1. Antony Lambton was a cousin of Alec Douglas-Home, who was Prime Minister for a year from 1963 to 1964.
18 Facts About Antony Lambton
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Antony Lambton was born in Compton, Sussex, the second son of Diana Mary and John Antony Lambton, 5th Earl of Durham.
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Antony Lambton grew up on the family estates centred around Lambton Castle near Washington in County Durham, actually living at the nearby Biddick Hall.
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Antony Lambton was educated at Harrow School and served in the Royal Hampshire Regiment during the Second World War, before being invalided out.
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Antony Lambton then did war work in a Wallsend factory.
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On 10 August 1942, Antony Lambton married Belinda Bridget "Bindy" Blew-Jones.
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Antony Lambton was the daughter of Major Douglas Holden Blew-Jones and his wife Violet Hilda Margaret Birkin, sister of Freda Dudley Ward.
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Antony Lambton first stood for Parliament at the 1945 general election in the safe Labour seat of Chester-le-Street, then Bishop Auckland in 1950.
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Antony Lambton was elected to Durham City Council and to Durham County Council in 1947, serving for two years.
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Antony Lambton was elected Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1951, where he served until 1973.
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In 1970, Antony Lambton was made a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence.
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Antony Lambton succeeded to the Earldom of Durham upon his father's death on 4 February 1970 but disclaimed it on 23 February to continue as an MP and Government Minister.
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Antony Lambton stated that he had never taken his red state boxes of government documents with him when he visited Norma Levy.
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Later, Antony Lambton stated that his sense of "the futility of the job" and lack of demanding tasks as a junior minister were reasons he went to prostitutes.
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Finally, Antony Lambton claimed that his judgment was faulty when he went to the prostitutes due to his obsession with the battle over the use of an aristocratic title that had been used by his father; Antony Lambton claimed that he sought to soothe this obsession by engaging in activities such as gardening and debauchery.
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Antony Lambton never divorced his wife Bindy, who died in 2003.
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In 1991, Antony Lambton made an extended appearance on the TV discussion programme After Dark, chaired by Helena Kennedy, alongside Duncan Campbell, Jane Moore, Clare Short, Anthony Howard and others.
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On 30 December 2006, Antony Lambton died in hospital in Siena, Italy.