Lord Longford: A Crusading Peer.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Doering, Jonathan W. | Copyright information

Editor's Note: It is somewhat ironic that the two British politicians whose deaths received the widest and most sympathetic coverage last year were hereditary peers. At a time when the Blair Government is anxious to destroy all the political influences of the hereditary peers, people were reminded of the tremendous role they had played in public life. The political careers of both Lord Longford and Lord Hailsham stretched back to the 1930s. Both men were distinguished by colourful,...

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