Ten years ago, a Chancellor of the Exchequer died in office just a month after moving into No 11 Downing Street. He was Iain Macleod - throughout the 1960s the one potential Conservative leader the Labour Party really feared.
Tonight, in the week of the Conservative Party Conference, Anthony Howard looks back on the life and career of the man who as Colonial Secretary turned 'the wind of change' in Africa into a reality. Branded as 'too clever by half', was Macleod too much of the bridge-playing tactician for his own good? Or was he rather a Celtic romantic with whom the Conservative Party never quite felt at ease?
Among those assessing the often controversial record of the greatest Tory orator of modern times are his widow Lady Macleod of Borve, his one-time cabinet colleagues Lord Butler, Lord Boyle and The Rt Hon Enoch Powell, MP, his most formidable white antagonist in Africa Sir Roy Welensky, together with two of his former political opponents at home, The Rt Hon James Callaghan, MP, and Lord Lever.