"list. Pimlott observed in his biography of Wilson that political secretaries often write down lists at the instructions of their employers, and that in this case the fact that the list was pink does not itself prove anything. Both Falkender and Wilson maintained that the list was Wilson's. ""The Mail on Sunday"" in January 2018 published part of the document. Falkender said it was complied on Wilson's last day in Downing Street: “He put a pad in front of me of the pink paper that was stock paper back then and asked me to write out the names. My typewriter"
"Falkender, the head of Wilson's political office, after she attempted to blackmail Wilson over an affair they had twenty years earlier. The BBC, in an out-of-court settlement with Falkender, paid her £75,000 after these claims were repeated in ""The Lavender List"", a drama documentary written by Francis Wheen and broadcast in 2006. Although Haines himself was not sued, as a libel action involving him as the source it is generally accepted that the BBC settled because the original claimant would not stand behind the story. Roy Hattersley later referred to ""Glimmers of Twilight"" as a ""book of tall tales"". The"
"to form the Stone Ashdown Trust. In 2002, Wilson's former press secretary Joe Haines alleged that Stone had plotted to murder Labour politician Marcia Falkender in 1975, purportedly to prevent her from revealing that she and Wilson had had an affair; Falkender has rejected Haines's allegations as ""outrageous"". Labour Party politician Bernard Donoughue claimed in a 2011 documentary to have also heard Stone say, ""it was in the national interest she be put down"". Controversy and lack of clarity about events during this period were also approached by the BBC 4 drama, ""The Lavender List"". Falkender sued the BBC, and"
"Sarah Wilson (war correspondent) Lady Sarah Wilson, RRC (4 July 1865 – 22 October 1929), born Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Spencer-Churchill, became one of the first woman war correspondents in 1899, when she was recruited by Alfred Harmsworth to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the ""Daily Mail"" during the Second Boer War. Born on 4 July 1865 at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill was the youngest of the 11 children of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (1822–1883), and his wife, Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane (1822–1899), daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry. Her eldest brother"
"drama documentary for claiming that she conducted an adulterous affair with Harold Wilson and exercised undue influence over the compilation of his resignation honours list. In an out-of-court settlement, the corporation also agreed to pay an estimated £200,000 in costs and promised never to re-broadcast ""The Lavender List"", shown on the digital television channel BBC Four. The Lavender List The Lavender List is a docudrama broadcast on BBC Four in March 2006 about the events that led to the drafting of the ""Lavender List"", the satirical name for Harold Wilson's 1976 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours. The list caused controversy as"
"Harold Wilson's premiership, concentrating on his relationship with Marcia Williams, which first screened in March 2006. It starred Kenneth Cranham as Wilson and Gina McKee as Williams. In April 2007, the BBC paid £75,000 to Williams (then Baroness Falkender) in an out-of-court settlement over claims made in the programme. Wheen was opposed to the Falklands War. In an article syndicated to a number of American newspapers, Wheen stated: ""In a famous British play of the 1950s, ""Look Back in Anger"", the hero complained that 'there aren't any good, brave causes to fight for anymore'. Mrs Thatcher apparently agrees with this"
"political supporters. His choice of appointments caused lasting damage to his reputation, worsened by the suggestion that the first draft of the list had been written by his political secretary Marcia Williams on lavender notepaper (it became known as the ""Lavender List""). Roy Jenkins noted that Wilson's retirement ""was disfigured by his, at best, eccentric resignation honours list, which gave peerages or knighthoods to some adventurous business gentlemen, several of whom were close neither to him nor to the Labour Party."" Some of those whom Wilson honoured included Lord Kagan, the inventor of Gannex (Wilson's preferred raincoat), who was eventually"
"secretary in the Federalist office. Sue Hepburn, the sister of actress Katherine Hepburn, was on his Board of Directors. Reputedly, she saw ""sparks fly"" between the young veteran and the young woman and blocked the hiring. They met again in the Connecticut offices of Bice Clemow, the editor of the West Hartford News, for whom Peter Baron was working. Six months later they married in Wellesley. They had three children Edith R. Wilson (1952), Bice C. Wilson (1954), and Anne B. Wilson (1956). Don Wilson worked with computers all his adult life, starting in the Navy. Though not an engineer,"
"Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx (; 12 January 19166 June 2018) was an English poet and the wife of Harold Wilson, who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. She is the only spouse of any Prime Minister to have died a centenarian. She was born in Diss, Norfolk, the daughter of Reverend Daniel Baldwin, who was a Congregationalist minister. She attended boarding school at Milton Mount College near Crawley, leaving aged 16 to attend a secretarial course for two years. She was employed as a stenographer at Lever Brothers"
"secretary of Lady Rhondda. In 1919, she joined the general staff of the Parliamentary Labour Party and in 1923 was hired by Ramsay MacDonald, the Labour Party leader, as his private secretary. When MacDonald became Prime Minister (PM) she earned the nickname in the press as ""Miss Rose of No. 10"", after 10 Downing Street, headquarters of the Government of the United Kingdom. She remained at her post when he resigned the premiership in 1925 and became the leader of the opposition. From 1929 through MacDonald's second posting as PM, which ended in 1935, Rosenberg was the conduit for information"
"Harold Wilson James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916– 24 May 1995) was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976. Entering Parliament in 1945, Wilson was appointed a parliamentary secretary in the Attlee ministry and rose quickly through the ministerial ranks; he became Secretary for Overseas Trade in 1947 and was elevated to Cabinet shortly thereafter as President of the Board of Trade. In opposition to the next Conservative government, he served as Shadow Chancellor (19551961) and Shadow Foreign Secretary (19611963). Hugh Gaitskell,"
"correspondent for George Outram & Co. in Glasgow, before moving to Edinburgh around 1960 to work for the ""Scottish Daily Mail"". From 1964 he was employed by the pre-Murdoch ""Sun"", and became Harold Wilson's press secretary in 1969. In 1974, Wilson had a health scare over a racing heart complaint, but ""I told the press, who believed me when I said that Harold had the flu,"" Haines recalled in 2004. ""We had an economic crisis and we had a majority of three"", he explained. In ""Glimmers of Twilight"" (2003), Haines claims that Wilson's doctor Joseph Stone offered to murder Marcia"
"Harold Wilson began in 1964 the process of transforming nearly all of the various ministers and board presidents which made up the British cabinet into secretaries of state. By the end of the twentieth century, virtually all departmental cabinet ministers were secretaries of state, with the notable exception of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In contrast to the general stability of the secretaryships before the 1960s, the exact number and duties of the various secretaries of state has been very fluid, with only the Foreign and Home Secretaries, the two original secretaries of state, maintaining a consistent portfolio. The honorific"
"sued Joe Haines for libel in 2007 over the statement that she was the author of the list. Many statements in the media were subject to litigation by both Wilson and Falkender during the 1970s, which later gave rise to a long complaint by Wilson published in the Times that his administration had been subject to an alleged smear campaign. Wilson's suspicions were later partially corroborated by former MI5 Assistant Director Peter Wright in his book ""Spycatcher"", a book that was initially banned from publication in the UK. According to a letter from Edith Summerskill published in ""The Times"" on"
"of English officeholders. Harriette Wilson Harriette Wilson (2 February 1786 – 10 March 1845) is the author of ""The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: Written by Herself"" (1825). Wilson was a famed British Regency courtesan who became the mistress of William, Lord Craven, at the age of 15. Later in her career, she went on to have formal relationship arrangements with Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and other significant politicians. Harriette Dubouchet's birth at 2 Carrington Street, in Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London, was recorded in the parish register of St. George, Hanover Square. Her father kept a small shop with"
"title of baronet and sold them for £1,500 each to raise money for his war in Ireland. In the 1920s David Lloyd George was involved in a barely concealed ""cash for patronage"" scandal managed by Maundy Gregory, which resulted in the 1925 Act which barred this (purchase of peerages had not previously been illegal). In 1976 Harold Wilson's resignation honours list was similarly embroiled in what became known as the ""Lavender List"" (supposedly hand-written on lavender paper by Marcia Williams). This, though widely deemed to include some unsuitable and unsalubrious nominees, rewarded Wilson's friends and carried no suggestion of overt"
"small study to help him keep track of the plot twists in his novel, ""A Fable"". The quality and quantity of Faulkner's literary output were achieved despite a lifelong drinking problem. He rarely drank while writing, preferring instead to binge after a project's completion. Faulkner had several extramarital affairs. One was with Howard Hawks's secretary and script girl, Meta Carpenter, later known as Meta Wilde. The affair was chronicled in her book ""A Loving Gentleman"". Another, from 1949–53, was with a young writer, Joan Williams, who made her relationship with Faulkner the subject of her 1971 novel, ""The Wintering"". When"
"politics, treating his estates, including Maryland, largely as sources of revenue to support his extravagant and often scandalous lifestyle. In 1768 he was accused of abduction and rape by Sarah Woodcock, a noted beauty who kept a milliner's shop at Tower Hill. The jury acquitted Calvert but he left England soon afterwards, and never recovered from the public scandal which surrounded the trial. He had many mistresses, including Hester Whelan, Henry Harford's mother. Henry Harford was born in Bond Street, London, on April 5, 1758, the fruit of an extra-marital union between Lord Baltimore and his mistress Mrs. Hester Whelan."
"beginning of the pair's lengthy political relationship. She gained further experience as the UK's alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly for 1949–1950, when she displayed particular concerned for social and humanitarian issues. She soon achieved a reputation as a left-winger and a rousing speaker. During the 1950s she was a high-profile Bevanite, and made a name for herself as a vocal advocate of decolonisation and the Anti-Apartheid Movement. Labour returned to government under Harold Wilson in October 1964 following a general election, defeating Alec Douglas-Home's Conservative government by winning a slim majority of four seats, thus ending 13"
"After Jefferson won the presidency, Callender sought employment as a postmaster, which was denied by Jefferson. Callender then reported on President Jefferson's alleged children by his slave concubine Sally Hemings. Self-educated, Callender worked as a recorder of deeds in Scotland when he began publishing satire. He turned to politics, some thought to sedition, in a pamphlet, ""The Political Progress of Britain"", which caused a furor and led him to flee Great Britain for America. He gained notoriety in Philadelphia in the 1790s with reportage and attacks on Alexander Hamilton. Subsequently, he was imprisoned under the Alien and Sedition Acts, and"
"1974 general election, Beckett lost to Taverne by 1,297 votes. After the election, she worked as a researcher for Judith Hart, the Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign Office. Harold Wilson called another general election in October 1974, and Beckett again stood against Taverne in Lincoln at the October 1974 general election. This time Beckett became the MP, with a majority of 984 votes. Almost immediately after her election she was appointed as Judith Hart's Parliamentary Private Secretary. Harold Wilson made her a Whip in 1975, and she was promoted in 1976 by James Callaghan to Parliamentary Under Secretary"
"the War Department during World War I. Wilson's cabinet experienced turnover after the conclusion of World War I, with Carter Glass replacing McAdoo as Secretary of the Treasury and A. Mitchell Palmer becoming Attorney General. Wilson's chief of staff (""Secretary"") was Joseph Patrick Tumulty from 1913 to 1921. Tumulty's position provided a political buffer and intermediary with the press, and his irrepressible Irish spirits offset the president's often dour Scotch disposition. Wilson's first wife, Ellen Axson Wilson died on August 6, 1914. Wilson married Edith Bolling Galt in 1915, and she assumed full control of Wilson's schedule, diminishing Tumulty's power."
"Secretary of State for Economic Affairs The Secretary of State for Economic Affairs was briefly an office of Her Majesty's government in the United Kingdom. It was established by Harold Wilson in October 1964. Wilson had been impressed by the six-weeks experiment of a Minister for Economic Affairs in 1947, an office occupied by Stafford Cripps before he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer. The office was revived for eight months in 1950 and held by Hugh Gaitskell and, after Conservative victory in 1951 election, Churchill also appointed a Minister of Economic Affairs, Arthur Salter, in the period 1951–52. Wilson's"
"feminist MP Thelma Cazalet-Keir. In Harold Wilson's first government, he served from 1964 to 1966 as Minister without Portfolio, House of Commons spokesman for the Lord Chancellor's Department and then Deputy Speaker. Fletcher also served as a member of the Church Assembly, 1962 and as a member of the Senate of the University of London and governor of Birkbeck College and the London School of Economics. He was knighted in 1964, And appointed to the Privy Council in 1967. On 9 July 1970, Fletcher was created a life peer as Baron Fletcher, of Islington in Greater London. Eric Fletcher, Baron"
"well as by Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. In addition they were worn by Arctic and Antarctic explorers, Himalayan climbers, the armed services and police forces in Britain and Canada. The success of the new fabric made Kagan a multi-millionaire and a series of mergers, takeovers and outright purchases put Kagan Textiles in control of one of the most efficient combines in the textile and clothing industries. In 1967, he bought Barkisland Hall, Barkisland as accommodation for visitors to his company. Huddersfield was the home town of Harold Wilson, later Leader of the Opposition in 1963, and Kagan"
"1970. His head for figures and tenacity made him a good candidate for Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee in the House of Commons, succeeding Harold Wilson in this post after Wilson was elected Leader of the Labour Party in 1963. When, after 13 years in government, the Conservative Party was defeated in October 1964, Houghton became a cabinet minister in Wilson's first government and was appointed a Privy Counsellor. The post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster after 1964 gave Houghton a position in the cabinet and special responsibility for Social Services but not an actual department over"
"it for Ballard's office. Even before his death, there had been battles between his children, Bill Ballard, Harold Ballard Jr., and Mary Elizabeth Flynn, and his longtime companion, Yolanda Ballard (though she and Harold never married, she had her name legally changed; she claimed to have been with Ballard for eight years at the time of his death). In 1989, Bill Ballard was convicted of assaulting Yolanda and fined $500. Yolanda was not invited to Ballard's funeral, nor to the reading of his will. She fought with Ballard's family and partners over Ballard's estate following his death. In his will,"
"election, and he won election. The following year, she was elected to the executive of the Fabian Society. When James died, early in 1931, local Labour Party activists asked her to be the new candidate, but she declined. She spent the remainder of her life in retirement, dying in 1974. Sarah Melville Sarah Melville, Lady Melville (1884 or 1885 – 19 October 1974) was a British political activist. Born Sarah Tugander, she met Conservative Party politician Bonar Law in 1907 and became his private secretary. She continued in post until 1916, by which time Bonar Law had served as leader"
"Harold Wilson re-entered office in March 1974, the office was split into the Department of Trade, the Department of Industry and the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection, resulting in the creation of three new positions: Secretary of State for Industry, Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection, and Secretary of State for Trade. The title President of the Board of Trade became the secondary title of the Secretary of State for Trade. In 1979 the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection was abolished by the incoming Conservative government and its responsibilities were reintegrated into the Department of Trade."
"trade; and to Sheffield constituency politics over many years, including Lib-Lab relations at the beginning of this century. As the Sheffield Smelting Company the Wilsons ran a business for refining precious metal from metallic waste, the records of which form a separate archive. The correspondence of H. J. Wilson's aunt, Mrs Mary Anne Rawson, takes the family record back to the anti-slavery period, a topic in which she was much interested. The name of Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) has already been mentioned. Most of his correspondence was received after the publication of the Bibliography of Edward Carpenter by the City Libraries"
"Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine (née Khan; born 9 March 1955) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and life peer. She is the Chairman of the EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee in the House of Lords. Prior to her enoblement as a life peer with the title Baroness Falkner of Margravine, of Barons Court in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham on 2 June 2004, Falkner worked in a variety of jobs for the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons and the party headquarters including as Director of International Affairs and Director"
"marrying Wilsons"" due to their marriages to the wealthiest and most prominent families of the day. Among her siblings was sister Belle, who married Sir Michael Henry Herbert, the younger brother of the 13th Earl of Pembroke, and youngest sister, Grace, who became the wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt III. Her brothers were banker Richard Thornton Wilson Jr., who married Marion Steedman Mason; and Marshall Orme Wilson, who married Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, youngest daughter of William Astor and Caroline Astor (known as ""The Mrs. Astor"") of the Astor family. In 1892, May and Ogden were included in Ward McAllister's ""Four Hundred"","
"of Enterprise"" (1821), and ""Botanical Rambles"" (1822), were successful, and remained in print for several editions. Two days after the birth of Daniel Frederick Wilson (1829–1918), their first child, Sarah Atkins married Daniel Wilson, the vicar of Islington, on 14 December 1829. Atkins changed her first name to Lucy upon being baptized for her marriage to a clergyman. Her books, therefore, are attributed to various combinations of her names, including Sarah Atkins, Lucy Wilson, and Sarah Atkins Wilson. Additionally, as was common at the time, many of her books were published under pseudonyms, such as 'A Lady,' or as the"