The Marquess of Londonderry | |
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Leader of the House of Lords Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | |
In office 7 June 1935 – 22 November 1935 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
Preceded by | The Viscount Hailsham (Leader of Lords) Anthony Eden (Lord Privy Seal) |
Succeeded by | The Viscount Halifax |
Secretary of State for Air | |
In office 5 November 1931 – 7 June 1935 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | The Lord Amulree |
Succeeded by | The Viscount Swinton |
First Commissioner of Works | |
In office 25 August 1931 – 5 November 1931 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | George Lansbury |
Succeeded by | Hon. William Ormsby-Gore |
In office 18 October 1928 – 4 June 1929 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
Preceded by | The Viscount Peel |
Succeeded by | George Lansbury |
Minister of Education for Northern Ireland | |
In office 7 June 1921 – 8 January 1926 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | James Craig |
Governor | The Duke of Abercorn |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | The Viscount Charlemont |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air | |
In office 2 April 1920 – 18 July 1921 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
Preceded by | George Tryon |
Succeeded by | The Lord Gorell |
Member of the Senate of Northern Ireland | |
In office 7 June 1921 – 6 June 1929 | |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | John McHugh |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 9 February 1915 – 10 February 1949 Hereditary Peerage | |
Preceded by | The 6th Marquess of Londonderry |
Succeeded by | The 8th Marquess of Londonderry |
Member of Parliament for Maidstone | |
In office 8 February 1906 – 8 February 1915 | |
Preceded by | Sir Francis Evans |
Succeeded by | Carlyon Bellairs |
Personal details | |
Born | Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart 13 May 1878 |
Died | 10 February 1949 Mount Stewart, County Down | (aged 70)
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative Ulster Unionist |
Spouse | |
Children | Lady Maureen Vane-Tempest-Stewart Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry Lady Margaret Vane-Tempest-Stewart Lady Helen Vane-Tempest-Stewart Lady Mairi Vane-Tempest-Stewart Dorothé Mabel Lewis |
Parent(s) | Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry Lady Theresa Chetwynd-Talbot |
Alma mater | Royal Military College, Sandhurst |
Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, KG, MVO, PC, PC (Ire) (13 May 1878 – 10 February 1949), styled Lord Stewart until 1884 and Viscount Castlereagh between 1884 and 1915, was a British peer and politician. He is best remembered for his tenure as Secretary of State for Air in the 1930s and for his attempts to reach an understanding with Nazi Germany. In 1935 he was removed from the Air Ministry but retained in the Cabinet as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords.
His main record at the Air Ministry included:
He preserved the core of the RAF at a time when even this was under threat from the Treasury. He encouraged the planning of vital new fighter aircraft such as the Hurricane and Spitfire. It was under his tutelage that radar was developed for use by the RAF. The Staff College at Cranwell was opened in the last months of his time as air minister....[But in underestimating the Luftwaffe he was] badly astray over the issue of German air strength in 1934–5.[1]
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