Sir Robert Anthony Eden (1897-1977) is a British Politician . He will be Foreign Minister with three recoveries, then preserving Prime Minister from April 7th, 1955 to January 9th, 1957. He resigned shortly after the crisis of Suez, and will be high with the peerage under the name of Count d' Avon in 1961.

Political first steps

Sir Robert Anthony Eden, First Count d' Avon was born the June 12th 1897 in Bishop Auckland, county of Durham.

It made its studies with the Collège of Eton then to Christ Church College (Oxford) where it studies the Eastern languages. It gives up a military career because of a bad sight but succeeds in engaging in 1917. Second lieutenant with the King Royal Files Body , it receives the Military Cross on June 3rd, 1917 (battles of the Sum).

Preserving deputy since 1923 (for the district of Warwick and Lemington), he is under-secretary of state to the Foreign affairs of 1931 to 1933. Named with the Private Council ( PC ) of the king in June 1934, it represents Great Britain near the Société of the Nations (SDN) in 1934 in the government of Stanley Baldwin. It is named Foreign Minister in December 1935. Partisan of an attitude of firmness vis-a-vis the dictatorships, it resigns in February 1938 and approaches Winston Churchill by denouncing the policy of Neville Chamberlain and the signature of the Accords of Munich. Minister for the war in 1940, then secretary with the Foreign affairs of at the end of 1940 to 1945 in the cabinet of Churchill, it reinforces the bonds with the allies and supports the general de Gaulle.

De Gaulle paid this nice homage to him: “ This diplomat, entirely devoted to the interests of its country, did not scorn those of the others and remained concerned of international morals in the middle of cynical brutalities of its time ” (Memories of war, T.I, p. 198).

Ministerial career

After the victory of the members of the Labor Party to the elections of 1945, he becomes chief of the conservative opposition. Appointed Foreign Minister in 1951, at the time it return to the capacity of Churchill, it succeeds to him the station of Prime Minister on April 12th, 1955. It is decorated about the Jumper ( KG ) on October 20th, 1954. In November 1956, dividing same the anlyse as Guy Mollet on the nationalization by Nasser of the Suez Canal, it engages the United Kingdom in the military forwarding of Suez at the sides of France, but must put an end to the operations under the pressure of the Americans. January 9th, 1957, it withdraws political life for health reasons and is replaced by Harold Macmillan. It is devoted then to the writing. July 12th, 1961, it is made Vicomte Eden and Count d' Avon.

Eden was chancellor of the University of Birmingham of 1945 to 1957. He spoke French perfectly as well as the Persan one, Arabic, German and Russian. He had positive ratios with the Général de Gaulle during the war and always defended it in front of Churchill and - especially in front of Roosevelt. It incarnated to perfection the British gentleman by his distinguished pace (costumes, hat and umbrella…).

His/her Simon son was killed during the last days of the war while his/her son Nicholas (1930-1985) was minister of Margaret Thatcher and died prematurely of the AIDS. He divorced his first Béatrice wife who had given him two children and married in 1952 a niece of Churchill, Clarissa (born in 1920).

He is deceased the January 14th 1977 with Salisbury.

Anthony Eden is the author of Mémoires , Plon 1960, the author deals with Korea, of Indo-China, of Trieste, of the Middle East, of European construction and the business of Suez.

External bonds

• Biography on the site of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Simple: Anthony Eden

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