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Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne

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Category: History & Society
Born:
July 7, 1941, Gorseinon, South Wales, England (age 82)
Political Affiliation:
Conservative Party
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Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne (born July 7, 1941, Gorseinon, South Wales, England) British politician who was leader of the Conservative Party (2003–05). Howard’s father, Bernat Hecht, was a Jewish Romanian immigrant who settled in England in 1939 and changed his name to Bernard Howard. (Other members of the family remained behind, including Howard’s grandmother, who later died in a Nazi concentration camp.) After graduating from Peterhouse, Cambridge, Howard became a barrister. His ambition, however, was always to become a politician. He stood unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in the 1966 and 1970 general elections. ...(100 of 492 words)

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