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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Chapters: People from Alston, Cumbria, People from Kirkby Stephen, People from Penrith, Cumbria, William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, Liz Blackman, Ken Kearney, Jonny Allan, Richard Tomlinson, Helen Skelton, Stephen Hindmarch, Robert Beatham, Ben Chapman, Joseph Clement, John Percival, Bernard Gilpin, Lewis Guy, Jules De Martino, Esme Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Penrith, Richard Ellwood, Gary Lockerbie, Danny Grainger, Richard Hutton, Tim Parkin, Edmund Gibson, Jacob Thompson, John Mill, Charles Graham Robertson, Edmund Beswick, Joe Maiden, Angela Lonsdale, Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson, John Langhorne, Richard Prokas, Dale Iniff, Richard Burn, Henry Hodgson, Robert Howard Hutton, Fiona Reynolds, Bert Foord, Vince Peart, Millican Dalton, Peter Graham, Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton, Carola Ivena Meikle. Excerpt: William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw KT, CH, MC, PC, DL (28 June 1918 - 1 July 1999), often known as Willie Whitelaw, was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister. Whitelaw was born in Nairn, in northeast Scotland. He never knew his father, who was killed in the First World War when he was a baby. He was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won a blue for golf and joined the Officer Training Corps. By chance he was in a summer camp in 1939 on the outbreak of the Second World War and was granted a regular, not wartime, commission in the British Army, in the Scots Guards, later serving in the 6th Guards Tank Brigade, a separate unit from the Guards Armoured Division. He commanded Churchill tanks in Normandy during the Second World War and during Operation Bluecoat in late July 1944, his was the first Allied unit to encounter German Jagdpanther tank destroyers, being attacked by three out of the twelve of these vehicles which were in Normandy. The battalion second-in-command was killed when his tank was hit in front of Whitelaw's eyes and Whitelaw succeeded to this position, holding it - with the rank of Major - throughout the advance through the Netherlands into Germany and until the end of the war. He was awarded the Military Cross for his actions at Caumont; a photograph of Field-Marshal Bernard Montgomery pinning the medal to his chest appears in his memoirs. After the end of the war in Europe, Whitelaw's unit was to have taken part in the invasion of Japan but the Pacific War ended before this. Instead he was posted to Palestine, before leaving the army in 1946 to take care of the family estates which he had inherited on the death of his great uncle. After early defeats as a candidate for the constituency of East Dunbartonshire, he became Member of Parliament (MP) for Penrith and the Border at the 1955 general