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John Foot, Baron Foot

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He served as Chairman of the UK Immigrants Advisory Service from 1970 to 1978 where he did not hesitate to criticise the Wilson Government for the inadequate fulfilment of their pledges to the persecuted
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in 1931, following in the steps of his elder brother Dingle (1928) and preceding his younger brother Michael (1933). After graduation he joined the family law firm before serving in the
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Foot was considered by brother Michael as the best orator and the "ablest member of the family". He first stood as a Liberal candidate in a 1934
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on both occasions. He remained in the Liberal Party during the long period of its post-war decline and was subsequently made a
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Or on a chevron engrailed Sable between three lions gambs erect and erased Gules three wheels Or.
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He married an American, Anne (Bailey Farr) in 1936 and they had a son and a daughter.
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against the expansionist ambitions of Plymouth Council. He was a patron of
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He died aged 90 on 11 October 1999, survived by his wife and children.
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Perching on a tower Sable supported by two lions' gambs erect Gules.
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law firm of Foot and Bowden. Isaac was also an active member of the
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of Plymouth after the war. His elder siblings were barrister
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John Foot
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The Right Honourable

Callington
Liberal Democrats
Liberal
Isaac Foot
Dingle Foot
The Lord Caradon
Michael Foot
Paul Foot
Sarah Foot
Oliver Foot
Alma mater
Balliol College, Oxford
British Army
43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division
21st Army Group
World War II
Liberal
Life Peer
Callington
Cornwall
Isaac Foot
Plymouth

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