Anthony Eden

He was portrayed by Anthony Calf in the original production of the play "Never So Good", by Howard Brenton , which premiered at the National Theatre, London, UK in March 2008.

Son Nicholas was a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's government in 1983 and died of AIDS in 1985 and the noble titles became extinct.

In a television interview in 1966 he called on the United States to halt its bombing of North Vietnam and to concentrate on developing a peace plan "that might conceivably be acceptable to Hanoi.".

In 1959, an American Magazine paid him $300,000 for an excerpt from his memoir, The Memoirs of Sir Anthony Eden, which Houghton Mifflin published the following year.

His premiership ended when the United States strongly opposed the Anglo-French-Israeli military intervention in Egypt during the Suez Crisis in November 1956. The incident is widely regarded as the end of the UK's role as a superpower, although in reality this had happened during World War II.

British foreign secretary (1935-1938, 1940-1945, 1951-1955). British prime minister (1955-1957).

Won the Military Cross, became a Privy Councillor in 1934, a Knight of the Garter in 1954 and the 1st Earl of Avon in 1961

Anthony Eden was born on June 12, 1897 in Windlestone, Durham, England as Robert Anthony Eden. He was married to Clarissa Spencer-Churchill and Beatrice Beckett.