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| Ian Gilmour Ian Gilmour was a barrister, journalist, politician and writer. He edited the Spectator from 1954 to 1959, was a Conservative MP from 1962 to 1992, and was later in the House of Lords. He was Secretary of State for defense in Edward Heath’s government, and Lord Privy Seal and deputy Foreign Secretary at the beginning of Mrs. Thatcher’s. He had long been immersed in the poetry and live of Byron and Shelley, and had been working on ideas for his book, The Making of Poets, for many years. His previous books include Riot, Risings and Revolution, a history of violence in eighteen-century England; Dancing with Dogma, an analysis of Britain under Thatcherism; Britain Can Work, an examination of laissez-faire economics; and The Body Politic, an historical account of the British constitution. Ian Gilmour died in Autumn 2007. |
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