Tony Benn

The Right Honourable Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born April 3, 1925), known as Tony Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British politician regarded as being on the left of the Labour Party. He was instrumental in the creation of the Peerage Act 1963.

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His paternal grandfather was Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet and his father was the 1st Viscount Stansgate; whilst the Wedgwood side of his ancestry connected him to the family of Sir Josiah Wedgwood. But in adult life he has always emphasised that his family were not idle aristocrats but part of a strong, radical dissenting tradition in which enterprise and public (mainly political) service were combined. In order to distance himself from his class origins, in adult life he shortened his name from Anthony Wedgwood Benn to Tony Benn.

The Right Honourable: The Right Honourable (abbreviated "The Rt. Hon.", "The Rt Hon", or "The Right Hon.") is an honorific prefix which, in local contexts, is traditionally applied to certain classes of people in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth Realms....

1925: 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar)....

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