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A Short Biography of Enoch Powell

Author Name:

Enoch Powell

Born As:

John Enoch Powell

Other Names:

Born:

16 Jun 1912

Died:

08 Feb 1998




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Politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet                          
                          
Mother Ellen Mary Breese
Father Albert Enoch Powell
Wife Margaret Pamela Wilson,  two daughters.                          
A member of the Suez Group of MPs, against the removal of British troops from the Suez Canal because such a move would demonstrate, that Britain could no longer maintain a position there and that any claim to the Suez Canal would be illogical. However, after the troops had left in 1954 and the Egyptians nationalised the Canal in 1956, Powell opposed the British attempts to retake the Canal in the Suez War because he thought the British no longer had the resources to be a world power.[                          
Margaret Thatcher refused to offer Powell a Shadow Cabinet place because "he turned his back on his own people" by leaving the Conservative Party exactly 12 months earlier and telling the electorate to vote Labour - 1975.

Powell was reading Ancient Greek by the age of five, learning it from his mother. At the age of 70 he began learning his 12th and final language, Hebrew.