Eden, (Robert) Anthony, first earl of Avon (1897–1977), prime minister

by D. R. Thorpe

  • Early years and education
  • Military service in the First World War
  • Oxford and political apprenticeship
  • National Government minister
  • First term as foreign secretary
  • Resignation, February 1938
  • Rehabilitation, 1938–1940
  • Churchill's wartime foreign secretary
  • Rebuilding the Conservatives in opposition
  • Return to the Foreign Office
  • Premiership before Suez
  • Suez crisis
  • Retirement, honours, and reputation

References

See also

Themes

  • Leaders of the Conservative and the Conservative and Unionist parties
  • Prime ministers of the United Kingdom
  • Glamour boys
  • Secretaries of state for war
  • Secretaries of state for foreign affairs

Other online resources

  • Bibliography of British and Irish history
  • Churchill Archive
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Register of Archives
  • Who Was Who

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