The Earl of Swinton | |
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Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations | |
In office 24 November 1952 – 7 April 1955 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
Preceded by | The Marquess of Salisbury |
Succeeded by | The Earl of Home |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
In office 31 October 1951 – 24 November 1952 | |
Monarchs | George VI Elizabeth II |
Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
Preceded by | The Viscount Alexander of Hillsborough |
Succeeded by | The Earl of Woolton |
Minister of Civil Aviation | |
In office 8 October 1944 – 26 July 1945 | |
Monarch | George VI |
Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
Preceded by | Post established |
Succeeded by | The Lord Winster |
Secretary of State for Air | |
In office 7 June 1935 – 16 May 1938 | |
Monarchs | George V Edward VIII George VI |
Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain |
Preceded by | The Marquess of Londonderry |
Succeeded by | Kingsley Wood |
Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
In office 5 November 1931 – 7 June 1935 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | James Henry Thomas |
Succeeded by | Malcolm MacDonald |
President of the Board of Trade | |
In office 25 August 1931 – 5 November 1931 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | William Graham |
Succeeded by | Walter Runciman |
In office 6 November 1924 – 4 June 1929 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Stanley Baldwin |
Preceded by | Sidney Webb |
Succeeded by | William Graham |
In office 24 October 1922 – 22 January 1924 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Bonar Law Stanley Baldwin |
Preceded by | Stanley Baldwin |
Succeeded by | Sidney Webb |
Secretary for Overseas Trade | |
In office 1 April 1921 – 19 October 1922 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
Preceded by | F G Kellaway |
Succeeded by | Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Bt |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade | |
In office 22 August 1920 – 1 April 1921 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
Preceded by | William Bridgeman |
Succeeded by | William Mitchell-Thomson |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 4 December 1935 – 27 July 1972 Hereditary peerage | |
Preceded by | Peerage created |
Succeeded by | The 2nd Earl of Swinton |
Member of Parliament for Hendon | |
In office 14 December 1918 – 25 October 1935 | |
Preceded by | constituency established |
Succeeded by | Reginald Blair |
Personal details | |
Born | East Ayton, Yorkshire, England | 1 May 1884
Died | 27 July 1972 Swinton, Yorkshire, England | (aged 88)
Resting place | Masham, Yorkshire, England |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Mary Boynton (died 1974) |
Alma mater | Winchester College |
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton, GBE, CH, MC, PC (1 May 1884 – 27 July 1972), known as Philip Lloyd-Greame until 1924 and as The Viscount Swinton between 1935 and 1955, was a prominent British Conservative politician from the 1920s until the 1950s. He was notable through the 1940s and 1950s as being firstly the Minister for Aviation, and then being on the steering committee for the Convention on International Civil Aviation. he retired from politics in 1955 and his status was raised to an earldom.
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