"(1954–1965), then to actor John Merivale (1986–1990, his death) and finally to Aubrey Ison (1992–2007, his death). During her marriage to Aubrey Ison, the couple lived in Palm Desert, California; following Aubrey's death, Dinah returned to the UK in 2007. Her son Jeremy Hanley became an accountant, Conservative Party Chairman and government minister under John Major's administration. Her daughter Jenny Hanley became an actress and a co-presenter of the British television series ""Magpie"". Another daughter died in infancy. Throughout her life she remained close friends and correspondent with several former co-stars, particularly Dame Gladys Cooper, Sir John Gielgud, Douglas Fairbanks"
"sanctions against Rhodesia, as well as the ""unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism"" episode involving 8 Directors being sacked by Tiny Rowland. Duncan Sandys Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys, (; 24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987) was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill. Sandys, born 24 January 1908 Manor House, Sandford Orcas, Dorset, was the son of George John Sandys, a Conservative member of parliament (1910–1918) and Mildred Helen Cameron. Sandys parents divorced in January 1921 when he was 12 years old. His"
"Duncan Sandys Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys, (; 24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987) was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill. Sandys, born 24 January 1908 Manor House, Sandford Orcas, Dorset, was the son of George John Sandys, a Conservative member of parliament (1910–1918) and Mildred Helen Cameron. Sandys parents divorced in January 1921 when he was 12 years old. His mother married Frederick Hamilton Lister in October the same year becoming Mildred Helen Lister. He was educated at Eton College and Magdalen"
"Jr and Sir Dirk Bogarde. Cooper was the stepmother of actor John (Jack) Merivale, Dinah's long-time partner (1968–86) and later husband (1986–90, his death). For many years John Merivale required kidney dialysis which Dinah learnt to perform at home. Dinah Sheridan Dinah Sheridan (17 September 1920 – 25 November 2012) was an English actress with a career spanning seven decades. She was best known for the films ""Genevieve"" (1953) and ""The Railway Children"" (1970); the long-running BBC comedy series ""Don't Wait Up"" (1983–90); and for her distinguished theatre career in London's West End. Sheridan was born Dinah Nadyejda Ginsburg in"
"named after him. His daughter Mariette is married to the businessman Alan Lovell. Bernard Weatherill Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, (25 November 1920 – 6 May 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1983 and 1992. He was the son of Bernard Bruce Weatherill (1883–1962) and Annie Gertrude née Creak (1886–1966). He married Lyn Eatwell (1928–) in 1949 and they had three children: Bernard Richard, QC (born 1951), Henry Bruce (born 1953) and Virginia (born 1955). Weatherill was known as ""Jack"", while his twin sister (baptismal name Margery) was called"
"Pamela Harriman Pamela Beryl Harriman (""née"" Digby; 20 March 1920 – 5 February 1997), also known as Pamela Churchill Harriman, was an English-born American political activist for the Democratic Party, diplomat, and socialite. She married three important and powerful men, her first husband being Randolph Churchill, the son of prime minister Winston Churchill. Her only child, Winston Churchill, was named after his famous grandfather. She was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, England, the daughter of Edward Digby, 11th Baron Digby, and his wife, Constance Pamela Alice, the daughter of Henry Campbell Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare. Pamela was educated by governesses in"
"directly, particularly to the top target seats. In April 2006, a Conservative Party committee on candidates set out to deliver a promise by David Cameron to transform the Conservative party at Westminster. The committee reduced 500 aspiring politicians on the party's list of approved parliamentary candidates to an ""A-list"" of between 100 and 150 priority candidates. The result was a list on which more than half of the names were of women. The list included the former ""Coronation Street"" actor Adam Rickitt, the non-domiciled son of a billionaire Zac Goldsmith, the author Louise Bagshawe (later Mensch), and Margot James. Amid"
"Christopher Soames Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, (12 October 1920 – 16 September 1987) was a British politician, a member of the Conservative Party and son-in-law of Winston Churchill. A European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia, he was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1950 to 1966. He held several government posts and attained Cabinet rank. Soames was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire, England, the son of Captain Arthur Granville Soames (the brother of Olave Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide, both descendants of a brewing family which had joined the landed gentry) by his marriage"
"children: Lord Soames died from pancreatitis, aged 66. His ashes were buried within the Churchill plot at St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Christopher Soames Arthur Christopher John Soames, Baron Soames, (12 October 1920 – 16 September 1987) was a British politician, a member of the Conservative Party and son-in-law of Winston Churchill. A European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia, he was previously the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1950 to 1966. He held several government posts and attained Cabinet rank. Soames was born in Penn, Buckinghamshire, England, the son of Captain Arthur Granville"
"in national newspapers about Clarke's alleged misconduct. In November 2015 he was expelled and banned for life from representing or joining the Conservative Party. His alleged misconduct within the Conservative Party also led to national newspaper coverage about the extent to which senior figures in the Party knew about complaints regarding his actions that subsequently led to the resignation of Grant Shapps as a government minister. Clarke was born in June 1977, to Madeline Clarke and Denis Ogden. He is a great nephew of Dominica's first female Prime Minister, Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, grandson of Bertie Clarke, a Barbados-born member"
"votes over the second-placed Labour Party candidate. However, at the 1950 general election, Newark's Labour candidate was George Deer, the outgoing MP for Lincoln. Deer won the seat, ending Shephard's career in the House of Commons. He died on 25 November 1953, aged 59 years. Sidney Shephard Sydney Shephard (29 March 1894 – 25 November 1953) was a British Conservative Party politician. Sydney Shephard was born at Nottingham on 29 March 1894, one of five children of Charles and Mary Shephard. He is recorded in the 1901 Census, aged 7 years, living at 225 Noel Street, Nottingham, where his father’s"
"in its leader Iain Duncan Smith, he was elected unopposed. In the 2005 General Election, the Conservatives gained 33 new seats in Westminster, including five from the Liberal Democrats, but this still gave them only 198 seats to Labour's 355. Following the election, Howard resigned as Leader of the Conservative Party and was succeeded by David Cameron. Howard did not contest his seat of Folkestone and Hythe in the 2010 General Election and entered the House of Lords as Baron Howard of Lympne. He has been supportive of the Eurosceptic pressure group Leave Means Leave. Howard was born Michael Hecht"
"Austen Chamberlain Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG (16 October 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a British statesman, son of Joseph Chamberlain and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain. He stood for the Liberal Unionist Party, which merged with the Conservatives in 1912, and led the Conservatives in the Commons in 1921–22. As Foreign Secretary, he negotiated the Locarno Pact (1925), aimed at preventing war between France and Germany, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was one of the few MPs supporting Winston Churchill's appeals for rearmament against the German threat in the 1930s. Austen Chamberlain was born"
"Conservative Party on 23 June 2015 after losing confidence in the founder, Colin Craig. On 7 September 2016, Christine Rankin testified in a defamation lawsuit brought by the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union founder Jordan Williams against the former Party leader Colin Craig. Williams had filed legal action against Craig after the latter claimed that Williams had lied when he said that Craig sexually harassed his press secretary Rachel MacGregor. During the trial, Rankin testified that Craig had disclosed details of his relationship with MacGregor and that this revelation had led her to lose confidence in Craig's leadership of the Conservative"
"Nicholas Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham Nicholas Charles Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham (1941–27 August 2009), was a British Conservative politician. A member of the Cavendish family headed by the Duke of Devonshire, Chesham was the son of John Cavendish, 5th Baron Chesham and Mary Edmunds Marshall. He took his seat in the House of Lords on his father's death in 1989, and served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Government Whip in the House of Lords) from 1995 to 1997 in the Conservative administration of John Major. However, he lost his seat in the House of Lords"
"of government."" Lewis married Justine Rappolt in 1999; the couple have two children. He completed the London Marathon in 2005 and 2008 and lists triathlon as an interest. He is a member of the Carlton Club. Brandon Lewis Brandon Kenneth Lewis (born 20 June 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio since 2018, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Great Yarmouth since 2010. Lewis was born on 20 June 1971 in Harold Wood in London. He was privately educated at Forest School in Walthamstow. He received"
"Bernard Weatherill Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, (25 November 1920 – 6 May 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1983 and 1992. He was the son of Bernard Bruce Weatherill (1883–1962) and Annie Gertrude née Creak (1886–1966). He married Lyn Eatwell (1928–) in 1949 and they had three children: Bernard Richard, QC (born 1951), Henry Bruce (born 1953) and Virginia (born 1955). Weatherill was known as ""Jack"", while his twin sister (baptismal name Margery) was called ""Jill"". After attending Malvern College, he was apprenticed at age 17 as a"
"Alfred Sherman and his son Gideon. From the mid-1980s, Western Goals had established a parliamentary advisory committee of Conservative MPs which included Sir Patrick Wall, Nicholas Winterton, Neil Hamilton and Bill Walker, as well as Martin Smyth of the Ulster Unionist Party for Belfast South. In 1991, Western Goals was accused in a newspaper report of engineering a ""take-over"" of the Conservative Monday Club, and there were reports that some veteran members believed the Club had become ""more extreme"". Gregory Lauder-Frost, writing in his capacity as Club Political Secretary, rejected these claims in a right-of-reply letter published the following week."
"Gerald Howarth Sir James Gerald Douglas Howarth (born 12 September 1947), known as Gerald Howarth, is a British Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aldershot from 1997 until 2017, having been the MP for Cannock and Burntwood from 1983 to 1992. He was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence as Minister for International Security Strategy from May 2010 to September 2012 and is chairman of Conservative Way Forward. In 2016, he joined the political advisory board of Leave Means Leave. He stood down at the 2017 general election. The son of"
"James's, central London. Andrew Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree Andrew Simon Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree, (born 25 February 1966) is a British barrister, businessman and Conservative fundraiser and politician. ""The Financial Times"" described Feldman as ""David Cameron's oldest political friend"" since their days together at Brasenose College, Oxford. Feldman was responsible for fundraising David Cameron's successful Tory leadership campaign in 2005. He was created a life peer by David Cameron in 2010, and then Chairman of the Conservative Party, first as co-chairman alongside Sayeeda Warsi and then Grant Shapps between 2010 and 2015, then on his own as sole"
"Andrew Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree Andrew Simon Feldman, Baron Feldman of Elstree, (born 25 February 1966) is a British barrister, businessman and Conservative fundraiser and politician. ""The Financial Times"" described Feldman as ""David Cameron's oldest political friend"" since their days together at Brasenose College, Oxford. Feldman was responsible for fundraising David Cameron's successful Tory leadership campaign in 2005. He was created a life peer by David Cameron in 2010, and then Chairman of the Conservative Party, first as co-chairman alongside Sayeeda Warsi and then Grant Shapps between 2010 and 2015, then on his own as sole chairman from May"
"this, the Conservatives posted a slightly modified version of the image with the words ""Fire up the Quattro. It's time for Change. Vote for Change. Vote Conservative."" Subsequently, Kudos Productions—which owns the copyright to the Gene Hunt character—wrote to both parties requiring them to cease using the image. Philip Glenister was introduced to David Cameron, now UK Prime Minister, at the 2009 Police Bravery Awards. Glennister later quipped 'Six months later, he's (Cameron) on Radio 5 Live saying exactly what I've just said. B*****d nicked my line!"" Glenister appeared in the 2012 stage play ""This House"" playing Labour Chief Whip"
"leading Conservative figures including First Secretary of State Damian Green, Brexit Secretary David Davis, then-Chief Whip Gavin Williamson, and party chairman Patrick McLoughlin. This was reciprocated in November, when Damian Green and Conservative Chief Whip Julian Smith attended the DUP's conference, with Smith giving a keynote address. Prominent Conservative Ministers and ex-Ministers such as Environment Secretary Michael Gove and former International Development Secretary Priti Patel also headlined fundraising events for the DUP in September 2017 and February 2018 respectively. Former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage also spoke at a DUP fundraiser in May 2018, with his main financial backer,"
"Dinah Sheridan Dinah Sheridan (17 September 1920 – 25 November 2012) was an English actress with a career spanning seven decades. She was best known for the films ""Genevieve"" (1953) and ""The Railway Children"" (1970); the long-running BBC comedy series ""Don't Wait Up"" (1983–90); and for her distinguished theatre career in London's West End. Sheridan was born Dinah Nadyejda Ginsburg in Hampstead Garden Suburb to Charlotte Lisa (née Everth; 1893–1966) and James Ginsburg (1893–1958). Her father was born in Osaka, Japan, to a Jewish father of Russian descent. Her mother was born in Kew, Surrey, to parents of German descent."
"Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his one-nation conservatism or ""Tory democracy"". He made the Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is the only British Prime"
"the Conservative Party Iain Duncan Smith. In April 2015, David Cameron denied any such plans to cut child benefits or tax credits. However, three months later, George Osborne, the then Finance Minister, announced that child tax credits would be limited to the first two children only. This was to come into force from the 2017/2018 financial year and apply to children born after that date only. From February 2019 however the policy becomes retrospective. Families making a new benefit claim (or whose circumstances change) will have the 2-child policy applied to them irrespective of when their children were born. The"
"son of Conservative politician Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys by his wife Diana Churchill, daughter of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Conservative politician David Martin is his father's brother. Martin was educated at the pre-preparatory Hylton School and the preparatory Exeter Cathedral School where he found his passion for music. After Exeter Cathedral School, Martin boarded at Sherborne School in Dorset, where he met future Coldplay manager Phil Harvey. Martin continued his studies at University College London (UCL), staying at Ramsay Hall, where he read Ancient World Studies and graduated with first-class honours in Greek and Latin. At UCL, Martin"
"to David Cameron's son, Ivan, who died at the age of six. Steve Hilton Steve Hilton (born 25 August 1969) is a British political adviser and commentator. He is a former director of strategy for David Cameron, who was Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Hilton hosts ""The Next Revolution"", a weekly show for the Fox News Channel which debuted on 4 June 2017. He is a proponent of what he calls ""positive populism"". He spent a year as a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International"
"the party. Bercow did not defect to Labour, but in September 2007, prime minister Gordon Brown announced that Bercow had accepted an advisory post on the Labour government's review of support for children with speech, language and communication special needs. The Conservative Party chairman, Caroline Spelman, confirmed that this appointment was with the consent of the Conservative Party. Bercow had a long-term interest in this topic, as his son Oliver has been diagnosed with autism. In 2008, Bercow was asked by Labour cabinet members Ed Balls and Alan Johnson to produce a substantial review of children and families affected by"
"Lord Randolph Churchill Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895) was a British statesman. Churchill was a Tory radical and coined the term 'Tory democracy'. He inspired a generation of party managers, created the National Union of the Conservative Party, and broke new ground in modern budgetary presentations, attracting admiration and criticism from across the political spectrum. His most acerbic critics resided in his own party among his closest friends; but his disloyalty to Lord Salisbury was the beginning of the end of what should have been a glittering career. His elder son, Winston, wrote a"
"an honorary freeman of the London Borough of Lambeth. In January 1978 he announced he would not stand for parliament again. He collapsed at his home in Holborn, London on 20 February 1978 and died two days later in Westminster Hospital. A youth centre in Lambeth is named after him. He gave a tour of Parliament to a 13-year-old constituent in the 1950s, John Major, sparking a political ambition that led Major to becoming Conservative Prime Minister. Marcus Lipton Marcus Lipton CBE (29 October 1900 – 22 February 1978) was a British Labour Party politician. The son of Benjamin and"
"1947) - Played by Abraham Sofaer; ""The Mudlark"" (US, 1950) - Played by Sir Alec Guinness; ""Disraeli (TV serial)"" (UK-Television, 1978) - Played by Ian McShane; ""Mrs. Brown"" (US, 1997) - Played by Sir Antony Sher Notes References Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles"
"1904 – 1994). His eldest daughter Cecilia Mary (born 1931) married Sir William Dugdale, Warwickshire landowner and former chairman of Aston Villa football club, and is the mother of the documentary filmmaker Joshua Dugdale. His second daughter, Mary Fleur (b. 1934), married Ian Donald Cameron and is the mother of David Cameron, Conservative Party leader from 2005 to 2016, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. He inherited the baronetcy and the family estate at Wasing Place in Berkshire on 8 December 1930 on the death of his father. On 25 February 1924, he was commissioned in"