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The Lord Privy Seal (or, more formally, the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal) is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ... 1945 Conservative:
26 July 1945 – 26 October 1951 Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain: The Viscount Jowitt: 27 July 1945 Lord President of the Council: Herbert Morrison: 27 July 1945: also Leader of the House of Commons: The Viscount Addison: 9 March 1951: also Leader of the House of Lords: Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal: Arthur Greenwood: 27 July 1945 The ...
Only Attlee and Churchill remained in the War Cabinet from the formation of the Government of National Unity in May 1940 through to the election in May 1945. Attlee was initially the Lord Privy Seal, before becoming Britain's first ever Deputy Prime Minister in 1942, as well as becoming the Dominions Secretary [27] [70] [page needed] and Lord ...
Marquess Kōichi Kido (木戸 幸一, Kido Kōichi) (July 18, 1889 – April 6, 1977) was a Japanese statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to Emperor Hirohito throughout World War II.
At the outset, Churchill formed a five-man war cabinet which included Chamberlain as Lord President of the Council, Clement Attlee as Lord Privy Seal and later as Deputy Prime Minister, Viscount Halifax as Foreign Secretary, and Arthur Greenwood as a minister without portfolio. Although the original war cabinet was limited to five members, in ...
The greater officers were the Lord High Chancellor, Lord High Treasurer, Lord Privy Seal and Lord Secretary; the lesser officers were the Lord Clerk Register, Lord Advocate, Lord Treasurer-depute and Lord Justice Clerk, with the Lord Clerk Register the only one fixed in precedency. [39] A number of offices ended at, or soon after, the Union of ...
While in the latter post he took part in the Bermuda Conference on the fate of European Jewry [6] and was sworn of the Privy Council in the 1943 New Year Honours. [7] He was then Minister of State, also at the Foreign Office, until 1945, when he served briefly as Minister of Education in the Churchill Caretaker ministry.
Sworn of the Privy Council in 1940, Lord Woolton was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1942. In 1943, Woolton joined the War Cabinet as Minister of Reconstruction, taking charge of the difficult task of planning for post-war Britain and in this role, he appeared on the cover of Time on the issue of 26 March 1945. [11]