Eden, Robert Anthony (1897–1977)
British Conservative politician. Elected a member of the House of Commons in 1923, he served as under-secretary for foreign affairs and then lord privy seal in 1931–4, and as foreign secretary in 1935–8 and 1940–45. He became foreign secretary and deputy prime minister in the second Churchill government of 1951–5, becoming prime minister after his party’s election victory in 1955. He resigned in January 1957 due to the domestic crisis caused by the Suez conflict.
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