Michael Foot AKA Michael Mackintosh Foot Born: 23-Jul-1913 Birthplace: Plymouth, Devon, England Died: 3-Mar-2010 Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Religion: Atheist Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Politician Nationality: England Executive summary: Leader, House of Commons, 1976-79 Father: Isaac Foot (attorney, Liberal MP) Brother: Dingle Mackintosh Foot (MP, b. 24-Aug-1905, d. 18-Jun-1978) Brother: John Foot, Lord Foot (politician, life peer, b. 1909, d. 11-Oct-1999) Brother: Hugh Foot, Lord Caradon (diplomat, life peer, b. 8-Oct-1907, d. 5-Sep-1990) Wife: Jill Craigie (documentary filmmaker, m. 1949, d. 13-Dec-1999)
High School: Leighton Park School, Reading University: Wadham College, Oxford University
UK Leader of the House of Commons (1976-79) Lord President of the Council (1976-79) UK Secretary of State for Employment (1974-76) UK Member of Parliament for Ebbw Vale (1960-92) UK Member of Parliament for Plymouth Devonport (1945-55) London Evening Standard Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Labour Party (UK) Deputy Leader (1976-80), Leader (1980-83)
Author of books:
The Pen and the Sword (1957) Aneurin Bevan (1962-73, 2 vols.) Debts of Honour (1981) Another Heart and Other Pulse (1984) H.G.: The History of Mr. Wells (1985) Loyalists and Loners (1986) Politics of Paradise (1989) Dr. Strangelove, I Presume (1999) The Uncollected Michael Foot (2003) Isaac Foot: A West Country Boy: Apostle of England (2006)
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