Enoch Powell

Enoch Powell (1912–1998) was a British politician, classical scholar, and writer. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a professor of Greek at the University of Sydney before serving in the British Army during the Second World War. Powell entered Parliament as Conservative MP for Wolverhampton South West (1950–1974) and held ministerial office, including Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Minister of Health. He later sat as Ulster Unionist MP for South Down (1974–1987). Powell is best known for his 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech, which warned against large-scale immigration and became a defining, controversial moment in postwar British politics.