Anthony Eden (No Halt Order)

Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (June 12 1897 - January 14, 1977) was a British politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 until 1956.

Achieving rapid promotion as a young Member of Parliament, he became Foreign Secretary aged 38, before resigning in protest at Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy towards Mussolini's Italy. He returned as Foreign Secretary in 1940, and served in that post throughout the Pacific War. In June 1945 he succeeded Halifax as Prime Minister, and led the National government to a fourth successive electoral victory that September.