Denis Healey

The Right Honourable The Lord Healey CH MBE PC FRSL
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
In office 4 November 1980 – 2 October 1983
Leader	Michael Foot
Preceded by	Michael Foot
Succeeded by	Roy Hattersley
Shadow Foreign Secretary
In office 8 December 1980 – 13 July 1987
Leader	Michael Foot Neil Kinnock
Preceded by	Peter Shore
Succeeded by	Gerald Kaufman
In office 20 June 1970 – 19 April 1972
Leader	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Sir Alec Douglas-Home
Succeeded by	James Callaghan
In office 11 October 1959 – 2 November 1961
Leader	Hugh Gaitskell
Preceded by	Aneurin Bevan
Succeeded by	Harold Wilson
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 5 March 1974 – 4 May 1979
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson James Callaghan
Preceded by	Anthony Barber
Succeeded by	Sir Geoffrey Howe
Secretary of State for Defence
In office 16 October 1964 – 19 June 1970
Prime Minister	Harold Wilson
Preceded by	Peter Thorneycroft
Succeeded by	The Lord Carrington
Member of Parliament for Leeds East
In office 26 May 1955 – 9 April 1992
Preceded by	Constituency Created
Succeeded by	George Mudie
Member of Parliament for Leeds South East
In office 14 February 1952 – 26 May 1955
Preceded by	James Milner
Succeeded by	Alice Bacon
Personal details
Born	(1917-08-30)30 August 1917 Mottingham, Kent, England
Died	3 October 2015(2015-10-03) (aged 98) Alfriston, East Sussex, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse(s)	Edna Edmunds (m. 1945–2010; her death)
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Military service
Branch/service	British Army • Royal Engineers
Years of service	1940–1945
Rank	Major
Battles/wars	World War II • North African Campaign • Italian Campaign • Battle of Anzio

Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey CH, MBE, PC (30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015) was a British Labour politician. He was Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979.