Short answers, pulled from the story.
James Harold Wilson was born on the 11th of March 1916 in the mill town of Huddersfield, Yorkshire. He grew up in a family where politics was a way of life and visited London at eight years old to stand on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street.
Harold Wilson launched the bonfire of controls to dismantle thousands of wartime regulations and remove the need for over 200,000 licenses and permits by November 1948. This campaign ended rationing on potatoes, bread, and jam while removing controls on shoes and clothing to promote peacetime prosperity.
Harold Wilson's government passed the Race Relations Act 1965 and the Murder Abolition of Death Penalty Act 1965 to address racial discrimination and abolish capital punishment. The Sexual Offences Act 1967 partially decriminalized male homosexuality and the Abortion Act 1967 legalized abortion, while the Theatres Act 1968 abolished theatre censorship.
Harold Wilson resisted devaluation until market pressures forced the government to devalue the pound by 14% in November 1967. He had previously assured listeners that the pound in their pocket had not lost its value, a statement that was heavily criticized after the devaluation.
Harold Wilson resigned as Prime Minister on the 16th of March 1976, taking effect on the 5th of April. His decision was influenced by colon cancer detected by his doctor and early-onset Alzheimer's disease that caused his memory and concentration to fail dramatically.
Harold Wilson was granted a life peerage as Baron Wilson of Rievaulx after leaving the House of Commons before the 1983 general election. He suffered from advancing Alzheimer's-related dementia in retirement and died on the 24th of May 1995.