David Owen
Historian, Politician
1938 –
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Who is David Owen?
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen, CH PC FRCP MB BChir is a British politician.
Owen served as British Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979, the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post. In 1981, Owen was one of the "Gang of Four" who left the Labour Party to found the Social Democratic Party. Owen led the SDP from 1983 to 1987, and the continuing SDP from 1988 to 1990. He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher until March 2014, and now sits as an "independent social democrat".
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- Born
- Mar 24, 1938
Plympton - Also known as
- David Anthony Llewellyn Owen
- Lord Owen
- Dr. David Owen
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- King's College London
- Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- St John's College, Cambridge
- Bradfield College
- Lived in
- Plympton
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on July 23, 2013
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