Robert Carr
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| honorific-prefix = <small>The Right Honourable</small>,<br>
| name=Leonard Robert Carr
| honorific-suffix =<br><small>Baron Carr of Hadley,<br>[[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]]</small>
| order=[[Secretary of State for Employment]]
| term_start=[[20 June]] [[1970]]
| term_end=[[7 April]] [[1972]]
| primeminister=[[Edward Heath]]
| predecessor=[[Barbara Castle]]
| successor=[[Maurice Macmillan]]
| order2=[[Leader of the House of Commons]]<br>&<br>[[Lord President of the Council]]
| term_start2=[[7 April]]
| term_end2=[[5 November]] [[1972]]
| primeminister2=[[Edward Heath]]
| predecessor2= [[William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw|William Whitelaw]]
| successor2=[[James Prior|Jim Prior]]
| order3=[[Home Secretary]]
| term_start3=[[18 July]] [[1972]]
| term_end3=[[4 March]] [[1974]]
| primeminister3=[[Edward Heath]]
| predecessor3=[[Reginald Maudling]]
| successor3=[[Roy Jenkins]]
| alma_mater =[[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]]
| birth_date ={{birth date and age|1916|11|11|df=y}}
| party=[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
}}
'''Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, PC''' (born [[11 November]] [[1916]]) is a British [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician.
Robert Carr was educated at [[Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge]] where he read [[Natural science|Natural Sciences]], graduating in [[1938]].
He was elected [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Mitcham (UK Parliament constituency)|Mitcham]] in [[1950]] and served there until [[1974]] when the seat was merged and he moved to [[Carshalton (UK Parliament constituency)|Carshalton]]. In [[Edward Heath]]'s government he served as [[Secretary of State for Employment]] and was responsible for the [[Industrial Relations Act 1971]], which balanced the introduction of compensation for unfair dismissal with curbs on the freedom to [[Strike action|strike]] and the virual abolition of [[closed shop]] agreements.
In [[1971]] he escaped injury when the [[Angry Brigade]] anarchist group exploded two bombs outside his house [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/12/newsid_2523000/2523465.stm]. More than thirty years later a member of the group issued a public apology to Carr, and sent him a Christmas card.[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,644062,00.html]
In [[1972]] he served a brief spell as [[Lord President of the Council]] and was then appointed [[Home Secretary]] after the resignation of [[Reginald Maudling]].
He was created a [[Life peer]] as '''Baron Carr of Hadley''', of [[Monken Hadley]], [[North London]], in [[1976]].
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| title = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Mitcham (UK Parliament constituency)|Mitcham]]
| years = [[United Kingdom general election, 1950|1950]]–[[United Kingdom general election, February 1974|February 1974]]
| before = [[Thomas Braddock]]
| after = ''(constituency abolished)''
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| title = [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Carshalton (UK Parliament constituency)|Carshalton]]
| years = [[United Kingdom general election, February 1974|February 1974]]–[[Carshalton by-election, 1976|1976]]
| before = [[Walter Elliot (English politician)|Walter Elliot]]
| after = [[Nigel Forman]]
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| title = [[Secretary of State for Employment]]
| years = 1970–1972
| before = [[Barbara Castle]]
| after = [[Maurice Macmillan]]
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| title1 = [[Lord President of the Council]]
| title2 = [[Leader of the House of Commons]]
| years1 = 1972
| years2 = 1972
| before = [[William Whitelaw]]
| after = [[James Prior]]
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| title = [[Secretary of State for the Home Department|Home Secretary]]
| years = 1972–1974
| before = [[Reginald Maudling]]
| after = [[Roy Jenkins]]
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