GEOFFREY (BARON HOWE OF ABERAVON) HOWE - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 317221
Sale Price $144.00
Reg. $160.00
GEOFFREY HOWE
Signature of the former British Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary
Signature: "Geoffrey Howe", 6x4¼. Accompanied by unsigned photograph (b/w, 2x1¾). Geoffrey Howe (1926-2015) was a Conservative Member of the British Parliament from 1964 to 1992. He assumed his first Cabinet post, Minister of State for Trade and Industry, under Prime Minister Heath (1972-1974), and vied with Margaret Thatcher in the Conservative Party's leadership election of 1975. When Thatcher became Prime Minister, Howe served throughout her first term as Chancellor of the Exchequer, implementing free-market economic policies similar to Reagan's in the US, but with much greater emphasis on deficit reduction. Following Thatcher's re-election in 1983, he became Foreign Secretary, serving in that office through 1989. In the latter year, after increasingly public disagreements with Thatcher over relations with the European Community, he was moved to the positions of Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council - still powerful positions, but seen as something of a demotion. He received a lifetime peerage as Baron Howe of Aberavon in 1992, becoming very active in his new seat in the House of Lords. He published his memoirs in 1994. Pencil note (unknown hand) on verso. Fine condition.
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