Powell, (John) Enoch 
1912 - . 
British Conservative politician. 

He was minister of health 1960-63, and contested the party leadership 1965. In 1968 he made a speech against immigration that led to his dismissal from the shadow cabinet. He resigned from the party 1974, and was Official Unionist Party member for South Down, Northern Ireland 1974-87. Brought up as a prodigy, he studied Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and became a Fellow 1934. He was professor of Greek at the University of Sydney, Australia 1937-39 when he resigned to enter the British army, becoming its youngest brigadier 1944 at the age of 32. At the end of World War II he joined the Conservative Party Research department. He was an MP for Wolverhampton from 1950 and subsequently a member of the cabinet. Declining to stand in the Feb 1974 election, he attacked the Heath government and resigned.