Additional papers of Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth. ca. 1970-ca. 1980.
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Boyle of Handsworth, Edward Boyle, Baron, 1923-1981.
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Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, P.C., C.H., was born in 1923, the eldest child of Sir Edward Boyle, a lawyer and prominent member of the Balkan Committee, and of Beatrice (ne Greig). He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. War service in intelligence at Bletchley Park intervened between his school-days and undergraduate career. He went up to Oxford in 1945 and became president of the Oxford Union Society in 1948. He was elected Conservative M.P. for the Handswo...
