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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] The office does not confer membership of the House of Lords, leading to Ernest Bevin's remark on holding this office that he was "neither a Lord, nor a Privy, nor a Seal". [2] [3]
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.
Lord Inman succeeds Arthur Greenwood as Lord Privy Seal. William Francis Hare, Lord Listowel succeeds Lord Pethick-Lawrence as Secretary of State for India and Burma. July 1947 – The Dominion Affairs Office becomes the Office of Commonwealth Relations. Lord Addison remains at the head.
The Churchill war ministry was the United Kingdom's coalition government for most of the Second World War from 10 May 1940 to 23 May 1945. It was led by Winston Churchill, who was appointed prime minister of the United Kingdom by King George VI following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain in the aftermath of the Norway Debate.
In 1946 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Inman, of Knaresborough in the West Riding of the County of York. [3] He served under Clement Attlee as Lord Privy Seal, with a seat in the cabinet, from April to October 1947, when he resigned.
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 ...
His brother-in-law, Lord Brooke, was wounded during the war. [32] One summer night in 1916, near Ploegsteert, Eden had to lead a small raid into an enemy trench to kill or capture enemy soldiers to identify the enemy units opposite. He and his men were pinned down in no man's land under enemy fire, his sergeant seriously wounded in the leg ...
The National Government of 1937–1939 was formed by Neville Chamberlain on his appointment as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King George VI.He succeeded Stanley Baldwin, who announced his resignation following the coronation of the King and Queen in May 1937.