Whitelaw of Penrith in Cumbria, William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, Viscount

Whitelaw of Penrith in Cumbria, William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, Viscount
▪ 2000

      British politician who was a longtime Tory MP (1955–83) and Cabinet minister, including noteworthy stints as the first secretary of state for Northern Ireland (1972–73) and home secretary (1979–83); he was deputy leader of the Conservative Party (1975–91) and a key aide to Prime Ministers Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, the latter of whom had defeated him in his bid for party leadership in 1975. Whitelaw was made a Companion of Honour in 1974 and was awarded a hereditary peerage in 1983, after which he served as the Conservative Party leader in the House of Lords until he retired because of ill health in 1988 (b. June 28, 1918, Edinburgh, Scot.—d. July 1, 1999, Penrith, Cumbria, Eng.).

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