Eldon Griffiths

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Person.png Eldon Griffiths   IMDBRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(editor, politician)
Born1925-05-25
Wigan, Lancashire, England
Died2014-06-03 (Age 89)
NationalityEnglish
Alma materEmmanuel College (Cambridge) University, Yale University
Member ofLe Cercle
PartyConservative

Sir Eldon Wylie Griffiths was a British Conservative politician and journalist.

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

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Le Cercle/1985 (Washington)7 January 198510 January 1985US
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
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