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Duncan Edwin Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys (gesprochen „sands“) CH PC (* 24. Januar 1908; † 26. November 1987) war ein britischer Diplomat und Politiker der Conservative Party. Er diente in einer Zeit der Entkolonialisierung als Minister in aufeinanderfolgenden konservativen Regierungen.
Duncan Edwin Duncan-Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH, PC (/ s æ n d z /; 24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987), was a British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a son-in-law of Winston Churchill and played a key role in promoting European unity after World War II
- 1937–1946
- Conservative
Duncan Sandys was a British politician and statesman who exerted major influence on foreign and domestic policy during mid-20th-century Conservative administrations. The son of a member of Parliament, Sandys was first elected to Parliament as a Conservative in 1935. He became a close ally of his.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
10. Nov. 2017 · Sandys has yet to be the subject of a biography. This chapter presents an overview of his career. Particular attention is given to Sandys’ tenure at the Commonwealth Relations and Colonial Offices, from 1960 to 1964. Sandys had an ambiguous attitude towards the...
- Peter Brooke
- 2018
22. Apr. 2022 · People speculated that the “headless man” was wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill’s son-in-law, Duncan Sandys, as it was reported that only the Minister of Defense had access to a Polaroid ...
- Eloise Barry
27. Nov. 1987 · Lord Duncan-Sandys (pronounced sands) was a leading figure in his country's political affairs for nearly four decades. A tall, elegantly tailored man with red hair and a notorious temper, he...
5. Aug. 2019 · Duncan Sandys was the last of Harold Macmillan’s four Colonial Secretaries who oversaw the dismantling of Britain’s postwar empire and also the last to receive serious biographical study. Philip Murphy’s biography of Alan Lennox-Boyd (1955–9) portrays a Colonial Secretary conservative by disposition but deferential to the ...
