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John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (31 May 1938 – 20 November 2024) was a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and as First Secretary of State from 2001 to 2007.
Of the three Prescott children, only John failed the 11-plus for a grammar school. The disappointment left a scar. He left his local secondary modern school in Ellesmere Port at the age of 15 ...
John Prescott: The Labour firebrand who became Tony Blair’s vital sidekick. 07:40, Alex Croft. A highlight of the lacklustre 2001 general election campaign was the “Prescott punch”.
King Charles and Sir Tony Blair led tributes to former deputy prime minister John Prescott, who has died at the age of 86 after battling Alzheimer’s. ... Sir Tony wrote in his memoirs how ...
Jonathan James Bush (May 6, 1931 – May 5, 2021) was an American banker. Bush was the fourth child and third son of U. S. Senator Prescott Bush and his wife Dorothy Bush. . Through his brother, President George H. W. Bush, he was an uncle of President George W. Bush and former Florida governor Jeb B
William Henry Trotter “Bucky” Bush, CStJ (July 14, 1938 – February 27, 2018) was an American banker and businessman. A scion of the Bush family, he was the youngest son of US Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush, the youngest brother of former President George H. W. Bush, and an uncle of former President George W. Bush and former Florida governor Jeb Bush.
John Prescott's achievements were "extraordinary", said former Prime Minister Tony Blair at his funeral. Delivering his eulogy at Hull Minster on Thursday, Blair said Prescott was a "complicated ...
Prescott was born in Groton, Massachusetts to Benjamin Prescott (1696–1738) and Abigail Oliver Prescott (1697–1765). He married Abigail Hale (1733–1821) on April 13, 1758, and they had one child, who was named William Prescott Jr.