Author: John Enoch Powell
Title: John Enoch Powell
Description: London: House of Commons, 1978. Original handwritten note signed by John Enoch Powell on a black and white photograph card. Very Good. Scarce. John Enoch Powell MBE (16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998) was a British politician, scholar and writer. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton South West for the Conservative Party from 1950 to February 1974 and as MP for South Down for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from October 1974 to 1987. He was Minister of Health from 1960 to 1963 in the second Macmillan ministry and was Shadow Secretary of State for Defence from 1965 to 1968 in the Shadow Cabinet of Ted Heath. Before entering politics, Powell was a classical scholar and a brigadier, having served during the Second World War. As a writer, Powell wrote both poetry and books on classical and political subjects. His views on immigration, which are still of note contemporarily, earned him enduring notoriety. .

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