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Hugh Brown

MP and government minister; Born May 18, 1919; Died March 10, 2008. Hugh Brown was a self-effacing yet effective Labour MP and Scottish Office minister, whose proudest moment was a mediating role in the so-called Cod War of 1975-76. When the UK Government refused to recognise a unilateral extension of Icelandic fishing territory, British fishing trawlers had their nets cut by the Icelandic coast guard, while there were several rammings by Icelandic ships and British trawlers, frigates and tugboats.

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MP and government minister; Born May 18, 1919; Died March 10, 2008.

Hugh Brown was a self-effacing yet effective Labour MP and Scottish Office minister, whose proudest moment was a mediating role in the so-called Cod War of 1975-76.