Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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Emerging from a politically engaged family in Westminster, he received private schooling at Westminster School before embarking on a parliamentary career. First elected for Bristol South East in 1950, he later inherited a peerage that temporarily barred him from the Commons, prompting a successful campaign for the Peerage Act 1963 which allowed him to renounce the title. His ministerial service sp…
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