Autographs of Edward Heath
Sir Edward Richard George Heath (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath also served for 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001. Outside politics, Heath was a yachtsman, a musician, and an author.
Born in Broadstairs, Kent, Heath was the son of a chambermaid and carpenter. He attended Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate, Kent, and became a leader within student politics while studying at Balliol College at the University of Oxford. During World War II, Heath served as an officer in the Royal Artillery. He worked briefly in the Civil Service, but resigned in order to stand for Parliament, and was elected for Bexley at the 1950 election. He was promoted to become Chief Whip by Anthony Eden in 1955, and in 1959 was appointed to the Cabinet by Harold Macmillan as Minister of Labour. He later held the role of Lord Privy Seal and in 1963, was made President of the Board of Trade by Alec Douglas-Home. After the Conservatives were defeated at the 1964 election, Heath was elected as Leader of the Conservative Party in 1965, becoming Leader of the Opposition. Although he led the Conservatives to a landslide defeat at the 1966 election, he remained in the leadership, and at the 1970 election led his party to an unexpected victory.
During his time as prime minister, Heath oversaw the decimalisation of British coinage in 1971, and in 1972 he led the reformation of local government, significantly reducing the number of local authorities and creating several new metropolitan counties, much of which remains to this day. A strong supporter of British membership of the European Economic Community (EEC), Heath's "finest hour" came in 1973, when he led the United Kingdom into membership of what would later become the European Union. However, his premiership also coincided with the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, with his approval of internment without trial and subsequent suspension of the Stormont Parliament seeing the imposition of direct British rule. Unofficial talks with Provisional Irish Republican Army delegates were unsuccessful, as was the Sunningdale Agreement of 1973, which led the MPs of the Ulster Unionist Party to withdraw from the Conservative whip. Heath also tried to reform British trade unionism with the Industrial Relations Act, and hoped to deregulate the economy and make a transfer from direct to indirect taxation, such as with the introduction of value-added tax in 1973. However, a miners' strike at the start of 1974 severely damaged the Government, causing the implementation of the Three-Day Week to conserve energy. Attempting to resolve the situation, Heath called an election for February 1974, attempting to obtain a mandate to face down the miners' wage demands, but this instead resulted in a hung parliament, with the Conservatives losing their majority. Despite gaining fewer votes, the Labour Party won four more seats, and Heath resigned as Prime Minister on 4 March after talks with the Liberal Party to form a coalition government were unsuccessful.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Edward Heath (Signed letter by Prime Minister Edward Heath on Downing Street notepaper) was sold in March 2023 for £400.00 while the cheapest item (Signed copy of Edward Heath (Ted Heath) autobigraphy ‘ The Course of My Life’) found a new owner for £0.99 in March 2023. The month with the most items sold (16) was November 2025 with an average selling price of £18.84 for an autographed item of Edward Heath. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2025 with £107.31 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was January 2022. In average, an autographed item from Edward Heath is worth £11.84.
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Latest News about Edward Heath
Member of Edward Heath's government boasted he could cover up a 'scandal involvi (07/07/2014): Tim Fortescue, who was a whip in Edward Heath's government between 1970 and 1973, made the boast in a 1995 BBC documentary Westminster's Secret Service.Edward Heath: The prime minister other Tories want erased from history resurface (18/05/2014): Sir Edward Heath, a Tory Prime Minister David Cameron would love to see erased from history, is enjoying a last laugh from beyond the grave. The current Conservative leader shuns the former PM as a wicked uncle whose name must never be uttered in public. 
Sir Edward Heath's home opens to the public (23/03/2014): The public will be able to view the only residence of a British Prime Minister which remains as it was when he was alive when Sir Edward Heath's Arundell's home opens on Monday
