James Harold Wilson (1916 - 1990)
One of the youngest ever dons of the old Oxford University he showed little interest in politics (bar joining the Liberal Unionists club as a student). He gained a seat in Parliament in 1943 by-election he rose through the party and was Chancellor of the Exchequer when the civil war broke out.
In 1967 Wilson was of the delegation sent to Zürich by parliament out shinning almost every other delegate (with the notable exceptions of Sir Alex Douglass home).
In 1969 he joined the break Liberal fraction of the LU and headed the Liberal delegation to the British peace talks in 1969.
Wilson remained a Frontbencher in the new Republic till 1977, it was under Wilson that the rapid expansion of the space department took place.
Wilson’s biggest political failure was the negotiations with the federation of South African States (the former federation of Rhodesia, Angola, Mozambique, Belgium Congo and South African union) about African majority Rule on behalf of their former European “mother countries”
Wilson died at his home in Yorkshire in 1990
One of the youngest ever dons of the old Oxford University he showed little interest in politics (bar joining the Liberal Unionists club as a student). He gained a seat in Parliament in 1943 by-election he rose through the party and was Chancellor of the Exchequer when the civil war broke out.
In 1967 Wilson was of the delegation sent to Zürich by parliament out shinning almost every other delegate (with the notable exceptions of Sir Alex Douglass home).
In 1969 he joined the break Liberal fraction of the LU and headed the Liberal delegation to the British peace talks in 1969.
Wilson remained a Frontbencher in the new Republic till 1977, it was under Wilson that the rapid expansion of the space department took place.
Wilson’s biggest political failure was the negotiations with the federation of South African States (the former federation of Rhodesia, Angola, Mozambique, Belgium Congo and South African union) about African majority Rule on behalf of their former European “mother countries”
Wilson died at his home in Yorkshire in 1990
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