Classical scholar, poet, brigadier and politician
1930–1933 Trinity College, Cambridge
1937 appointed Professor of Greek at Sydney University
1939 joins the army as a private
1941 posted to Cairo as a lieutenant
1942 promoted lieutenant-colonel
1943 posted to India
1950–1974 Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West
1955–1957 Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government
1957–1958 Financial Secretary to the Treasury
1960–1963 Minister of Health
1965 ran against Edward Heath for leadership of Conservative Party
1968 made a controversial speech in Birmingham (a.k.a. "Rivers of Blood Speech"), calling for an end to New-Commonwealth immigration
1974 left the Conservative Party because it had taken the UK into the EEC
1974–1987 Ulster Unionist MP for South Down
1994 published his translation of St. Matthew's Gospel
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