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Anthony Eden
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC, was a British Conservative politician who served three periods as Foreign Secretary and then a relatively brief term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister in 1955 and immediately called a general election, at which he increased the Conservative majority from seventeen to sixty. He also oversaw the lowest unemployment rates since the end of World War II.
However, Eden's worldwide reputation as an opponent of appeasement and a skilled diplomat was overshadowed in 1956 when the United States refused to support the Anglo-French military response to the Suez Crisis, which critics across party lines regarded as an historic setback for British foreign policy, signalling the end of British predominance in the Middle East. Most historians argue that he made a series of blunders, especially not realising the depth of U.S. opposition to military action.
Two months after ordering an end to the Suez operation, he resigned as Prime Minister on grounds of ill health and because he was widely suspected of having misled the House of Commons over the degree of "collusion" with France and Israel.

Born 12 June 1897 in Rushyford, County Durham, England
Died 14 January 1977 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

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