Eldon Griffiths
 Eldon Griffiths     (editor, politician) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1925-05-25 Wigan, Lancashire, England | |||||||||||||
| Died | 2014-06-03 (Age 89) | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | English | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Emmanuel College (Cambridge) University, Yale University | |||||||||||||
| Member of | Le Cercle | |||||||||||||
| Party | Conservative | |||||||||||||
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Sir Eldon Wylie Griffiths was a British Conservative politician and journalist.
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Background
Griffiths was born on 25 May 1925 in Wigan, Lancashire, UK.[1] His Welsh father was a police sergeant. He attended Ashton Grammar School. After World War II service in the Royal Air Force he gained a double first class degree in history from Emmanuel College (Cambridge) and an MA from Yale University.[2][3]
Career
After university Griffiths worked in the Conservative Research Department and became a journalist and farmer. He was managing editor of Newsweek.
He became the MP for Bury St Edmunds after a by-election in 1964, and represented the seat until he retired in 1992. His Telegraph obituary claimed he was "rangy, articulate, but dour, (Griffiths was) a political loner, and not over-popular on the Tory benches" However it listed many achievements as MP and in other spheres.[4] He served as a junior minister for Environment and Sport during the Edward Heath government of 1970 to 1974. He was a member of the Foreign Affairs select committee.[5]
He also served as parliamentary spokesman for the Police Federation. In 1985, he was made a Knight Bachelor for "political service".[6]
Directorship
Griffiths was a director of one of Gerald Carroll's ill-fated Carroll Group companies.[7]
Deep political connections
Eldon Griffiths attended a 1985 meeting of Le Cercle in Washington D.C.[8]
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Cercle/1985 (Washington) | 7 January 1985 | 10 January 1985 | US Washington DC | 4 day meeting of Le Cercle in Washington exposed after Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference and published it online in 2011 |
References
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/04/sir-eldon-griffiths
- ↑ Eldon Griffiths Obituary in the Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 4 June 2014
- ↑ Eldon Griffith obituary in The Guardian Retrieved 4 June 2014
- ↑ Daily Telegraph, London 4 June 2014
- ↑ http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FKNNK%205
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/50154/page/
- ↑ "SFO looks at 500m fall of Carroll empire", Dominic O'Connell, Sunday Business, 1 October 2000, p. 1.
- ↑ https://isgp-studies.com/Le_Cercle_membership_list
