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Duncan Smith uses the name Iain Duncan Smith and is commonly referred to as IDS. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of the World War II RAF ace Group Captain W. G. G. Duncan SmithGroup Captain W. Duncan Smith ( May 28, 1914 December 11, 1996) was a World War II air ace. Smithy" was responsible for 19 confirmed kills in aerial combat. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and Bar and the Distinguished Flying Cross and two by his wife Pamela, a ballerinaBallet is the name given to a specfic dance form and technique. Dance works choreographed using this techique are called ballets and may include; dance, mime, acting and music ( orchestral and sung). Ballets can be performed alone or as part of an opera., whom he married in 1946. Pamela's maternal grandmother was Ellen Oshey, a JapanJapan (, Nippon/Nihon literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido , Honshese woman. Iain Duncan Smith is therefore one-eighth Japanese. He is also a distant relative of George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw ( July 26, 1856- November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1925. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London during the 1870s to embark on his literary career. He wrote five novels, all of which we, the playwright and pioneer socialist.
Duncan Smith was educated at HMS ConwayHMS Conway was a naval training school or " school ship", founded in 1859 and housed for most of its life aboard a 19th-century wooden battleship. The ship was originally stationed on the Mersey near Liverpool, then moved to the Menai Straits during World, a navalThe Royal Navy is the navy of the United Kingdom. It operates a number of aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates, fifteen nuclear submarines, and various other ships, as well as aircraft and Britain's amphibious forces, the Royal Marines. The Royal Navy training school on the isle of AngleseyAnglesey or Anglesea ( Welsh: Ynys Mon pronounced "Oh-niece Moan"), is an island and county off the northwest coast of Wales. It is separated from the mainland by a narrow stretch of water called the Menai Strait. It is connected to the mainland by two br, where he played fly-half alongside Clive Woodward at centre, and later at Sandhurst military college. He then joined the Scots Guards in 1975, serving for six years including a spell in (then) Rhodesia and in Northern Ireland.
On leaving the Guards he joined the Conservative Party and also began to work for GEC in 1981. He married Elizabeth "Betsy" Fremantle, daughter of the 5th Baron Cottesloe, in 1982. He fought his first electoral contest in 1987 and in 1992 he stood for his current seat ( Chingford and Woodford Green ), succeeding the retiring Norman Tebbit.