Family
Hugh Mackintosh Foot was born in Plymouth on 8 October 1907. He was the son of solicitor and Liberal Party MP Isaac Foot, and brother of the MP Sir Dingle Foot, the life peer Lord John Foot, and Labour Party MP and party leader (1980–83) Michael Foot. "We were proud to be nonconformists and Roundheads" Lord Caradon once wrote of his family. "Oliver Cromwell was our hero and John Milton our poet."
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