Coalition Government 1940-1945
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Members of the War Cabinet are in bold face.
OfficeNamePartyDatesNotes
Prime Minister
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the Head of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Parliament, to their political party and...

,
Minister of Defence and First Lord of the Treasury
First Lord of the Treasury
The First Lord of the Treasury is the head of the commission exercising the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer in the United Kingdom, and is now always also the Prime Minister...

Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...

Conservative
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

10 May 1940 Member of War Cabinet
War Cabinet
A War Cabinet is a committee formed by a government in a time of war. It is usually a subset of the full executive cabinet of ministers. It is also quite common for a War Cabinet to have senior military officers and opposition politicians as members....

; also Leader of the House of Commons
Leader of the House of Commons
The Leader of the House of Commons is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Commons...

 1940-1942
Lord Chancellor
Lord Chancellor
The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom. He is the second highest ranking of the Great Officers of State, ranking only after the Lord High Steward. The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the Sovereign...

Viscount Simon
John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon GCSI GCVO OBE PC was a British politician who held senior Cabinet posts from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second. He is one of only three people to have served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

Liberal National 12 May 1940  
Lord President of the Council
Lord President of the Council
The Lord President of the Council is the fourth of the Great Officers of State of the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord High Treasurer and above the Lord Privy Seal. The Lord President usually attends each meeting of the Privy Council, presenting business for the monarch's approval...

Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the...

Conservative 11 May 1940 Member of War Cabinet
Sir John Anderson
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, PC, PC was a British civil servant then politician who served as a minister under Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill as Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer...

Independent 3 October 1940 Member of War Cabinet
Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955...

Labour 24 September 1943 Member of War Cabinet
Lord Privy Seal
Lord Privy Seal
The Lord Privy Seal is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain. The office is one of the traditional sinecure offices of state...

Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955...

Labour 11 May 1940 Member of War Cabinet; also Deputy Leader of the House of Commons
Leader of the House of Commons
The Leader of the House of Commons is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Commons...

Stafford Cripps
Stafford Cripps
Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was a British Labour politician of the first half of the 20th century. During World War II he served in a number of positions in the wartime coalition, including Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Minister of Aircraft Production...

Labour 19 February 1942 Member of War Cabinet; also Leader of the House of Commons
Leader of the House of Commons
The Leader of the House of Commons is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Commons...

Viscount Cranborne
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC , known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician.-Background:...

Conservative 22 November 1942 also Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

Lord Beaverbrook Conservative 24 September 1943 Member of War Cabinet
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the title held by the British Cabinet minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters. Often simply called the Chancellor, the office-holder controls HM Treasury and plays a role akin to the posts of Minister of Finance or Secretary of the...

Sir Kingsley Wood
Kingsley Wood
Sir Howard Kingsley Wood was an English Conservative politician. The son of a Wesleyan Methodist minister, he qualified as a solicitor, and successfully specialised in industrial insurance...

Conservative 12 May 1940 In War Cabinet from 3 October 1940 – 19 February 1942
Sir John Anderson
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, PC, PC was a British civil servant then politician who served as a minister under Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill as Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer...

National 24 September 1943  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury is a junior ministerial position in the British Government. The holder is usually the Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons. However, the office is no longer attached to the Treasury...

David Margesson
David Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson
Henry David Reginald Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson PC was a British Conservative politician most popularly remembered for his tenure as Government Chief Whip in the 1930s. His reputation was of a stern disciplinarian who was one of the harshest and most effective whips...

Conservative 17 May 1940 – 22 December 1940 Jointly
Sir Charles Edwards
Charles Edwards (UK politician)
Sir Charles Edwards was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.Edwards was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament for the newly-created Bedwellty constituency in Monmouthshire...

Labour 17 May 1940 – 12 March 1942 Jointly
James Stuart
James Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn
James Gray Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn CH MVO MC and Bar PC was a Scottish Unionist politician.Born in Edinburgh, Stuart was the son of Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray, and Edith Douglas Palmer....

Conservative 14 January 1941 – 23 May 1945 Jointly
William Whiteley
William Whiteley (politician)
William Whiteley, CH, PC, DL was the Labour Member of Parliament for Blaydon in County Durham.William Whiteley, not to be confused with the founder of the Department Store of the same name, was a Durham miner by background and lodge official also...

Labour 12 March 1942 – 23 May 1945 Jointly
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
Financial Secretary to the Treasury is a junior Ministerial post in the British Treasury. It is the 4th most significant Ministerial role within the Treasury after the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, and the Paymaster General...

Harry Crookshank
Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank
Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank CH, PC , was a British Conservative politician. He was Minister of Health between 1951 and 1952 and Leader of the House of Commons between 1951 and 1952....

Conservative 15 May 1940
Ralph Assheton
Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe
Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe PC was a British Conservative Party politician.He was Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe from 1934 to 1945, for the City of London from 1945 to 1950, and for Blackburn West from 1950 to 1955.In the wartime government under Winston Churchill, he was Minister of...

Conservative 7 February 1943  
Osbert Peake
Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby
Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby PC was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Minister of National Insurance and then as Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from 1951 to 1955....

Conservative 29 October 1944  
Lords of the Treasury
Lord of the Treasury
In the United Kingdom, there are at least six Lords of the Treasury who serve concurrently. Traditionally, this board consists of the First Lord of the Treasury, the Second Lord of the Treasury, and four or more junior lords .Strictly they are commissioners for exercising the office of Lord...

Stephen Furness
Stephen Noel Furness
Stephen Noel Furness , was a British politician.He was Member of Parliament for Sunderland from 1935-1945. From 1938-1940 he was a junior Lord of the Treasury....

Liberal National 12 May 1940 – 18 May 1940  
James Stuart
James Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn
James Gray Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn CH MVO MC and Bar PC was a Scottish Unionist politician.Born in Edinburgh, Stuart was the son of Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray, and Edith Douglas Palmer....

Conservative 12 May 1940 – 14 January 1941  
Patrick Munro
Patrick Munro
Patrick Munro , also known as Pat Munro, was a British Conservative politician and international rugby union player.-Biography:...

Conservative 12 May 1940 – 13 March 1942  
Patrick Buchan-Hepburn
Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes
Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes, GBE, CH , was a British Conservative politician and the only Governor-General of the short-lived West Indies Federation, from 3 January 1958, to 31 May 1962, when the country was disbanded.-Background and education:Buchan-Hepburn was the...

Conservative 12 May 1940 – 26 June 1940  
William Whytehead Boulton Conservative 12 May 1940 – 13 March 1942  
Wilfred Paling
Wilfred Paling
Wilfred Paling was a British Labour politician. He was born at Marehay, near Ripley, Derbyshire, one of eight children of a coalminer. Paling left Ripley Elementary School at the age of 13, and entered casual employment with local plumbing and building companies...

Labour 18 May 1940 – 8 February 1941  
James Thomas
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin
James Purdon Lewes "Jim" Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin was a British Conservative politician. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1951 and 1956.-Background and education:...

Conservative 26 June 1940 – 25 September 1943  
Thomas Dugdale
Thomas Dugdale
Thomas Lionel Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne PC , known as Sir Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baronet, from 1945 to 1959, was a British Conservative Party politician...

Conservative 8 February 1941 – 23 February 1942  
William Murdoch Adamson
William Murdoch Adamson
William Murdoch Adamson was a British Labour politician.He was a National Officer of the Transport and General Workers' Union. In 1902 he married Jennie Laurel Adamson, later Member of Parliament for Dartford and Bexley.He was Labour Member of Parliament for Cannock, in Staffordshire from...

Labour 1 March 1941 – 2 October 1944  
Arthur Young Conservative 23 February 1942 – 3 July 1944  
John McEwen
Sir John McEwen, 1st Baronet
Sir John Helias Finnie McEwen, 1st Baronet , was a Scottish Unionist politician.McEwen was the son of Robert Finnie McEwen. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served in the Cameron Highlanders in the First World War. After the war he joined the Diplomatic Service...

Conservative 13 March 1942 – 6 December 1944  
Leslie Pym
Leslie Pym
Leslie Ruthven Pym was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected as Member of Parliament for Monmouth in Wales at a by-election in 1939. He represented the constituency in the House of Commons until his death during the 1945 general election. Polling took place on 5...

Conservative 13 March 1942 – 23 May 1945  
Alec Beechman
Alec Beechman
Nevil Alexander Beechman was a National Liberal Party politician in England.He was elected to the House of Commons at his first attempt, when he won the June 1937 by-election in the St Ives constituency in Cornwall after the National Liberal MP Walter Runciman was elevated to the peerage as...

Liberal National 25 September 1943 – 23 May 1945  
Cedric Drewe
Cedric Drewe
Sir Cedric Drewe, KCVO was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the son of Julius Drewe, the English businessman, retailer and entrepreneur....

Conservative 3 July 1944 – 23 May 1945  
William John
William John (politician)
William John was a Welsh Labour Party politician, and a Member of Parliament for thirty years.At the Rhondda West by-election, 1920, he was elected as MP for the safe Labour constituency of Rhondda West, and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1950 general election.In...

Labour 2 October 1944 – 23 May 1945  
Patrick Buchan-Hepburn Conservative 6 December 1944 – 23 May 1945  
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Viscount Halifax Conservative 11 May 1940 also Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

 from 3 October 1940; Member of War Cabinet
Anthony Eden
Anthony Eden
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC was a British Conservative politician, who was Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957...

Conservative 22 December 1940 Member of War Cabinet; also Leader of the House of Commons
Leader of the House of Commons
The Leader of the House of Commons is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Commons...

 1942-1945
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
|The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has been a junior position in the British government since 1782, subordinate to both the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and since 1945 also to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs...

R. A. Butler Conservative 15 May 1940  
Richard Law
Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine
Richard Kidston Law, 1st Baron Coleraine PC was a British Conservative politician. He was the youngest son of former Conservative Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law and his wife Annie. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St...

Conservative 20 July 1941  
George Henry Hall
George Henry Hall
George Henry Hall, 1st Viscount Hall PC was a British Labour politician. He served Secretary of State for the Colonies between 1945 and 1946 and as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1946 and 1951.-Background:...

Labour 25 September 1943  
Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Home Security Sir John Anderson
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, PC, PC was a British civil servant then politician who served as a minister under Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill as Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer...

National 12 May 1940  
Herbert Morrison
Herbert Morrison
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, CH, PC was a British Labour politician; he held a various number of senior positions in the Cabinet, including Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister.-Early life:Morrison was the son of a police constable and was born in...

Labour 2 October 1940 In War Cabinet from 22 November 1942
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
-Non-permanent and parliamentary under-secretaries, 1782-present:*April 1782: Evan Nepean*April 1782: Thomas Orde*July 1782: Henry Strachey*April 1783: George North*February 1784: Hon. John Townshend*June 1789: Scrope Bernard*July 1794: The Hon...

Osbert Peake
Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby
Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby PC was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Minister of National Insurance and then as Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from 1951 to 1955....

Conservative 15 May 1940  
The Earl of Munster
Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster
Sir Geoffrey William Richard Hugh FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster KBE PC , was a British peer and Conservative politician....

Conservative 31 October 1944  
Parliamentary Secretary for the Home Department William Mabane
William Mabane
William Mabane, 1st Baron Mabane KBE, PC , known as Sir William Mabane between 1954 and 1962, was a British businessman and politician.-Background and education:...

Liberal National 15 May 1940 – 3 June 1942  
Ellen Wilkinson
Ellen Wilkinson
Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was the Labour Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough and later for Jarrow on Tyneside. She was one of the first women in Britain to be elected as a Member of Parliament .- History :...

Labour 8 October 1940 – 23 May 1945  
First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough
Albert Victor Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough KG, CH, PC was a British Labour Co-operative politician. He was three times First Lord of the Admiralty, including during the Second World War, and then Minister of Defence under Clement Attlee.-Background:Born in Weston-super-Mare and...

Labour 11 May 1940  
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty Sir Victor Warrender, Bt
Victor Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield
Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, 1st Baron Bruntisfield MC , known as Sir Victor Warrender, Bt, between 1917 and 1942, was a British Conservative politician...

Conservative 17 May 1940 Lord Bruntisfield
Civil Lord of the Admiralty Sir Austin Hudson, Bt
Sir Austin Hudson, 1st Baronet
Sir Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, 1st Baronet was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom....

Conservative 15 May 1940  
Richard Pilkington Conservative 4 March 1942  
Financial Secretary to the Admiralty George Hall Labour 4 February 1942  
James Thomas
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin
James Purdon Lewes "Jim" Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin was a British Conservative politician. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1951 and 1956.-Background and education:...

Conservative 1943  
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Robert Hudson
Robert Hudson, 1st Viscount Hudson
Robert Spear Hudson, 1st Viscount Hudson CH PC was a British Conservative Party politician who held a number of ministerial posts during the Second World War....

Conservative 14 May 1940  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries The Lord Moyne
Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne
Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne DSO & Bar PC was a Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. He served as the British minister of state in the Middle East until November 1944, when he was assassinated by the militant Jewish Zionist group Lehi...

Conservative 15 May 1940 – 8 February 1941  
Tom Williams Labour 15 May 1940 – 23 May 1945  
The Duke of Norfolk
Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk
Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, , styled Earl of Arundel and Surrey until 1917, was the eldest surviving son of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, who died when Bernard was only 9 years old...

Conservative 8 February 1941 – 23 May 1945  
Secretary of State for Air
Secretary of State for Air
The Secretary of State for Air was a cabinet level British position. The person holding this position was in charge of the Air Ministry. It was created on 10 January 1919 to manage the Royal Air Force...

Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso
Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso KT, CMG, PC , known as Sir Archibald Sinclair, Bt between 1912 and 1952, and often as Archie Sinclair, was a British politician and leader of the Liberal Party....

Liberal 11 May 1940  
Under-Secretary of State for Air
Under-Secretary of State for Air
The Under-Secretary of State for Air was a junior ministerial post in the United Kingdom Government, supporting the Secretary of State for Air in his role of managing the Royal Air Force....

Harold Balfour Conservative 15 May 1940 – 21 November 1944  
The Lord Sherwood
Hugh Seely, 1st Baron Sherwood
Hugh Michael Seely, 1st Baron Sherwood was a British Liberal politician. He was the third baronet of the Seely family, of Sherwood Lodge, Nottinghamshire....

Liberal 20 July 1941 – 23 May 1945  
Rupert Brabner
Rupert Brabner
Commander Rupert Arnold Brabner DSO, DSC, was a British Member of Parliament who served with the Royal Navy as a pilot in World War II and became an ace with 5.5 confirmed kills.-Politics:...

Conservative 21 November 1944 – 27 March 1945  
Quintin Hogg
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
For the businessman and philanthropist, see Quintin Hogg Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC, FRS , formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham , was a British politician who was known for the longevity of his career, the vigour with which he campaigned for the Conservative...

Conservative 12 April 1945 – 23 May 1945  
Minister of Aircraft Production
Minister of Aircraft Production
The Minister of Aircraft Production was the British government position in charge of the Ministry of Aircraft Production, one of the specialised supply ministries set up by the British Government during World War II...

The Lord Beaverbrook
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Bt, PC, was a Canadian-British business tycoon, politician, and writer.-Early career in Canada:...

Conservative 14 May 1940 In War Cabinet from 2 August 1940 – 1 May 1941
John Moore-Brabazon
John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara
John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, GBE, MC, PC was an English aviation pioneer and Conservative politician...

Conservative 1 May 1941  
John Llewellin
John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin
Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin GBE, PC, MC, TD was a British army officer, Conservative Party politician and minister in Winston Churchill's war government.-Background:...

Conservative 22 February 1942  
Sir Stafford Cripps
Stafford Cripps
Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was a British Labour politician of the first half of the 20th century. During World War II he served in a number of positions in the wartime coalition, including Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Minister of Aircraft Production...

Labour 22 November 1942  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Aircraft Production John Llewellin
John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin
Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin GBE, PC, MC, TD was a British army officer, Conservative Party politician and minister in Winston Churchill's war government.-Background:...

Conservative 15 May 1940  
Frederick Montague
Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell
Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell CBE was a British Labour Party politician.Amwell was the son of John Montague and Mary Ann Manderson. He worked as a newsboy and as a shop assistant and later became a copywriter and political agent...

Labour 1 May 1941  
Ben Smith
Ben Smith (British Labour politician)
Sir Benjamin Smith, PC was a Labour Party politician in England. A driver of one of London's first taxicabs, he was Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe from 1923 until 1931 and from 1935 until 1946...

Labour 4 March 1942  
Alan Lennox-Boyd
Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton
Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, CH, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician.-Background, education and military service:...

Conservative |11 November 1943  
Minister of Civil Aviation The Viscount Swinton Conservative 8 October 1944 New office
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Civil Aviation Robert Perkins Conservative 22 March 1945  
Secretary of State for the Colonies
Secretary of State for the Colonies
The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet minister in charge of managing the United Kingdom's various colonial dependencies....

The Lord Lloyd Conservative 12 May 1940 also Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

 from 22 December 1940
The Lord Moyne
Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne
Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne DSO & Bar PC was a Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. He served as the British minister of state in the Middle East until November 1944, when he was assassinated by the militant Jewish Zionist group Lehi...

Conservative 8 February 1941 also Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

Viscount Cranborne
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC , known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician.-Background:...

Conservative 22 February 1942 also Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

Oliver Stanley
Oliver Stanley
Oliver Frederick George Stanley MC, PC was a prominent British Conservative politician who held many ministerial posts before his early death when it was expected he would soon assume higher office....

Conservative 22 November 1942  
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies was a junior Ministerial post in the United Kingdom government, subordinate to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and, from 1948, also to a Minister of State....

George Hall Labour 15 May 1940  
Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963....

Conservative 4 February 1942  
The Duke of Devonshire
Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire
Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, KG, MBE, TD , known as Marquess of Hartington , was the head of the Devonshire branch of the Cavendish family...

Conservative 1 January 1943  
Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
The position of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs was a British cabinet level position created in 1925 responsible for British relations with the Dominions — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland, and the Irish Free State, as well as the self-governing colony of...

The Viscount Caldecote
Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote
Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote CBE, PC, KC was a British politician who served in many legal posts, culminating in serving as Lord Chancellor from 1939 until 1940...

Conservative 14 May 1940 also Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

Viscount Cranborne
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC , known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician.-Background:...

Conservative 3 October 1940  
Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955...

Labour 19 February 1942 Member of War Cabinet
Viscount Cranborne
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC , known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician.-Background:...

Conservative 24 September 1943 also Leader of the House of Lords
Leader of the House of Lords
The Leader of the House of Lords is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom who is responsible for arranging government business in the House of Lords. The role is always held in combination with a formal Cabinet position, usually one of the sinecure offices of Lord President of the Council,...

Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs
The position of Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs was a British ministerial position, subordinate to that of Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, created in 1925 to deal with British relations with the Dominions — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundland, and the...

Geoffrey Shakespeare Liberal National 15 May 1940  
Paul Emrys-Evans
Paul Emrys-Evans
Paul Vychan Emrys-Evans was a British Conservative Party politician.He was elected as Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire at the 1931 general election, and served as the constituency's MP until his defeat at the 1945 general election by Labour's Arthur Champion.He was Under-Secretary of...

Conservative 4 March 1942  
Minister of Economic Warfare
Minister of Economic Warfare
The Minister of Economic Warfare was a British government position which existed during the Second World War. The minister was in charge of the Special Operations Executive.-Ministers of Economic Warfare 1939-1945:...

Hugh Dalton
Hugh Dalton
Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton PC was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947, when he was implicated in a political scandal involving budget leaks....

Labour 15 May 1940  
Viscount Wolmer
Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne
Roundell Cecil Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, CH, PC was a British Conservative politician, known as Viscount Wolmer from 1895 to 1941....

Conservative 22 February 1942  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Economic Warfare Dingle Foot
Dingle Foot
Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot, Q.C. was a British lawyer and politician, born in Plymouth, Devon.-Education and career:...

Liberal 17 May 1940  
President of the Board of Education Herwald Ramsbotham
Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury
Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury GCMG, GCVO, OBE, MC, PC was a British Conservative politician. He was a government minister between 1931 and 1941 and served as Governor-General of Ceylon between 1949 and 1954....

Conservative 14 May 1940  
Rab Butler
Rab Butler
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG CH DL PC , who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician...

Conservative 20 July 1941 Renamed Minister of Education 3 August 1944
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education was a junior ministerial office in the United Kingdom Government. In 1899 the Board of Education Act abolished the Committee of the Privy Council which had been responsible for education matters and instituted a new Board from 1 April 1900. The...

James Chuter Ede
James Chuter Ede
James Chuter Ede, Baron Chuter-Ede CH, PC, DL was a British teacher, trade unionist and Labour politician. He notably served as Home Secretary under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.-Early life:...

Labour 15 May 1940  
Minister of Food
Minister of Food
The Minister of Food Control and the Minister of Food were British government ministerial posts separated from that of the Minister of Agriculture. A major task of the latter office was to oversee rationing in the United Kingdom arising out of World War II...

The Lord Woolton Conservative 13 May 1940  
John Llewellin
John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin
Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin GBE, PC, MC, TD was a British army officer, Conservative Party politician and minister in Winston Churchill's war government.-Background:...

Conservative 11 November 1943  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food Robert Boothby Conservative 15 May 1940  
Gwilym Lloyd-George
Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby
Major Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby PC TD was a British politician and cabinet minister. A younger son of Prime Minister David Lloyd George, he served as Home Secretary from 1954 to 1957....

Liberal 22 October 1940  
William Mabane
William Mabane
William Mabane, 1st Baron Mabane KBE, PC , known as Sir William Mabane between 1954 and 1962, was a British businessman and politician.-Background and education:...

Liberal National 3 June 1942  
Minister of Fuel, Light and Power Gwilym Lloyd-George
Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby
Major Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby PC TD was a British politician and cabinet minister. A younger son of Prime Minister David Lloyd George, he served as Home Secretary from 1954 to 1957....

Liberal 3 June 1942 New office
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fuel, Light and Power Geoffrey Lloyd Conservative 3 June 1942 – 23 May 1945  
Tom Smith
Tom Smith (Labour politician)
Tom Smith was a Labour Party politician in England.At the 1922 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the previously Liberal-held seat of Pontefract in West Yorkshire. He was re-elected at the 1923 election, but at the 1924 general election he lost his seat by 701 votes to...

Labour 3 June 1942 – 23 May 1945  
Minister of Health
Secretary of State for Health
Secretary of State for Health is a UK cabinet position responsible for the Department of Health.The first Boards of Health were created by Orders in Council dated 21 June, 14 November, and 21 November 1831. In 1848 a General Board of Health was created with the First Commissioner of Woods and...

Malcolm MacDonald
Malcolm MacDonald
Malcolm John MacDonald OM, PC was a British politician and diplomat.-Background:MacDonald was the son of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Margaret MacDonald. Like his father he was born in Lossiemouth, Moray...

National Labour 13 May 1940  
Ernest Brown
Ernest Brown
Alfred Ernest Brown CH was a British politician who served as leader of the Liberal Nationals from 1940 until 1945.-Biography:...

Liberal National 8 February 1941  
Henry Willink
Henry Willink
Sir Henry Urmston Willink, 1st Baronet PC, MC, KC , was a British politician and public servant.He is best known for his service in the Conservative Party as Minister of Health from 1943-1945 in the wartime Coalition Government of the United Kingdom...

Conservative 11 November 1943  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health was a junior ministerial office in the United Kingdom Government.The Ministry of Health was created in 1919 as a reconstruction of the Local Government Board...

Florence Horsbrugh
Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh
Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh, GBE, PC was a Scottish Unionist Party and Conservative Party politician....

 
Conservative 15 May 1940  
Secretary of State for India and Burma Leo Amery Conservative 13 May 1940  
Parliamentary Secretary for India and Burma The Duke of Devonshire
Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire
Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, KG, MBE, TD , known as Marquess of Hartington , was the head of the Devonshire branch of the Cavendish family...

Conservative 17 May 1940  
The Earl of Munster
Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster
Sir Geoffrey William Richard Hugh FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster KBE PC , was a British peer and Conservative politician....

Conservative 1 January 1943  
The Earl of Listowel
William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel
William Francis Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel GCMG, PC , styled Viscount Ennismore between 1924 and 1931, was a British peer and Labour politician...

Labour 31 October 1944  
Minister of Information Duff Cooper Conservative 12 May 1940 Attended War Cabinet from 28 May 1940
Brendan Bracken
Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken
Brendan Randell Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken PC was an Irish businessman and a minister in the British Conservative cabinet. Primarily, the 1st Viscount Bracken is remembered for opposing the Bank of England's co-operation with Adolf Hitler, and for subsequently supporting Winston Churchill's...

Conservative 20 July 1941  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Information Harold Nicolson
Harold Nicolson
Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG was an English diplomat, author, diarist and politician. He was the husband of writer Vita Sackville-West, their unusual relationship being described in their son's book, Portrait of a Marriage.-Early life:Nicolson was born in Tehran, Persia, the younger son of...

National Labour 17 May 1940
Ernest Thurtle
Ernest Thurtle
Ernest Thurtle was a British Labour politician.Thurtle worked as am accountant and salesman...

Labour 20 July 1941  
Minister of Labour and National Service
Secretary of State for Employment
The Secretary of State for Employment was a position in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom. In 1995 it was merged with Secretary of State for Education to make the Secretary of State for Education and Employment...

Ernest Bevin
Ernest Bevin
Ernest Bevin was a British trade union leader and Labour politician. He served as general secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union from 1922 to 1945, as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition government, and as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour Government.-Early...

Labour 13 May 1940 In War Cabinet from 3 October 1940
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour Ralph Assheton
Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe
Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe PC was a British Conservative Party politician.He was Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe from 1934 to 1945, for the City of London from 1945 to 1950, and for Blackburn West from 1950 to 1955.In the wartime government under Winston Churchill, he was Minister of...

Conservative 15 May 1940 – 4 February 1942  
George Tomlinson
George Tomlinson
George Tomlinson was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Rishton, Lancashire, he was a conscientious objector in the First World War, and worked on the land....

Labour 8 February 1941 – 23 May 1945  
Malcolm McCorquodale
Malcolm McCorquodale, 1st Baron McCorquodale of Newton
Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale, 1st Baron McCorquodale of Newton PC was a British businessman and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...

Conservative 4 February 1942 – 23 May 1945  
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a ministerial office in the government of the United Kingdom that includes as part of its duties, the administration of the estates and rents of the Duchy of Lancaster...

The Lord Hankey
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey
Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and who later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office.-Life and career:The third son of R. A...

Independent 14 May 1940  
Duff Cooper Conservative 20 July 1941  
Ernest Brown
Ernest Brown
Alfred Ernest Brown CH was a British politician who served as leader of the Liberal Nationals from 1940 until 1945.-Biography:...

Liberal National 11 November 1943  
Minister Resident North-West Africa Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963....

Conservative 30 December 1942  
Minister Resident Middle East Oliver Lyttelton
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos KG, PC, DSO, MC was a British businessman who was brought into government during the Second World War, holding a number of ministerial posts.-Background, education and military career:...

Conservative 19 February 1942 Member of War Cabinet
Richard Casey
Richard Casey, Baron Casey
Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey KG GCMG CH DSO MC KStJ PC was an Australian politician, diplomat and the 16th Governor-General of Australia.-Early life:...

Independent 19 March 1942 Member of War Cabinet until 23 December 1943. Not a British MP
The Lord Moyne
Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne
Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne DSO & Bar PC was a Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. He served as the British minister of state in the Middle East until November 1944, when he was assassinated by the militant Jewish Zionist group Lehi...

Conservative 28 January 1944  
Sir Edward Grigg
Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham
Edward William Macleay Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham, KCMG, KCVO, DSO, MC, PC was a British colonial administrator and politician.-Early years:...

Conservative 21 November 1944  
Deputy Minister of State The Lord Moyne
Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne
Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne DSO & Bar PC was a Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. He served as the British minister of state in the Middle East until November 1944, when he was assassinated by the militant Jewish Zionist group Lehi...

Conservative 27 August 1942 – 28 January 1944
Minister Resident, Washington John Llewellin
John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin
Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin GBE, PC, MC, TD was a British army officer, Conservative Party politician and minister in Winston Churchill's war government.-Background:...

Conservative 22 November 1942  
Ben Smith
Ben Smith (British Labour politician)
Sir Benjamin Smith, PC was a Labour Party politician in England. A driver of one of London's first taxicabs, he was Member of Parliament for Rotherhithe from 1923 until 1931 and from 1935 until 1946...

Labour 11 November 1943  
Minister Resident West Africa The Viscount Swinton  Conservative 8 June 1942  
Harold Balfour Conservative 21 November 1944  
Minister without Portfolio
Minister without Portfolio
A minister without portfolio is either a government minister with no specific responsibilities or a minister that does not head a particular ministry...

Arthur Greenwood
Arthur Greenwood
Arthur Greenwood CH was a prominent member of the Labour Party from the 1920s until the late 1940s. He rose to prominence within the party as secretary of its research department from 1920 and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health in the short-lived Labour government of 1924...

Labour 11 May 1940 – 22 February 1942 Member of War Cabinet
Sir William Jowitt
William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt
William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt PC, KC , was a British Labour politician and lawyer, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.-Background and education:...

Labour 30 December 1942 – 8 October 1944  
Paymaster General Viscount Cranborne
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC , known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician.-Background:...

Conservative 15 May 1940 Office vacant 3 October 1940
The Lord Hankey
Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey
Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and who later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office.-Life and career:The third son of R. A...

Independent 20 July 1941  
Sir William Jowitt
William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt
William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt PC, KC , was a British Labour politician and lawyer, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.-Background and education:...

Labour 4 March 1942  
The Lord Cherwell
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell FRS PC CH was an English physicist who was an influential scientific adviser to the British government, particularly Winston Churchill...

Conservative 30 December 1942  
Minister for Pensions
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is a post in the British Cabinet, responsible for the Department for Work and Pensions. It was created on 8 June 2001 by the merger of the Employment part of the Department for Education and Employment and the Department of Social Security.The Ministry...

Sir Walter Womersley
Walter Womersley
Sir Walter James Womersley, 1st Baronet was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Minister of Pensions during the Second World War....

Conservative 15 May 1940  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions was a junior Ministerial office at Parliamentary Secretary rank in the United Kingdom Government, supporting the Minister for Pensions. It was established in 1916 and filled intermittently until 1932...

Ellen Wilkinson
Ellen Wilkinson
Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was the Labour Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough and later for Jarrow on Tyneside. She was one of the first women in Britain to be elected as a Member of Parliament .- History :...

Labour 17 May 1940  
The Lord Tryon
George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon
Major George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon, PC was a British Conservative politician who served in a number of ministerial positions in the inter-war years....

Conservative 8 October 1940  
Wilfred Paling
Wilfred Paling
Wilfred Paling was a British Labour politician. He was born at Marehay, near Ripley, Derbyshire, one of eight children of a coalminer. Paling left Ripley Elementary School at the age of 13, and entered casual employment with local plumbing and building companies...

Labour 8 February 1941  
Postmaster-General
United Kingdom Postmaster General
The Postmaster General of the United Kingdom is a defunct Cabinet-level ministerial position in HM Government. Aside from maintaining the postal system, the Telegraph Act of 1868 established the Postmaster General's right to exclusively maintain electric telegraphs...

William Morrison
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil
William Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, GCMG, MC, KStJ, PC, QC , the 14th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Scotland and educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh. He joined the British Army in the First World War and served with an artillery regiment...

Conservative 15 May 1940  
Harry Crookshank
Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank
Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank CH, PC , was a British Conservative politician. He was Minister of Health between 1951 and 1952 and Leader of the House of Commons between 1951 and 1952....

Conservative 7 February 1943  
Assistant Postmaster-General
Assistant Postmaster-General
The Assistant Postmaster General is a defunct junior ministerial position in the United Kingdom Government.The title of Postmaster General was abolished under the Post Office Act 1969...

Charles Waterhouse
Charles Waterhouse (English politician)
Captain Charles Waterhouse PC MC was a British Conservative politician.-Biography:Born in Salford, the second surviving son of Thomas Crompton Waterhouse, of Lomberdale Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, he was educated at Cheltenham and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating with an MA degree in...

Conservative 17 May 1940  
Allan Chapman
Allan Chapman (politician)
Allan Chapman was a Scottish Unionist Party politician. He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament for the Rutherglen constituency in Lanarkshire...

Conservative 1 March 1941  
Robert Grimston
Robert Grimston, 1st Baron Grimston of Westbury
Robert Villiers Grimston, 1st Baron Grimston of Westbury was a British Conservative politician.The eldest son of the Rev. and Hon...

Conservative 4 March 1942  
Minister of Reconstruction
Minister of Reconstruction
The Minister of Reconstruction was a British government post that briefly existed during the latter stages of the Second World War, charged with planning for the post-war period...

The Lord Woolton Conservative 11 November 1943 Member of War Cabinet
Secretary of State for Scotland
Secretary of State for Scotland
The Secretary of State for Scotland is the principal minister of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom with responsibilities for Scotland. He heads the Scotland Office , a government department based in London and Edinburgh. The post was created soon after the Union of the Crowns, but was...

Ernest Brown
Ernest Brown
Alfred Ernest Brown CH was a British politician who served as leader of the Liberal Nationals from 1940 until 1945.-Biography:...

Liberal National 14 May 1940  
Tom Johnston
Thomas Johnston
Thomas "Tom" Johnston CH was a prominent Scottish socialist and politician of the early 20th century, a member of the Labour Party, a Member of Parliament and government minister – usually with Cabinet responsibility for Scottish affairs.-Red Clydesider:Johnston, the son of a middle-class...

Labour 8 February 1941  
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland is a junior ministerial post in the United Kingdom government, supporting the Secretary of State for Scotland...

Joseph Westwood
Joseph Westwood
Joseph Westwood was a Scottish Labour politician.Educated at Buckhaven Higher Grade School, he worked as a draper's apprentice, messenger boy and miner...

Labour |17 May 1940 – 23 May 1945  
Henry Wedderburn Conservative 8 February 1941 – 4 March 1942  
Allan Chapman
Allan Chapman (politician)
Allan Chapman was a Scottish Unionist Party politician. He was elected at the 1935 general election as Member of Parliament for the Rutherglen constituency in Lanarkshire...

Conservative 4 March 1942 – 23 May 1945  
Minister of Shipping
Minister of Shipping
The Minister of Shipping was a British government post created during the First World War and again during the Second World War. In 1941 it was merged into the position of Minister of Transport which was then renamed Minister of War Transport....

Ronald Cross Conservative 14 May 1940 Merged into Minister of War Transport 1 May 1941
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Shipping Sir Arthur Salter Independent 15 May 1940  
Minister of Social Insurance Sir William Jowitt
William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt
William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt PC, KC , was a British Labour politician and lawyer, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.-Background and education:...

Labour 8 October 1944 Renamed Minister of National Insurance 17 November 1944
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Insurance Charles Peat
Charles Peat
Charles Urie Peat was a British Conservative Party politician and cricketer. He was the son of William Barclay Peat, founder of the international accounting firm KPMG....

Conservative 22 March 1945  
Minister of State
Minister of State
Minister of State is a title borne by politicians or officials in certain countries governed under a parliamentary system. In some countries a "minister of state" is a junior minister, who is assigned to assist a specific cabinet minister...

The Lord Beaverbrook
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Bt, PC, was a Canadian-British business tycoon, politician, and writer.-Early career in Canada:...

Conservative 1 May 1941 Member of War Cabinet
Oliver Lyttelton
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos KG, PC, DSO, MC was a British businessman who was brought into government during the Second World War, holding a number of ministerial posts.-Background, education and military career:...

Conservative 29 June 1941 Member of War Cabinet. Office vacant from 12 March 1942
Minister of Supply
Minister of Supply
The Minister of Supply was the minister in the British Government responsible for the Ministry of Supply, which existed to co-ordinate the supply of equipment to the national armed forces...

Herbert Morrison
Herbert Morrison
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, CH, PC was a British Labour politician; he held a various number of senior positions in the Cabinet, including Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister.-Early life:Morrison was the son of a police constable and was born in...

Labour 12 May 1940  
Sir Andrew Rae Duncan Conservative 3 October 1940  
The Lord Beaverbrook
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Bt, PC, was a Canadian-British business tycoon, politician, and writer.-Early career in Canada:...

Conservative 29 June 1941 Member of War Cabinet
Sir Andrew Rae Duncan Conservative 4 February 1942  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Supply Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963....

Conservative 15 May 1940 – 4 February 1942  
Wyndham Raymond Portal, 1st Viscount Portal Conservative 4 September 1940 – 22 February 1942  
Ralph Assheton
Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe
Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe PC was a British Conservative Party politician.He was Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe from 1934 to 1945, for the City of London from 1945 to 1950, and for Blackburn West from 1950 to 1955.In the wartime government under Winston Churchill, he was Minister of...

Conservative 4 February 1942 – 7 February 1943  
Charles Peat
Charles Peat
Charles Urie Peat was a British Conservative Party politician and cricketer. He was the son of William Barclay Peat, founder of the international accounting firm KPMG....

Conservative 4 March 1942 – 22 March 1945  
Duncan Sandys
Duncan Sandys
Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH PC was a British politician and a minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s...

Conservative 7 February 1943 – 21 November 1944  
John Wilmot Labour 21 November 1944 – 23 May 1945  
James de Rothschild
James Armand de Rothschild
James Armand Edmond de Rothschild, DCM, DL, was a French-born British politician and philanthropist, from the wealthy Rothschild international banking dynasty....

Liberal 22 March 1945 – 23 May 1945  
Minister of Town and Country Planning William Morrison
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil
William Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, GCMG, MC, KStJ, PC, QC , the 14th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Scotland and educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh. He joined the British Army in the First World War and served with an artillery regiment...

Conservative 30 December 1942 Minister designate until 7 February 1943
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Town and Country Planning Henry Strauss Conservative 30 December 1942  
Arthur Jenkins
Arthur Jenkins (politician)
Arthur Jenkins was a Welsh trade unionist and Labour Party politician.Jenkins was a coal miner's agent who studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Ruskin College, Oxford, before becoming Vice-President of the South Wales Miners Federation...

Labour 22 March 1945  
President of the Board of Trade Sir Andrew Rae Duncan Conservative 12 May 1940  
Oliver Lyttelton
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos KG, PC, DSO, MC was a British businessman who was brought into government during the Second World War, holding a number of ministerial posts.-Background, education and military career:...

Conservative 3 October 1940  
Sir Andrew Rae Duncan Conservative 29 June 1941  
John Llewellin
John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin
Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin GBE, PC, MC, TD was a British army officer, Conservative Party politician and minister in Winston Churchill's war government.-Background:...

Conservative 4 February 1942  
Hugh Dalton
Hugh Dalton
Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton PC was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947, when he was implicated in a political scandal involving budget leaks....

Labour 22 February 1942  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in the United Kingdom was a member of Parliament assigned to assist the Board of Trade and its President with administration and liaison with Parliament. It replaced the Vice-President of the Board of Trade....

Gwilym Lloyd-George
Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby
Major Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby PC TD was a British politician and cabinet minister. A younger son of Prime Minister David Lloyd George, he served as Home Secretary from 1954 to 1957....

Liberal 15 May 1940 Also Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food from 22 October 1940
Charles Waterhouse
Charles Waterhouse (English politician)
Captain Charles Waterhouse PC MC was a British Conservative politician.-Biography:Born in Salford, the second surviving son of Thomas Crompton Waterhouse, of Lomberdale Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, he was educated at Cheltenham and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating with an MA degree in...

Conservative 8 February 1941  
Secretary for Overseas Trade
Secretary for Overseas Trade
The Secretary for Overseas Trade was a junior Ministerial position in the United Kingdom government from 1917 until 1953, subordinate to the President of the Board of Trade. The office was replaced by the Minister of State for Trade on 3 September 1953....

Harcourt Johnstone
Harcourt Johnstone
Harcourt 'Crinks' Johnstone was a British Liberal Party politician.-Early Life & Education:Johnstone was born in London in 1895, the son of the Hon. Sir Alan Johnstone, a British diplomat, and his American wife Antoinette Pinchot. His nickname 'Crinks' is alleged to have derived from the wrinkled...

Liberal 15 May 1940  
Secretary for Mines
Secretary for Mines
The position of Secretary for Mines is a now defunct office in the United Kingdom Government, associated with the Board of Trade. Responsibility for mines now lies with the Department of Trade and Industry and the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry....

David Grenfell
David Grenfell
David Rhys Grenfell PC, CBE, LlD was a British Member of Parliament. He represented the Gower constituency for the Labour Party from 1922 to 1959.-Early life:...

Labour 15 May 1940  
Secretary for Petroleum Geoffrey Lloyd Conservative 15 May 1940 – 3 June 1942 Combined into Minister for Fuel, Light and Power
Minister of Transport
Secretary of State for Transport
The Secretary of State for Transport is the member of the cabinet responsible for the British Department for Transport. The role has had a high turnover as new appointments are blamed for the failures of decades of their predecessors...

Sir John Reith
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith, KT, GCVO, GBE, CB, TD, PC was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom...

 
National 14 May 1940  
John Moore-Brabazon
John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara
John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, GBE, MC, PC was an English aviation pioneer and Conservative politician...

Conservative 3 October 1940 became Minister of War Transport 1 May 1941
Minister of War Production
Minister of Production
The Minister of Production was a British government position that existed during the Second World War, heading the Ministry of Production.Initially the post was called "Minister of War Production" when it was created in February 1942, but the first Minister, Lord Beaverbrook, resigned after only...

The Lord Beaverbrook
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Bt, PC, was a Canadian-British business tycoon, politician, and writer.-Early career in Canada:...

Conservative 4 February 1942 Office vacant 19 February 1942
Oliver Lyttelton
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos KG, PC, DSO, MC was a British businessman who was brought into government during the Second World War, holding a number of ministerial posts.-Background, education and military career:...

Conservative 12 March 1942 Post retitled Minister of Production upon appointment
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Production George Garro-Jones Labour 10 September 1942  
Secretary of State for War
Secretary of State for War
The position of Secretary of State for War, commonly called War Secretary, was a British cabinet-level position, first held by Henry Dundas . In 1801 the post became that of Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The position was re-instated in 1854...

Anthony Eden
Anthony Eden
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC was a British Conservative politician, who was Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957...

Conservative 11 May 1940  
David Margesson
David Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson
Henry David Reginald Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson PC was a British Conservative politician most popularly remembered for his tenure as Government Chief Whip in the 1930s. His reputation was of a stern disciplinarian who was one of the harshest and most effective whips...

Conservative 22 December 1940  
Sir P. J. Grigg National 22 February 1942  
Under-Secretary of State for War
Under-Secretary of State for War
The position of Under-Secretary of State for War was a British government position, first applied to Evan Nepean . In 1801 the offices for War and the Colonies were merged and the post became that of Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies...

Sir Henry Page Croft
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft was a British Conservative Party politician.-Early life and family:He was born at Fanhams Hall in Ware, Hertfordshire, England. He was the son of Richard Benyon Croft a naval officer and a major benefactor of the Richard Hale School, and Anne Elizabeth...

Conservative 17 May 1940 – 23 May 1945 Lord Croft
Sir Edward Grigg
Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham
Edward William Macleay Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham, KCMG, KCVO, DSO, MC, PC was a British colonial administrator and politician.-Early years:...

Conservative 17 May 1940 – 4 March 1942  
Arthur Henderson
Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley
Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley, PC was a British Labour Party politician.Arthur Henderson was the son of Arthur Henderson, who was Leader of the Labour Party between 1908-1910, 1914-17 and 1931-1932.-Parliament:...

Labour 4 March 1942 – 7 February 1943  
Financial Secretary to the War Office
Financial Secretary to the War Office
Financial Secretary to the War Office was an office of the British government, the financial secretary of the War Office department.The post was combined with that of Under-Secretary of State for War from 17 April 1947....

Richard Law
Richard Law, 1st Baron Coleraine
Richard Kidston Law, 1st Baron Coleraine PC was a British Conservative politician. He was the youngest son of former Conservative Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law and his wife Annie. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St...

Conservative 17 May 1940  
Duncan Sandys
Duncan Sandys
Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH PC was a British politician and a minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s...

Conservative 20 July 1941  
Arthur Henderson
Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley
Arthur Henderson, Baron Rowley, PC was a British Labour Party politician.Arthur Henderson was the son of Arthur Henderson, who was Leader of the Labour Party between 1908-1910, 1914-17 and 1931-1932.-Parliament:...

Labour 7 February 1943  
Minister of War Transport The Lord Leathers Conservative 1 May 1941  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of War Transport Frederick Montague
Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell
Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell CBE was a British Labour Party politician.Amwell was the son of John Montague and Mary Ann Manderson. He worked as a newsboy and as a shop assistant and later became a copywriter and political agent...

Labour 18 May 1940 – 1 May 1941
John Llewellin
John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin
Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin GBE, PC, MC, TD was a British army officer, Conservative Party politician and minister in Winston Churchill's war government.-Background:...

Conservative 1 May 1941 – 4 February 1942  
Sir Arthur Salter Independent 29 June 1941 – 4 February 1942  
First Commissioner of Works
First Commissioner of Works
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The Lord Tryon
George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon
Major George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon, PC was a British Conservative politician who served in a number of ministerial positions in the inter-war years....

Conservative 18 May 1940  
Sir John Reith
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
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National 3 October 1940 Minister of Works and Buildings, and 1st Commissioner. Later Lord Reith
The Lord Portal
Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal
Wyndham Raymond Portal, 1st Viscount Portal PC GCMG DSO MVO was a British politician.The eldest son of Sir William Wyndam Portal, 2nd Baronet, and Florence Elizabeth Mary Glyn CBE, daughter of Hon...

Conservative 22 February 1942 Renamed Minister of Works and Planning from 11 February 1942, and Minister of Works from February 1943
Duncan Sandys
Duncan Sandys
Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH PC was a British politician and a minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s...

Conservative 21 November 1944  
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Works George Hicks
George Hicks
Ernest George Hicks was a British trades unionist and Labour Party politician.Hicks was born in 1879 in Venham Dean, Hampshire. Along with fellow bricklayers Jack Fitzgerald and F. K. Cadman, he was one of the founding members of the Socialist Party of Great Britain in June 1904...

Labour 19 November 1940 – 23 May 1945  
Henry Strauss Conservative 4 March 1942 – 30 December 1942  
Attorney General
Attorney General for England and Wales
Her Majesty's Attorney General for England and Wales, usually known simply as the Attorney General, is one of the Law Officers of the Crown. Along with the subordinate Solicitor General for England and Wales, the Attorney General serves as the chief legal adviser of the Crown and its government in...

Sir Donald Somervell Conservative 15 May 1940  
Solicitor General
Solicitor General for England and Wales
Her Majesty's Solicitor General for England and Wales, often known as the Solicitor General, is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, and the deputy of the Attorney General, whose duty is to advise the Crown and Cabinet on the law...

Sir William Jowitt
William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt
William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt PC, KC , was a British Labour politician and lawyer, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.-Background and education:...

Labour 15 May 1940  
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir GCVO, PC, KC, , known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as The Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions...

Conservative 4 March 1942  
Lord Advocate
Lord Advocate
Her Majesty's Advocate , known as the Lord Advocate , is the chief legal officer of the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland for both civil and criminal matters that fall within the devolved powers of the Scottish Parliament...

Thomas Cooper
Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross
Thomas Mackay Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross PC, KC was a Scottish politician, judge and historian.-Background and education:...

Conservative 15 May 1940  
James Reid
James Reid, Baron Reid
James Scott Cumberland Reid, Baron Reid, CH, KC FRSE was a Scottish Unionist politician and judge. His reputation is as one of the most outstanding judges of the 20th century....

Conservative 5 June 1941  
Solicitor General for Scotland
Solicitor General for Scotland
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James Reid
James Reid, Baron Reid
James Scott Cumberland Reid, Baron Reid, CH, KC FRSE was a Scottish Unionist politician and judge. His reputation is as one of the most outstanding judges of the 20th century....

Conservative 15 May 1940  
David King Murray
David King Murray
Sir Thomas David King Murray, known as David King Murray, Kt KC LLD MA BSc LLB FRSE was a Scottish politician and judge....

Conservative 5 June 1941 Knighted
Treasurer of the Household
Treasurer of the Household
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Robert Grimston
Robert Grimston, 1st Baron Grimston of Westbury
Robert Villiers Grimston, 1st Baron Grimston of Westbury was a British Conservative politician.The eldest son of the Rev. and Hon...

Conservative 17 May 1940  
Sir James Edmondson Conservative 12 March 1942  
Comptroller of the Household
Comptroller of the Household
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William Whiteley
William Whiteley (politician)
William Whiteley, CH, PC, DL was the Labour Member of Parliament for Blaydon in County Durham.William Whiteley, not to be confused with the founder of the Department Store of the same name, was a Durham miner by background and lodge official also...

Labour 17 May 1940  
William John
William John (politician)
William John was a Welsh Labour Party politician, and a Member of Parliament for thirty years.At the Rhondda West by-election, 1920, he was elected as MP for the safe Labour constituency of Rhondda West, and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1950 general election.In...

Labour 12 March 1942  
George Mathers
George Mathers
George Mathers, 1st Baron Mathers KT, PC, DL was a Scottish trade unionist and Labour Party politician...

Labour 2 October 1944  
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household
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Sir James Edmondson Conservative 17 May 1940  
William Whytehead Boulton Conservative 12 March 1942  
Arthur Young Conservative 13 July 1944  
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
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The Lord Snell
Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell
Henry Snell, 1st Baron Snell CH, PC , was a British socialist politician and campaigner. He served in government under Ramsay MacDonald and Winston Churchill, and as the Labour Party's leader in the House of Lords in the late 1930s.-Background:Born in Sutton-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, the son of...

Labour 31 May 1940 – 21 April 1944  
The Earl Fortescue
Hugh Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue
Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue KG, PC was a British peer and Conservative politician.Fortescue was the eldest son of Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue, and his wife the Hon. Emily , and succeeded his father in the earldom in 1932...

Conservative 22 March 1945  
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
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The Lord Templemore
Arthur Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore
Arthur Claud Spencer Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore, KCVO, OBE, DSO - was a British soldier and politician...

Conservative 31 May 1940  
Lords in Waiting The Earl Fortescue
Hugh Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue
Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue KG, PC was a British peer and Conservative politician.Fortescue was the eldest son of Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue, and his wife the Hon. Emily , and succeeded his father in the earldom in 1932...

Conservative 31 May 1940 – 22 March 1945  
The Viscount Clifden
Francis Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden
Francis Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden , was a British Liberal politician.Clifden was the second but eldest surviving son Francis Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden (14 April 1883-15 July 1966), was a British Liberal politician.Clifden was the second but eldest surviving son...

Liberal 31 May 1940 – 23 May 1945  
The Lord Alness
Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness
Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness GBE, PC, KC, DL was a Scottish lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He served as Secretary for Scotland between 1916 and 1922 in David Lloyd George's coalition government and as Lord Justice Clerk between 1922 and 1933.-Background and education:Munro was born in...

Liberal National 31 May 1940 – 23 May 1945  
The Marquess of Normanby
Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby
Oswald Constantine John Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby, KG, CBE was a British peer and philanthropist for blind people.-Early life:...

Conservative 22 March 1945 – 23 May 1945

Source

  • D. Butler and G. Butler, Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900–2000.
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