Anthony Eden
Anthony Eden was born in Durham, England, United Kingdom on June 12th, 1897 and is the Politician. At the age of 79, Anthony Eden biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Early political career, 1922–1931
Captain Eden, as he was then known, had been chosen to contest Spennymoor as a Conservative. He had hoped to win with some Liberal help at first, but by the time of the November 1922 general election, it was clear that the Labour vote had made that unlikely. The Marquess of Londonderry, a local coal owner, was his primary sponsor. Liberals gave way to Labour in this post.
Eden's father died on February 20th, 1915. He had inherited capital of £7,675 as a younger son, but after tax (approximately £375,000 and £35,000 at 2014 rates).
Eden read Lord Curzon's books and hoped to imitate him by entering politics with a view to specializing in international affairs. Eden married Beatrice Beckett in 1923 and after a two-day honeymoon in Essex, he was chosen to fight Warwick and Leamington for a by-election in November 1923. Daisy Greville, his Labour rival, was attracted to his sister Elfrida's mother-in-law and then mother to his wife's step-mother, Marjorie Blanche Beckett, née Greville. Parliament was dissolved for the December 1923 general election on November 16, 1923, during the by-election campaign. At the age of twenty-six, he was elected to Parliament.
In January 1924, the first Labour Government, under Ramsay MacDonald, took power. Eden's maiden speech (19 February 1924) was a bitter threat to Labour's defence policy that was largely dismissed, and he was only allowed to speak after extensive planning. He reprinted the address in the collection Foreign Affairs (1939) to give the appearance that he had been a consistent promoter of air power. Eden adored H. Asquith, who was also in his last year in the Commons, for his lucidity and brevity. He preached Anglo-Turkish friendship and the ratification of the Treaty of Lausanne, which had been signed in July 1923.
At the 1924 General Election, the Conservatives were re-elected. Eden, a disappointment not to have been offered a job in January 1925, went on a Middle East tour and visited Emir Feisal of Iraq. Feisal reminded him of the "Czar of Russia" and (I) suspect that his destiny will be similar" (ascension also befell the Iraqi Royal Family in 1958). During a visit to Pahlavi Iran, he inspected the Abadan Refinery, which he likened to "a Swansea on a small scale."
He was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Godfrey Locker-Lampson, Under-Secretary at the Home Office (17 February 1925), while under Home Secretary William Joynson Hicks.
He travelled to Canada, Australia, and India in July 1925. He wrote articles for The Yorkshire Post, which is run by his father-in-law Sir Gervase Beckett, who went by the name "Backbencher" in honor of his pseudonym "Backbencher." He appeared for the Yorkshire Post at the Imperial Conference in Melbourne in September 1925.
When Eden was appointed Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office in December 1925, he continued to be PPS to Locker-Lampson. He distinguished himself with a speech on the Middle East (21 December 1925), which called for the re-measurement of Iraqi borders in favour of Turkey but also for a renewed British mandate rather than a "scuttle." Eden ended his address by requesting that Anglo-Turkish relations be praised. On March 23, 1926, he spoke to convince the League of Nations to admit Germany, which would take place next year. He became PPS to Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain in July 1926.
He published a book about his travels, Places in the Sun, 1926, which was largely critical of the detrimental effects of socialism in Australia and for which Stanley Baldwin wrote a foreword.
Eden had to speak for the government in an interview in November 1928, after Austen Chamberlain was away on a trip to recover his health, in response to Ramsay MacDonald, then Leader of the Opposition. According to Austen Chamberlain, he would have been promoted to his first ministerial post, Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, if the Conservatives had won the 1929 election.
Eden received less than half of the vote at Warwick in 1929, the only time that Eden received less than half of the vote. After the Conservative loss, he joined a young democratic party, including Oliver Stanley, William Ormsby-Gore, and the incoming Speaker W.S. Morrison, "Shakes." Noel Skelton, who had coined the term "property-owning democracy" before his death, which Eden would later use as a candidate for the Conservative Party. Eden encouraged co-partnership in industry between managers and employees, in which he wanted to be recognized.
Eden worked as a City broker for Harry Lucas from 1929 to 1931, a company that was later absorbed into S. G. Warburg & Co.
