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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock, Andrew Humphrey, Archibald Robertson (bishop), Arthur Edward Barstow, Benedict Allen, Ben Brocklehurst, Bradfield College, Brian Stevens (cricketer), Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, Cecil Cooper (bishop), Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe, Charles Ashpitel Denton, Charles Aylen, Charles Tannock, Christopher Courtney, Claude Blagden, Claudia Harrison, Cyril Falls, Cyril Townsend, David Owen, Douglas Kell, Edward Bidwell, Edward Gordon Craig, Eric Hamilton (bishop), Frank Barry (bishop), George Blackall Simonds, George Grey Wornum, George Paine (civil servant), Gerald Gazdar, Gerald Henry Summers, Gordon Wetherell, Graham Roope, Guy Garrod, Hamza Riazuddin, Henry Pelham Lee, Hubert Acland, Hugh Massy, John Bennett (actor), John Drury (priest), John Hamilton (artist), John Henry Godfrey, John Nott, Kaddy Lee-Preston, Louis de Bernieres, Mark Nicholas, Mark Nicholas Gray, Martin Ryle, Martin Wight, Matt Barber, Michael Coleman (bishop), Michael Hare-Duke, Michael Marshall (politician), Michael Scott (British Army officer), Mike Calvert, Morrice James, Baron St Brides, Nick Clarke, Peter Ainsworth, Peter Jones (broadcaster), Peter Leng, R. V. Vernede, Richard Adams, Richard Benyon, Richard Lancelyn Green, Robert Fetherstonhaugh, Roderic Hill, Simon Drew, Sir Francis Cook, 4th Baronet, Sir Reginald Brade, Sir William Lawrence, 3rd Baronet, Stephen Coleridge, Stephen Milligan, Terence Reese, Tim Dellor, Tony Hancock, Vivian H. H. Green, William Ormston Backhouse, Zachary Nugent Brooke. Excerpt: David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen CH PC FRCP (born 2 July 1938) is a British politician. Owen served as British Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979, the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post. In 1981, Owen was one of the "Gang of Four" who left the Labour Party to found the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Owen led the SDP from 1983 to 1987, and the continuing SDP from 1988 to 1990. He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. In the course of his career, Owen has held, and resigned from, a number of senior posts. He first quit as Labour's spokesman on defence in 1972 in protest at the Labour leader Harold Wilson's attitude to the EEC; he left the Labour Shadow cabinet over the same issue later; and over unilateral disarmament in November 1980 when Michael Foot became Labour leader. He resigned from the Labour Party when it rejected one member, one vote in February 1981 and later as Leader of the Social Democratic Party, which he had helped to found, after the party's rank-and-file membership voted to merge with the Liberal Party. Owen was born in 1938 to Welsh parents in the town of Plympton, beside Plymouth, in Devon, England. He also has Swiss and Irish ancestry. After schooling at Mount House School, Tavistock, and Bradfield College, Berkshire, he was admitted to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1956 to study medicine. Owen obtained a 2:2 and was made an Honorary Fellow of the college in 1977. He began clinical training at St Thomas's Hospital in October 1959. Owen was deeply affected by the Suez crisis of 1956, when Anthony Eden's Conservative government launched a military operation to retrieve the Suez Canal from Nasser's decision to nationalise it. At the time, aged 18, he was working on a labouring job before going to Cambridge. In 1960, Owen joined the Vauxhall branch of the Labour Party and the Fabian Society. He qualified as a doctor in 1962 and began work at St Thomas's Hospital. In 1964, he contested the Torrington seat as th
