Word: kentishman
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...traditions of British politics, Edward Heath has no business being where he is today. Some Tory leaders did not go to Eton, but none went to a grammar school on a scholarship, as did the burly Kentishman with the rumbling laugh and the steely blue eyes. Some were born untitled, but none the son of a carpenter, like Ted Heath. Some Tories were chosen leader at an earlier age, but none since Disraeli in 1849 at the age of 45, a mere four years younger than Heath today. By all the odds of British politics, Edward Richard George Heath will...
...Macmillan's constituency, which had voted Labor by 1,851 votes in a 1946 by-election. Shy, shaggy Kentishman Heath immediately captured the Tory matrons' vote. Says one: "When he flashed that smile of his, he won our hearts. From then on, we all called him Teddy among ourselves...
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