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George Edward Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, CH, PC (26 July 1909 – 4 June 1994) was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1957 and 1958.
The author, an engineer and manager, first met Peter Thorneycroft in 1967 when they were both newly appointed as Managing Director and Chairman respectively of Pirelli General, the British arm of the Pirelli Group's world-wide cable sector, of which Stanley Crooks later became CEO.
19 de abr. de 2011 · Citations. Metrics. Reprints & Permissions. Read this article. This article re-assesses the resignation of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Peter Thorneycroft, and his two junior ministers in January 1958 in terms of the importance of this event in the pre-history of Thatcherism.
13 de fev. de 2009 · [But] Peter Thorneycroft is an Australian hero, he is a genuine Australian hero." The hero himself, however, has been keen to point out that despite his solo firefight, he is not totally immune...
About Oral History. Thorneycroft, Peter (Peter George Edward), 1909-1994. (1909-1994) Minister of Aviation (1960-1962); Minister of Defence (1962-1964); Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom (1964). Thorneycroft discusses his interactions with John F. Kennedy [JFK] and JFK’s way of creating organic conversation.
3 de set. de 2020 · The most influential members of the TRC, Quintin Hogg, Hugh Molson and Peter Thorneycroft, imposed some limits on the adaptation of the group’s Conservatism because they rejected laissez-faire individualism, socialism, and the earliest signs of neoliberalism.
Abstract. This chapter offers a new interpretation of the resignation of the Conservative Treasury team of Peter Thorneycroft, Nigel Birch, and Enoch Powell in January 1958, and suggests that this episode, caused by disagreements over inflation, cannot be seen as a ‘rehearsal’ for future debates between ‘Monetarists’ and ‘Keynesians ...
