Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne

Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne (born July 7, 1941, Gorseinon, South Wales, England) is a British politician who was the leader of the Conservative Party (2003–05). Howard’s father, Bernat Hecht, was a Jewish Romanian immigrant who settled in England in 1939 and changed his name to Bernard Howard. (Other members of the family remained behind, including Howard’s grandmother, who later died in a Nazi concentration camp.) After graduating from Peterhouse, Cambridge, Howard became a...