Arabia most prominently. An effective bureaucratic brawler and hatchet man, Sandys continued the government’s frenetic pace of decolonization, overseeing Kenya’s ...
