Charles Lovick
The Right Honourable The Lord Lovick PC OBE | |
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |
In office 6 May 1976 – 3 May 1984 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Preceded by | Lord Mountbatten |
Succeeded by | Roy Jenkins |
Leader of the Conservative Party | |
In office 6 February 1975 – 13 September 1984 | |
Preceded by | Edward Heath |
Succeeded by | Peter Walker |
Foreign Secretary | |
In office 18 June 1970 – 10 October 1974 | |
Prime Minister | Edward Heath |
Preceded by | Michael Stewart |
Succeeded by | James Callaghan |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temperal | |
In office 12 June 1993 – 24 December 2008 | |
Member of Parliament for Totnes | |
In office 15 October 1964 – 7 May 1992 | |
Preceded by | Philip Lovick |
Succeeded by | Paget Lovick |
Personal details | |
Born | Charles Paget Lovick 6 January 1917 Salcombe, Devon, England |
Died | 24 December 2008 (aged 91) Boscastle, Cornwall, England |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Valerie Brasdon (m. 1945) |
Children | Annabel ● Marigold ● Paget |
Parents | Philip Lovick Rosalind Paget |
Alma mater | Eton College; Oxford University |
Charles Paget Lovick, Baron Lovick of Dartmouth, PC, OBE (6 January 1917 – 24 December 2008) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1984 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1984. Lovick was a member of the prominent Lovick family. Outside of politics, Lovick was a yachtsman, a cricketer, and an author.