[1] She married the rising politician Geoffrey Howe in 1953, and had three children, Caroline (Cary), and twins, Amanda and Alec.[2]. He probably should have, because his last year in the government was miserable and he nurtured a gnawing sense of grievance over Mrs Thatcher’s “ceaseless and hectoring interruptions” and petty acts of rudeness. On 29 June 2001, at the age of 69, she was made a life peer, as "Baroness Howe of Idlicote", of Shipston-on-Stour in the County of Warwickshire,[4] in her own right, becoming one of the first People's Peers. Howe attended Winchester College on a scholarship and studied law (1948–51) at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The prime minister became increasingly overbearing towards Geoffrey Howe who had been her close political companion in the early days”. Then he was fortunate to win the nomination for Bebington, in the Wirral, in time for the 1964 election. She is the widow of Geoffrey Howe. Respected by his staff, Howe was a courteous and considerate man, had a fierce appetite for work, and was the master of briefs presented to him. After a six-month course in maths and physics, he was commissioned into the Royal Signals and served in East Africa, where he climbed Kilimanjaro. Going up to Cambridge in 1948, he switched from Classics to Law. But the differences in tone between the Foreign Office and No 10, particularly over Europe and South Africa, undermined him. Active too in the photographic and film societies, he would often as a statesman be seen — and photographed — snapping the sights of the world. In the teeth of a world recession, his 1981 budget was crucial – and much criticised even on the Tory benches. His lust for detail was so strong that in his memoirs he proudly noted that he had reduced the number of unpaid parking tickets by foreign diplomats from 109,000 to 7,800 per year. In the Lords, he spoke on foreign policy issues and led opposition to the Nolan Committee’s attempts to curb MPs’ outside interests and the Labour government’s plan to convert the upper house into an appointed body. Elspeth Howe was created a life peer as Lady Howe of Idlicote in 2001. Boundary changes before the snap “Who governs Britain?” election called by Heath for February 1974 redrew Howe’s seat as East Surrey, and in defeat Heath appointed him a social services spokesman. The Tories had promised to honour an independent study – by Prof Hugh Clegg which recommended restoring public sector pay to levels close to where they were before Labour’s IMF-enforced cuts. Pino - logical board game which is based on tactics and strategy. At Westminster he became secretary of the Conservative backbench Health and Social Service Committee, and was soon made a front-bench spokesman on labour and welfare. Former British Finance Minister Geoffrey Howe died. 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The next two years saw a much tighter stance on public sector pay accompanied by factory closures and steep rises in unemployment, as Howe tightened the money supply and allowed exchange rates to rise. With a final devastating flourish he threw the door open to a leadership challenge by declaring: “The time has come for others to consider their own response to the tragic conflict of loyalties, with which I have myself wrestled for perhaps too long.”. Having served a full parliament as an ultimately successful chancellor, Howe was foreign secretary for six years, the longest tenure since the First World War. Yet, although it did not seem so at the time, it proved the turning point for the government’s fortunes. He also chaired an inquiry into alleged abuse of mental patients at Ely Hospital, Cardiff, in 1969. By the time he was removed from the Foreign Office it was common knowledge that they were at their wits’ end with each other. Or as Howe himself put it: “She was often exasperated by my tenaciously quiet brand of advocacy.”. She sat in the Youth Court at Camberwell where she was a bench chairman. Mrs Thatcher took her revenge a month later, replacing him with the little-known John Major. Many felt it odd that Howe chose to resign when Britain had joined the ERM. The last straw was Mrs Thatcher’s performance at the Rome summit in October 1990 from which she returned declaring “No, No, No!” to closer European economic and political union. He found the Queen asking him about Britain’s decision to join the ERM before he even knew it had happened. What is perhaps remarkable is that the final shipwreck did not occur earlier than it did. Elspeth Shand was educated at Wycombe Abbey, a leading private school for girls, and at the London School of Economics. Faithful Conservative chancellor and foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher who later rebelled against her leadership style. He was called to the bar in 1952 and was made a queen’s counsel in 1965, the year after he was first elected to Parliament. In the 1999 New Year's Honours she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote, CBE (born Elspeth Rosamund Morton Shand; 8 February 1932) is a British life peer. He took on a number of directorships, and advisory posts in the law and academia. Rewarded with the Foreign Office after that year’s landslide election victory, Howe gained a reputation as an unflappable slogger and an effective ambassador for a country whose international stature he had been instrumental in reviving. Such was the anti-Tory swing that the 9,000 majority he inherited was cut to 2,000. Underneath Howe’s mild, avuncular manner lay a convinced monetarist minded and equipped to implement policies instinctively dear to Mrs Thatcher. In the 1999 New Year's Honours she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). As the widow of Geoffrey Howe, she was formerly known as Lady Howe of Aberavon … His patient emollience was frequently overshadowed by the Prime Minister’s rumbustious language and thirst for victory. Elspeth Howe served as deputy chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission from 1975 to 1979, and in various other capacities from 1980. Having already been styled Lady Howe by dint of her husband's knighthood and then his peerage, it was quipped when she received her own peerage that she was "once, twice, three times a Lady". Then, in the 1966 election, he lost his seat. Geoffrey was at Winchester for the duration of the Second World War. Howe coupled his studies with an active involvement in politics, following what would become the classic post-war route to a Tory seat. More significantly for his future, he sat on the Latey Committee on the age of majority, which recommended the reduction in the voting age from 21 to 18; the Street Committee on racial discrimination; and the Cripps Committee on discrimination against women. Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, CH, Kt, PC, QC (20 December 1926 – 9 October 2015), known from 1970 to 1992 as Sir Geoffrey Howe, was a British Conservative politician. [3] Lady Howe was a Justice of the Peace in Inner London from 1964 until her retirement from the Bench in 2002. In a devastating piece of parliamentary oratory, Howe delivered a ferocious indictment of Mrs Thatcher’s style of leadership in which he compared her treatment of her subordinates negotiating in Europe to that of a cricket captain who sends his batsmen to the crease, having first broken their bats in the changing room. 1975 to 1979, and in various other capacities from 1980 Africa, undermined him than it did May,! 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