About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: Anthony Lowther (died 1741), Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool, Cumbrian MPs, Dale Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours, David Maclean, Eric Martlew, Fred Peart, Baron Peart, George Fletcher (politician), Henry Aglionby Aglionby, Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, Jamie Reed, John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, Josceline Bagot, Joseph Bliss, Joseph Symonds, Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, Richard Page, Richard Penn (governor), Sir John Anstruther, 4th Baronet, Sir John Osborn, 5th Baronet, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 3rd Baronet, of Brayton, Theodore Carr, Tim Collins (politician), Tim Farron, Tony Cunningham, William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw. Excerpt: William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, KT, CH, MC, PC, DL (28 June 1918 - 1 July 1999), often known as Willie Whitelaw, was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister. Whitelaw was born in Nairn, in northeast Scotland. He never knew his father, who was killed in the First World War when he was a baby. He was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won a blue for golf and joined the Officer Training Corps. By chance he was in a summer camp in 1939 on the outbreak of the Second World War and was granted a regular, not wartime, commission in the British Army, in the Scots Guards, later serving in the 6th Guards Tank Brigade, a separate unit from the Guards Armoured Division. He commanded Churchill tanks in Normandy during the Second World War and during Operation Bluecoat in late July 1944, his was the first Allied unit to encounter German Jagdpanther tank destroyers, being attacked by three out of the twelve of these vehicles which were in Normandy. The battalion second-in-command was killed when his tank was hit in front of Whitelaw's eyes and Whitelaw succeeded to this position, holding it, with the rank of Major, throughout the advance through the Netherlands into Germany and until the end of the war. He was awarded the Military Cross for his actions at Caumont; a photograph of Field-Marshal Bernard Montgomery pinning the medal to his chest appears in his memoirs. After the end of the war in Europe, Whitelaw's unit was to have taken part in the invasion of Japan but the Pacific War ended before this. Instead he was posted to Palestine, before leaving the army in 1946 to take care of the family estates of Gartshore and Woodhall in Lanarkshire, which he inherited on the death of his grandfather. After early defeats as a candidate for the constituency of East Dunbartonshire, he became Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrit
