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Educated at the independent Sandroyd School
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| | 1910 |
Eton college - won a Divinty prize and excelled at cricket, rugby and rowing, winning House colours in the latter.
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| c | 1914 |
Served with the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, and reached the rank of captain. He received a Military Cross, and at the age of twenty-one became the youngest brigade-major in the British Army
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| c | 1919 |
He studied at Christ Church at the University of Oxford, where he graduated in Oriental Languages. He was fluent in French, German and Persian, and also spoke Russian and Arabic.
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| | 1922 |
Like many aspirant politicians Captain Eden, as he was still known, first contested a seat where he had little chance of winning in the November 1922 General Election
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| | 1923 |
Elected Member of Parliament for Warwick and Leamington in the December 1923 General Election, as a Conservative
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| | 1931 |
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs
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| | 1934 |
Lord Privy Seal and Minister for the League of Nations in Stanley Baldwin's Government
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| | 1935 |
Foreign secretary
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| | 1939 |
On the outbreak of war, Eden, who had briefly rejoined the army with the rank of major, returned to Chamberlain's government as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, but was not in the War Cabinet. As a result, he was not a candidate for the Premiership when Chamberlain resigned after Germany invaded France in May 1940 and Churchill became Prime Minister. Churchill appointed Eden Secretary of State for War.
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| | 1940 |
Returned to the Foreign Office
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| | 1941 |
Became a member of the executive committee of the Political Warfare Executive
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| | 1942 |
Given the additional job of Leader of the House of Commons
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| | 1945 |
Went into opposition as Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party
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| | 1951 |
Became Foreign Secretary for a third time when the Conservatives returned to office
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| | 1954 |
Made a Knight of the Garter and became Sir Anthony Eden
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| | 1955 |
Succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister
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| | 1957 |
Retired from politics
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| | 1957 |
Death of wife Beatrice Helen
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