| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Viscount Head | |
| Order1: | Secretary of State for War |
| Term Start1: | 31 October 1951 |
| Term End1: | 18 October 1956 |
| Monarch1: | George VI Elizabeth II |
| Primeminister1: | Sir Winston Churchill Sir Anthony Eden |
| Predecessor1: | John Strachey |
| Successor1: | John Hare |
| Order2: | Minister of Defence |
| Term Start2: | 18 October 1956 |
| Term End2: | 9 January 1957 |
| Monarch2: | Elizabeth II |
| Primeminister2: | Sir Anthony Eden |
| Predecessor2: | Sir Walter Monckton |
| Successor2: | Duncan Sandys |
| Death Date: | (aged 76) |
| Nationality: | British |
| Spouse: | Lady Dorothea Ashley-Cooper |
Antony Henry Head, 1st Viscount Head, (19 December 1906 – 29 March 1983) was a British soldier, Conservative politician and diplomat.
Head was the son of Geoffrey Head and Ethel Daisy, daughter of Arthur Flower. He was educated at Ludgrove School,[1] Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
A career soldier, Head was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars on 30 August 1926. He later joined the Life Guards, serving through the Second World War and achieving the rank of brigadier. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) on 20 December 1940.
Head was elected Conservative MP for Carshalton in 1945. He served as Secretary of State for War from 1951 to 1956 and as Minister of Defence (with a seat in the cabinet) from 1956 to 1957,[2] in the administrations of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1951 and in 1960 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Head, of Throope in the County of Wiltshire. He was later High Commissioner to Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and High Commissioner to Malaysia from 1963 to 1966. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 1961 New Year Honours and promoted to be Knight Grand Cross (GCMG) in 1963.
Lord Head married Lady Dorothea Louise (29 April 1907 – 1987), daughter of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, on 23 July 1935. They had four children:
Lord Head died in March 1983, aged 76, and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his eldest son, Richard.
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| Crest: | A unicorn's head couped Sable armed and crined Or between two arrows erect points downward of the last. |
| Supporters: | On either side a Staffordshire terrier Sable gorged with a dog collar Or. |
| Motto: | Study Quiet [3] |