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Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s.
The Gandhi–Irwin Pact was a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, on 5 March 1931 before the Second Round Table Conference in London. [1] Before this, Irwin , the Viceroy, had announced in October 1929 a vague offer of ' dominion status ' for India in an unspecified future and a Round Table Conference ...
22 December 1925 – 3 April 1926: The Rt. Hon. The 1st Baron Irwin PC [2] 3 April 1926 – 18 April 1931: His Excellency The Rt. Hon. The Lord Irwin PC, Viceroy and Governor-General of India [3] 18 April 1931 – 19 January 1934: The Rt. Hon. The Lord Irwin PC; 19 January 1934 – December 1940: The Rt. Hon. The 3rd Viscount Halifax PC
Gandhi expected to discuss India's independence, while the British side focused on the Indian princes and Indian minorities rather than on a transfer of power. Lord Irwin's successor, Lord Willingdon, took a hard line against India as an independent nation, began a new campaign of controlling and subduing the nationalist movement. Gandhi was ...
Baron Irwin Earl of Halifax: Hon. Charles Wood 1870–1890: Hon. Francis Wood 1871–1889: Hon. Henry Wood 1879–1886: Edward Wood 1st Baron Irwin 3rd Viscount Halifax 1st Earl of Halifax 1881–1959: Charles Wood 2nd Earl of Halifax 1912–1980: Peter Wood 3rd Earl of Halifax born 1944: James Wood Lord Irwin born 1977: Hon. Rex Wood born 2010
E. F. L. Wood, Lord Irwin (1881–1959) 3 April 1926 18 April 1931 Simon Commission (1928) Nehru Report (1928) Death of Lala Lajpat Rai (1928) Fourteen Points of Jinnah (1929) Purna Swaraj declaration (1929) Meerut Conspiracy Case (1929) Bombing in Central Legislative Assembly by Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt (8 April 1929)
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The Earl and Countess of Halifax – Charles and Camilla Wood, 1976. In 1976, Lord Halifax (then Lord Irwin) (who had once been minded for a potential husband of Princess Anne) married Camilla Younger, of the Scottish brewing family, former wife of Richard Parker Bowles (married in 1973 and divorced in 1976), a younger brother of Andrew Parker Bowles, first husband of Queen Camilla.