What is Geoffrey Howe?
[[File:Geoffrey Howe.jpg|thumb|right|Howe in 2003]] '''Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon''', [[Order of the Companions of Honour|CH]], [[Queen's Counsel|QC]], [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|PC]] (20 December 1926 &ndash; 9 October 2015) was a [[British people|British]] [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[politician]]. Howe was born in [[Port Talbot]], [[Wales]]. He read Law at [[Trinity Hall, Cambridge]] and had a career as a [[lawyer]] before becoming a [[Member of Parliament]]. In 1953, he married [[Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote|Elspeth Howe]]. He was MP for Bebington from 1964-1966, for Reigate from 1970-1974 and for East Surrey from 1974-1992. He was [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] from 1979-1983 and was [[Foreign Secretary]] from 1983-1989. He was made a [[life peer]] in 1992. He was close friends with [[Denis Healey]]. Healey died a few days before Howe. Howe died of a [[heart attack]] in [[Warwickshire]], [[England]] at the age of 88.<ref name=death>{{cite news|title=Ex-Tory chancellor Lord Geoffrey Howe dies aged 88|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34495827|accessdate=10 October 2015|work=BBC News|date=10 October 2015}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} == Other websites == *[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/people/mr-geoffrey-howe Hansard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306073523/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/people/mr-geoffrey-howe |date=2012-03-06 }} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Howe, Geoffrey}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge]] [[Category:English King's Counsel]] [[Category:Chancellors of the Exchequer]] [[Category:Deputy Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom]] <!--[[Category:Disease-related deaths in Warwickshire]]--> [[Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs]] [[Category:Members of the British House of Commons for English constituencies]] [[Category:People from Port Talbot]] [[Category:Politicians from Glamorgan]] [[Category:UK MPs 1964–1966]] [[