Biography of Antony Head 1st Viscount Head 1906-1983

On 19th December 1906 Antony Head 1st Viscount Head was born to Geoffrey Head (age 34) and Ethel Daisy Flower.

On 30th August 1926 Antony Head 1st Viscount Head (age 19) was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars. he later joined the Lifeguards. serving through the Second World War and achieving the rank of brigadier.

On 23rd July 1935 Antony Head 1st Viscount Head (age 28) and Dorothea Louise Ashley-Cooper Viscountess Head (age 28) were married. She the daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper 9th Earl of Shaftesbury (age 65) and Constance Grosvenor Countess of Shaftesbury (age 59).

In 1937 [his son] Richard Antony Head 2nd Viscount Head was born to Antony Head 1st Viscount Head (age 30) and [his wife] Dorothea Louise Ashley-Cooper Viscountess Head (age 29).

The London Gazette 35020. War Office, 20th December, 1940. The King has been pleased to approve of the undermentioned awards in recognition of gallant conduct in action with the enemy:-

THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER.

Lieutenant (Temp. Major) PHILIP HARKER NEWMAN, F.R.C.S., Royal Army Medical Corps.

THE MILITARY CROSS.

Captain (Temp. Major) Antony Henry Head (age 34), The Life Guards.

In 1945 Antony Head 1st Viscount Head (age 38) was elected MP Carshalton.

From 1951 to 1956 Antony Head 1st Viscount Head (age 44) served as Secretary of State for War from 1951 to 1956 and as Minister of Defence (with a seat in the cabinet) from 1956 to 1957.

On 22nd November 1955 [his father] Geoffrey Head (age 83) died.

In 1960 Antony Head 1st Viscount Head (age 53) was created 1st Viscount Head of Throope in Wiltshire. [his wife] Dorothea Louise Ashley-Cooper Viscountess Head (age 52) by marriage Viscountess Head of Throope in Wiltshire.

On 29th March 1983 Antony Head 1st Viscount Head (age 76) died. His son [his son] Richard (age 46) succeeded 2nd Viscount Head of Throope in Wiltshire.

In 1987 [his former wife] Dorothea Louise Ashley-Cooper Viscountess Head (age 79) died.