Anthony Head, 1st Viscount Head
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Head GCMG CBE MC PC |
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| Secretary of State for War | |
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In office 31 October 1951 – 18 October 1956 |
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| Monarch |
George VI Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Sir Winston Churchill Sir Anthony Eden |
| Preceded by | John Strachey |
| Succeeded by | Hon. John Hare |
| Minister of Defence | |
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In office 18 October 1956 – 9 January 1957 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Sir Anthony Eden |
| Preceded by | Sir Walter Monckton |
| Succeeded by | Duncan Sandys |
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| Born | 19 December 1906 |
| Died | 29 March 1983 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Dorothea Ashley-Cooper |
| Alma mater | Royal Military College, Sandhurst |
Antony Henry Head, 1st Viscount Head, GCMG, CBE, MC, PC (19 December 1906 – 29 March 1983) was a British soldier, Conservative politician and diplomat.
Head was the son of Geoffrey Head and Ethel Daisy, daughter of Arthur Flower, and was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
A career soldier, Head was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars on 30 August 1926. He later joined the Life Guards, serving through the Second World War and achieving the rank of brigadier. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) on 20 December 1940.
Head was elected Conservative MP for Carshalton in 1945. He served as Secretary of State for War from 1951 to 1956 and as Minister of Defence (with a seat in the cabinet) from 1956 to 1957, in the administrations of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1951 and in 1960 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Head, of Throope in the County of Wiltshire. He was later High Commissioner to Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and High Commissioner to Malaysia from 1963 to 1966.
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