Background
Head was the son of Geoffrey Head and Ethel Daisy, daughter of Arthur Flower, and was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Head was the son of Geoffrey Head and Ethel Daisy, daughter of Arthur Flower, and was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Eton College; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
A career soldier, Head was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 15th/19th The King"s Royal Hussars on 30 August 1926. He was awarded the Military Cross (Military Cross) on 20 December 1940. He 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, in the administrations of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden.
He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1951 and in 1960 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Head, of Throope in the County of Wiltshire.
He was later High Commissioner to Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and High Commissioner to Malaysia from 1963 to 1966. Lord Head married Lady Dorothea Louise, daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, on 23 July 1935.
They had four children:
Richard Antony Head, 2nd Viscount Head (b 27 February 1937)
Honorary Teresa Mary Head (b 20 June 1938)
Honorary
Simon Andrew Head (b 11 November 1944)
Josephine Head (b 24 May 1948-1949 October 1949).
38th United Kingdom Parliament. 39th United Kingdom Parliament. 40th United Kingdom Parliament.
41st United Kingdom Parliament.
42nd United Kingdom Parliament.
Head was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Carshalton in 1945.
