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Anthony Eden

1897 - 1977

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Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977), was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1955 until his resignation in 1957. Achieving rapid promotion as a young Conservative member of Parliament, he became foreign secretary aged 38, before resigning in protest at Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy towards Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime in Italy. He again held that position for most of the Second World War, and a third time in the early 1950s. Having been deputy to Winston Churchill for almost 15 years, Eden succeeded him as the leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister in 1955, and a month later won a general election. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anthony Eden is the 1,233rd most popular politician (down from 686th in 2019), the 328th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 170th in 2019) and the 79th most popular British Politician.

Anthony Eden was the British Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957. He is most famous for being the Prime Minister during the Suez Crisis.

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Among politicians, Anthony Eden ranks 1,233 out of 19,576. Before him are Jalal Talabani, Li Si, Sejo of Joseon, Baldur von Schirach, Louis V of France, and Hua Guofeng. After him are Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Edmund Ironside, Itō Hirobumi, James Connolly, Grigory Zinoviev, and Samuel of Bulgaria.

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Among people born in 1897, Anthony Eden ranks 17. Before him are Subhas Chandra Bose, Thích Quảng Đức, Paavo Nurmi, Ludwig Erhard, Yun Posun, and Jiroemon Kimura. After him are Lucky Luciano, Wilhelm Reich, Georges Bataille, Odd Hassel, Louis Aragon, and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1977, Anthony Eden ranks 14. Before him are A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Clementine Churchill, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Ludwig Erhard, René Goscinny, and Lee Miller. After him are Roberto Rossellini, Makarios III, Jacques Prévert, Ernst Bloch, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, and Kurt Schuschnigg.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony Eden ranks 328 out of 8,785. Before him are Tim Berners-Lee (1955), Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519), Frederick North, Lord North (1732), Francis Crick (1916), Ben Kingsley (1943), and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887). After him are Edmund Ironside (993), James Connolly (1868), Jeremy Irons (1948), Claude Auchinleck (1884), John Herschel (1792), and Roald Dahl (1916).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Anthony Eden ranks 79. Before him are Harold Godwinson (1022), Louise, Princess Royal (1867), Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881), Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester (1944), Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519), and Frederick North, Lord North (1732). After him are Edmund Ironside (993), James Connolly (1868), Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473), Benjamin Disraeli (1804), Tony Blair (1953), and Edward the Elder (871).

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