John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon

The Right Honourable The Viscount Simon GCSI GCVO OBE PC KC
Simon in 1931
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
In office 10 May 1940 – 27 July 1945
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	The Viscount Caldecote
Succeeded by	The Viscount Jowitt
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 28 May 1937 – 10 May 1940
Prime Minister	Neville Chamberlain
Preceded by	Neville Chamberlain
Succeeded by	Sir Kingsley Wood
Foreign Secretary
In office 5 November 1931 – 7 June 1935
Prime Minister	Ramsay MacDonald
Preceded by	The Marquess of Reading
Succeeded by	Sir Samuel Hoare
Home Secretary
In office 7 June 1935 – 28 May 1937
Prime Minister	Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by	Sir John Gilmour
Succeeded by	Sir Samuel Hoare
In office 27 May 1915 – 12 January 1916
Prime Minister	H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	Reginald McKenna
Succeeded by	Herbert Samuel
Attorney-General for England
In office 19 October 1913 – 25 May 1915
Prime Minister	H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	Sir Rufus Isaacs
Succeeded by	Sir Edward Carson
Solicitor-General for England
In office 7 October 1910 – 19 October 1913
Prime Minister	H. H. Asquith
Preceded by	Sir Rufus Isaacs
Succeeded by	Sir Stanley Buckmaster
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 20 May 1940 – 11 January 1954 Hereditary peerage
Preceded by	Peerage created
Succeeded by	The 2nd Viscount Simon
Member of Parliament for Spen Valley
In office 15 November 1922 – 1 June 1940
Preceded by	Tom Myers
Succeeded by	William Woolley
Member of Parliament for Walthamstow
In office 8 February 1906 – 14 December 1918
Preceded by	David John Morgan
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Personal details
Born	John Allsebrook Simon (1873-02-28)28 February 1873 Moss Side, Manchester, Lancashire, England
Died	11 January 1954(1954-01-11) (aged 80) Westminster, London, England
Political party	Liberal Party
Other political affiliations	National Liberal Party
Spouses	Ethel Venables ​ ​ (m. 1899; died 1902)​ Kathleen Rochard Manning ​ ​ (m. 1917)​
Alma mater	Wadham College, Oxford

John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, GCSI, GCVO, OBE, PC (28 February 1873 – 11 January 1954) was a British politician who held senior Cabinet posts from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second World War. He is one of three people to have served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, the others being Rab Butler and James Callaghan.

He also served as Lord Chancellor, the most senior position in the British legal system. Beginning his career as a Liberal (identified initially with the left wing^[1] but later with the right wing of the party),^[2] he joined the National Government in 1931, creating the Liberal National Party in the process. At the end of his career, he was essentially a Conservative.