Friday 8 June 2018

16) Edwin Duncan Sandys

Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys, CH, PC (1908 – 1987). British politician and minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. Husband of Diana Churchill, daughter of Sir Winston Churchill.

- "A tall, elegantly tailored man with red hair and a notorious temper, he also enjoyed special prominence as the husband of Winston Churchill's eldest daughter, Diana." https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/27/obituaries/lord-duncan-sandys-79-dead-smoothed-way-to-end-of-empire.html


- "I had only seen Sandys once or twice during the War, and remembered nothing about him except his red hair." https://www.cvce.eu/content/publication/2002/4/17/9bfcae37-96f9-4187-83d5-346e9cfda4b1/publishable_en.pdf 



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