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Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington was born on 25 May, 1914 in London, United Kingdom, is a British politician and businessman. Discover Toby Low, 1st Baron Aldington's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Occupation Businessman, politician, and Army officer
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 25 May, 1914
Birthday 25 May
Birthplace London, United Kingdom
Date of death 7 December, 2000
Died Place United Kingdom
Nationality Russia

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1914

Brigadier Toby Austin Richard William Low, 1st Baron Aldington, Baron Low, (25 May 1914 – 7 December 2000), known as Austin Richard William Low until he added "Toby" as a forename by deed poll on 10 July 1957, was a British Conservative Party politician and businessman.

He was however best known for his role in Operation Keelhaul, the forced repatriation of Russian, Ukrainian and other prisoners of war who'd collaborated with the Nazis to the Soviet Union where many of them were executed or sent to labor camps.

1934

He joined the Rangers (King's Royal Rifle Corps), a famous London Territorial Infantry Regiment, in 1934 and served in World War II in Greece, Crete, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Italy and Austria, becoming the youngest brigadier in the British Army in 1944, when he became Brigadier General Staff (BGS) of V Corps, commanded first by Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey and then by Lieutenant-General Charles Keightley.

1939

He qualified as a barrister in 1939.

1941

He was appointed to the Distinguished Service Order in 1941, made a Commander of the Legion of Merit (US) and awarded the Croix de Guerre.

1942

He was the son of Colonel Stuart Low, the Chairman of Grindlays Bank, who was killed in the sinking of MV Henry Stanley in 1942, and Lucy Atkin, daughter of the Lord Atkin.

He was educated at Winchester College (where he later became Warden, i.e. chairman of the governing body), and at New College, Oxford where he studied law.

1945

Low stood for Parliament as a Conservative in the 1945 general election, and won the seat of Blackpool North.

1946

He had been a director of the Grindlay family banking company, Grindlays Bank, in 1946, following his father and grandfather.

1947

Aldington married Felicité Ann Araminta MacMichael (died 2012), a daughter of Sir Harold MacMichael, on 10 April 1947.

They had a son, Charles Low, 2nd Baron Aldington, and two daughters, Jane, Lady Roberts (Curator of the Print Room at Windsor Castle and Royal Librarian; married Sir Hugh Roberts), and Lucy Ann Anthea (married Alasdair Laing).

Lady Aldington was Patron of the Jacob Sheep Society.

1951

He served as Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Supply 1951–54 and Minister of State at the Board of Trade from 1954, becoming a Privy Counsellor.

1957

In 1957, he was knighted and became chair of the Select committee on nationalised industry.

1959

In 1959, he became deputy Conservative Party chairman.

1962

In 1962 he was created Baron Aldington, of Bispham in the County Borough of Blackpool, and increased his business interests, serving as the chairman of several companies.

1964

In 1964, Lord Aldington became Chairman of the bank as well as of GEC.

1971

In 1971, he joined the BBC general advisory council, and became chairman of Sun-Alliance and the Port of London Authority.

1972

In 1972, he became co-chairman, with Jack Jones, of the joint special committee on the ports industry.

1977

He became chairman of Westland in 1977.

Lord Aldington was considered a One Nation Conservative and supported British involvement in the European Union.

He continued political activities in the House of Lords, including as chairman of the Lords' select committee on overseas trade.

He was also a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent.

Tolstoy had written several books (Victims of Yalta in 1977, Stalin's Secret War in 1981, The Minister and the Massacres in 1986) about the alleged complicity of British politicians and officers with Stalin's forces in the murder of White Russian exiles from Soviet Rule, Cossacks, Croatian paramilitaries and collaborationist fugitives from Tito, as well as 11,000 Slovenian anti-communist fighters.

Nigel Watts, who was in a business dispute with Sun Alliance, one of Lord Aldington's former companies, used this information to further his own cause, printing 10,000 leaflets about Aldington's role in the matter and circulating them to politicians and other figures.

Tolstoy avoided paying the damages by declaring himself bankrupt, although shortly after Aldington's death he paid £57,000 in costs to Aldington's estate.

1980

After he was accused of war crimes in the late 1980s, he successfully sued his accusers for libel.

1989

In 1989 Lord Aldington initiated and won a record £1.5 million (plus £500,000 costs) in a libel case against Nikolai Tolstoy and Nigel Watts, who had accused him of war crimes in Austria during his involvement in the Repatriation of Cossacks at Lienz, part of Operation Keelhaul at the end of the Second World War.

"In its judgment yesterday in the case of Count Nikolai Tolstoy, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Britain in important respects, finding that the award of £1.5 million levelled against the Count by a jury in 1989 amounted to a violation of his freedom of expression. Parliament will find the implications of this decision difficult to ignore."

Subsequently, allegations were made that Aldington had been materially assisted by friends at the Ministry of Defence, who had suppressed crucial documentation, but Tolstoy and Watts were refused Leave to Appeal on the basis of those findings.

1995

In July 1995, the European Court of Human Rights decided unanimously that the British Government had violated Tolstoy's rights in respect of Article 10 of the Convention on Human Rights, describing the damages as "excessive and not necessary in a democratic society".

This decision referred only to the amount of the damages awarded against him and did not overturn the judgement in the libel action.

The Times commented:

Nigel Watts was jailed for 18 months in April 1995, after repeating the libel that Aldington was a war criminal in a pamphlet.

The sentence was reduced to nine months on appeal.

In June 1995, Watts was released from prison after issuing a public apology to Aldington.

1996

In 1996 the Court of Appeal upheld an order Aldington had obtained that made the lawyers acting for Tolstoy pro bono parties to the case, and thereby jointly liable with Tolstoy for any costs or damages awarded to Aldington.

This order was combined with a requirement that Tolstoy underwrite the cost of Aldington's defence to obtain leave to appeal.

1999

In 1999, when hereditary peers were excluded from the House of Lords by the House of Lords Act 1999, as a hereditary peer of first creation he was granted a life peerage as Baron Low, of Bispham in the County of Lancashire, so that he could remain.