Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport
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Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport was a junior position at the British
Ministry of Transport
. The office was renamed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport in 1941, but resumed its former name at the end of the Second World War.
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United Kingdom
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Ministry of Transport
Department for Transport
In the United Kingdom, the Department for Transport is the government department responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which are not devolved...
. The office was renamed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport in 1941, but resumed its former name at the end of the Second World War.
Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Transport, 1924-1941
- John Moore-BrabazonJohn Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of TaraJohn Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, GBE, MC, PC was an English aviation pioneer and Conservative politician...
11 November 1924-14 January 1927 - vacant 14 January 1927-4 June 1929
- John Russell, 2nd Earl Russell 11 June 1929-1 December 1929
- Arthur PonsonbyArthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of ShulbredeArthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede was a British politician, writer, and social activist. He was the third son of Sir Henry Ponsonby, Private Secretary to Queen Victoria, and the great-grandson of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough...
1 December 1929-1 March 1931 - John Allen Parkinson 1 March 1931-24 August 1931
- George Gillett 4 September 1931-25 November 1931
- Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth 25 November 1931-29 September 1932
- Cuthbert HeadlamCuthbert HeadlamSir Cuthbert Morley Headlam, 1st Baronet, DSO, OBE, TD, DL was a British Conservative politician.Born in Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire, Headlam was educated at King's School, Canterbury and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was a Clerk in the House of Lords 1897-1924 and became a barrister, Inner...
29 September 1932-5 July 1934 - vacant 5 July 1934-18 June 1935
- Austin HudsonSir Austin Hudson, 1st BaronetSir Austin Uvedale Morgan Hudson, 1st Baronet was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom....
18 June 1935-14 July 1939 - Robert BernaysRobert BernaysRobert Hamilton Bernays was a Liberal Party, and later Liberal National, politician in the United Kingdom who served as a Member of Parliament from 1931 to 1945....
14 July 1939-18 May 1940 - Frederick MontagueFrederick Montague, 1st Baron AmwellFrederick 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...
18 May 1940-1 May 1941
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport, 1941-1945
- John Jestyn LlewellinJohn Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron LlewellinColonel 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:...
1 May 1941-4 February 1942 - Sir Arthur Salter 29 June 1941-4 February 1942
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- Peter ThorneycroftPeter ThorneycroftGeorge Edward Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft CH, PC , was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1957 and 1958.-Biography:...
26 May 1945-26 July 1945
Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Transport, 1945-1970
- George StraussGeorge StraussGeorge Russell Strauss, Baron Strauss PC was a long-serving British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament for 46 years and was Father of the House of Commons from 1974 to 1979....
4 August 1945-7 October 1947 - James CallaghanJames CallaghanLeonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC , was a British Labour politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980...
7 October 1947-2 March 1950 - George William Lucas, 1st Baron Lucas of Chilworth 2 March 1950-26 October 1951
- Joseph Gurney BraithwaiteJoseph Gurney BraithwaiteSir Gurney Braithwaite, 1st Baronet was an English Conservative Party politician.Gurney Braithwaite came from a Quaker family and was educated at Downs School, Colwall and Bootham School, York. During World War I, he served in the Royal Navy at the Suvla Bay landing, Gallipoli, and in Palestine...
5 November 1951-1 November 1953 - Reginald MaudlingReginald MaudlingReginald Maudling was a British politician who held several Cabinet posts, including Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had been spoken of as a prospective Conservative leader since 1955, and was twice seriously considered for the post; he was Edward Heath's chief rival in 1965...
18 April 1952-24 November 1952 - John ProfumoJohn ProfumoBrigadier John Dennis Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo CBE , informally known as Jack Profumo , was a British politician. His title, 5th Baron, which he did not use, was Italian. Although Profumo held an increasingly responsible series of political posts in the 1950s, he is best known today for his...
24 November 1952-9 January 1957 - High MolsonHugh Molson, Baron MolsonHugh Molson, Baron Molson PC was a British Conservative politician.Born in Chelmsford, Essex, the only surviving son of Major John Elsdale Molson, Member of Parliament for Gainsborough from 1918–23, and Mary Leeson, he was educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne and Dartmouth, at Lancing,...
11 November 1953-9 January 1957 - Richard Nugent 18 January 1957-22 October 1959
- Airey NeaveAirey NeaveAirey Middleton Sheffield Neave DSO, OBE, MC was a British soldier, barrister and politician.During World War II, Neave was one of the few servicemen to escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle...
18 January 1957-16 January 1959 - John HayJohn Hay (UK politician)John Albert Hay was a British Conservative politician.Hay was born in Brighton, Sussex to John Edward Hay and May Hollingdale. He was brother to author Peter Thomas Hay....
16 January 1959-3 May 1963 - John Charles Compton Cavendish, 5th Baron Chesham 22 October 1959-16 October 1964
- John Hughes-HallettJohn Hughes-HallettVice-Admiral John Hughes-Hallett was a British naval commander and politician. He was the Naval Commander during the Dieppe Raid of 1942.-Biography:...
26 April 1961-16 October 1964 - Tam GalbraithTam GalbraithThe Hon. Sir Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, KBE , was a British Conservative politician....
3 May 1963-16 October 1964 - George Lindgren, Baron LindgrenGeorge Lindgren, Baron LindgrenGeorge Samuel Lindgren, JP, DL was a British Labour Party politician.Born in Islington, London, at the 1935 general election, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the safe Conservative seat of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, coming a distant second with 36.7% of the votes.At the 1945 general election,...
20 October 1964-10 January 1966 - Stephen SwinglerStephen SwinglerStephen Thomas Swingler, PC was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1950, and from 1951 to 1969....
20 October 1964-29 August 1967 - John MorrisJohn Morris, Baron Morris of AberavonJohn Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, KG, PC, QC is a retired British politician. He was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1959 to 2001 and Secretary of State for Wales from 1974 to 1979.-Background and education:...
10 January 1966-6 April 1968 - Neil George Carmichael 29 August 1967-13 October 1969
- Robert BrownRobert Brown (English politician)Robert Crofton Brown was an English Labour Party politician.Brown was a district gas inspector with the Northern Gas Board and a branch secretary of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers...
6 April 1968-19 June 1970 - Albert MurrayAlbert Murray, Baron Murray of GravesendAlbert James Murray, Baron Murray of Gravesend was a British Labour Party politician.At the 1964 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament for Gravesend in Kent, a marginal seat which was normally won by the party forming the government...
13 October 1969-19 June 1970 - Michael HeseltineMichael HeseltineMichael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC is a British businessman, Conservative politician and patron of the Tory Reform Group. He was a Member of Parliament from 1966 to 2001 and was a prominent figure in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major...
24 June 1970-15 October 1970