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Since the premiership of Clement Attlee, the position of Lord Privy Seal has frequently been combined with that of leader of the House of Lords or leader of the House of Commons. The office of Lord Privy Seal, unlike those of leader of the Lords or Commons, is eligible for a ministerial salary under the Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975. [1]
and First Lord of the Treasury: Clement Attlee: 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 ...
Attlee took Labour into the wartime coalition government in 1940 and served under Winston Churchill, initially as Lord Privy Seal and then as Deputy Prime Minister from 1942. [note 1] The Labour Party, led by Attlee, won a landslide victory in the 1945 general election, on their post-war recovery platform.
October 1938 – Lord Stanhope succeeds Duff Cooper (resigned) as First Lord of the Admiralty, remaining also Leader of the House of Lords. Lord De La Warr succeeds Stanhope at the Board of Education. Sir John Anderson succeeds De La Warr as Lord Privy Seal, with special responsibility for Air Raid Precautions. Malcolm MacDonald succeeds ...
Lord Privy Seal; In office 3 April 1940 – 12 May 1940: Prime Minister: Neville Chamberlain: Preceded by: Samuel Hoare: Succeeded by: Clement Attlee: Secretary of State for Air; In office 16 May 1938 – 3 April 1940: Prime Minister: Neville Chamberlain: Preceded by: Philip Cunliffe-Lister: Succeeded by: Sir Samuel Hoare: Minister of Health ...
The Act set the order of precedence as the sovereign's children, the "Vicegerent" (Thomas Cromwell), the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the bishops, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord High Treasurer, the Lord President of the King's Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Lord Constable, the Earl Marshal, the Lord High Admiral, the Lord Steward and the King ...
Its members included David Lloyd George, Lord Milner, Lord Curzon, Jan Smuts, and Maurice Hankey. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Upon his transfer from the war cabinet to the War Office as Secretary of State for War in April 1918, the X Committee was created so Lord Milner could meet with the Prime Minister before war cabinet sessions to continue the talks.
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, PC, PC (Ire), FRS (8 July 1882 – 4 January 1958), was a Scottish civil servant and politician who is best known for his service in the War Cabinet during the Second World War, for which he was nicknamed the "Home Front Prime Minister".