Bill Deedes
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The Right Honourable The Lord Deedes KBE MC PC |
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| Minister without Portfolio | |
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In office 13 July 1962 – 16 October 1964 |
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| Prime Minister |
Harold Macmillan Sir Alec Douglas-Home |
| Preceded by | The Lord Mills |
| Succeeded by | Eric Fletcher |
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Member of Parliament for Ashford |
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In office 23 February 1950 – 18 October 1974 |
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| Preceded by | Edward Percy Smith |
| Succeeded by | Keith Speed |
| Majority | 4,012 (13.4%) |
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1 June 1913 Kent, England, UK |
| Died | 17 August 2007 (aged 94) Kent, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Evelyn Branfort (died May 2004) |
| Children | 5 |
| Occupation | Editor |
| Religion | Christianity |
William Francis Deedes, Baron Deedes, KBE MC PC (1 June 1913 – 17 August 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician, army officer and journalist; he is to date the only person in Britain to have been both a member of the Cabinet and the editor of a major daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.
Brought up in the family home of Saltwood Castle and educated at Harrow, he was denied a university career after his father suffered heavy financial losses from the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Deedes began his career as a reporter on the Morning Post in 1931, joining the Daily Telegraph when it took over the Post in 1937. Between 1931 and the beginning of the war in 1939, he shared a home in Bethnal Green, with his uncle Wyndham Deedes.
Deedes fought with the British Army in the Second World War as an Officer in the 2nd Battalion, Queen's Westminsters, one of the Territorial units of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, gaining the Military Cross near Hengelo, The Netherlands in April 1945. He was also the only officer to serve in 12th King's Royal Rifle Corps (2nd Queen's Westminsters) for the duration of the war. His battalion served as the motorised battalion of 8th Armoured Brigade in the North-west Europe campaign.
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