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The Right Honourable
The Lord Deedes
KBE MC PC
Minister without Portfolio
In office
13 July 1962 – 16 October 1964
Prime Minister
  • Harold Macmillan
  • Alec Douglas-Home
Preceded byThe Lord Mills
Succeeded byEric Fletcher
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government
In office
18 October 1954 – 20 December 1955
Prime Minister
  • Winston Churchill
  • Anthony Eden
Preceded byErnest Marples
Succeeded byEnoch Powell
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
23 September 1986 – 17 August 2007
Life peerage
Member of Parliament
for Ashford
In office
23 February 1950 – 20 September 1974
Preceded byEdward Percy Smith
Succeeded byKeith Speed
Personal details
Born
William Francis Deedes

(1913-06-01)1 June 1913
Hampstead, London, England
Died17 August 2007(2007-08-17) (aged 94)
Aldington, Kent, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Evelyn Branfort
(died 2004)
Children5
Relatives
  • Wyndham Deedes (uncle)
  • Drummond Money-Coutts (grandson)
Sophia Money-Coutts (granddaughter)
EducationHarrow School
Military career
Service/branchBill Deedes British Army
Years of serviceWorld War II
RankMajor
Service number90126
Awards Military Cross

William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes, KBE, MC, PC (1 June 1913 – 17 August 2007) was a British Conservative politician, army officer and journalist. He was the first person in Britain to have been both a member of the Cabinet and the editor of a major daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.

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active campaign for legislative change. The former cabinet minister Bill Deedes, later editor of The Daily Telegraph, supported the group in that period...

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List of MPs elected in the 1950 United Kingdom general election

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William Boot

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legendary journalist Bill Deedes; the two had reported together in 1936, trying to cover the Second Italo-Abyssinian War and Deedes arrived in Addis Ababa...

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Edward Heath

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The Daily Telegraph

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paper was not a success, and Sleigh was unable to pay Levy the printing bill. Levy took over the newspaper, his aim being to produce a cheaper newspaper...

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Keith Speed

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October 1974 defeating Christopher Horne. He was selected to succeed Bill Deedes as Conservative Candidate for the seat of Ashford in Kent in the October...

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Battle of the Beanfield

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national newspapers for acting as a witness against Wiltshire Police; Bill Deedes' editorial in The Daily Telegraph claimed he was a class traitor. Consequently...

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1999 Australian republic referendum

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of the popular Australian media by British politician and journalist Bill Deedes who said in The Daily Telegraph in 1999: "I have rarely attended elections...

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Private Eye

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affectionate series of fictional letters from Denis Thatcher to Bill Deedes in the Dear Bill column, mocking Thatcher as an amiable, golf-playing drunk. The...

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Malcolm Muggeridge

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regular contact with George Orwell, Anthony Powell, Graham Greene and Bill Deedes; and he comments perceptively on Ian Fleming, Guy Burgess and Kim Philby...

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