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Antony Head, 1st Viscount Head

The Right Honourable
The Viscount Head
GCMG CBE MC PC
Secretary of State for War
In office
31 October 1951 – 18 October 1956
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
In office
18 October 1956 – 9 January 1957
Monarch Elizabeth II
Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden
Preceded by Sir Walter Monckton
Succeeded by Duncan Sandys
Personal details
Born 19 December 1906 (1906-12-19)
Died 29 March 1983 (1983-03-30) (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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