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United Kingdom Postmaster General

The Postmaster General in the United Kingdom is a defunct ministerial

Minister of the Crown

Minister of the Crown is the formal constitutional term used in the Commonwealth realms to describe a Minister to the reigning sovereign. The term indicates that the minister serves in theory At Her Majesty's Pleasure, and advises the monarch, or viceroy, on how to exercise the Crown prerogatives relative to the minister's department or...
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 telegraph

Telegraphy

Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters. Radiotelegraphy or wireless telegraphy transmits messages using radio....
s. This would subsequently extend to telecommunications and broadcasting

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is distribution of Sound and/or video Signalling s which transmit programs to an audience. The audience may be the general public or a relatively large sub-audience, such as children or young adults....
.

The office was abolished in 1969 by the Post Office Act 1969. A new public authority governed by a chairman was established under the name of the "Post Office

Royal Mail

Royal Mail is the national mail of the United Kingdom. Royal Mail Holdings plc owns Royal Mail Group Limited, which in turns operates the brands Royal Mail , Parcelforce and General Logistics Systems....
." The position of "Postmaster General" was replaced with "Minister of Posts and Telecommunications"; subsequently such functions generally fall within the remit of the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is a UK cabinet position with responsibility for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport....
.

ngland, the monarch's letters to his subjects are known to have been carried by relays of couriers as long ago as the 15th century.

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The Postmaster General in the United Kingdom is a defunct ministerial

Minister of the Crown

Telegraphy

Broadcasting

Royal Mail

Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is a UK cabinet position with responsibility for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport....
.

History

In England, the monarch's letters to his subjects are known to have been carried by relays of couriers as long ago as the 15th century. In 1510, Sir Brian Tuke was appointed as "Master of the King's Post". In 1609 it was decreed that letters could only be carried and delivered by persons authorised by the Postmaster General. 1660 saw the establishment of the General Letter Office, this would later become the General Post Office (GPO). A similar position evolved in the Kingdom of Scotland

Kingdom of Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland was a state in North-West Europe which existed from 843 until 1707. It occupied the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shared a Anglo-Scottish border to the south with the Kingdom of England, with which it was united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, under the terms of the Acts of Union 1707, in 170...
prior to the 1707 Act of Union

Acts of Union 1707

The Acts of Union were a pair of Act of Parliament passed in 1707 by the Parliament of Scotland and the Parliament of England to put into effect the terms of the Treaty of Union that had been agreed on 22 July 1706, following negotiation between commissioners representing the parliaments of the two countries....
.

In 1657 an Act entitled 'Postage of England, Scotland and Ireland Settled' set up a system for the British Isles and enacted the position of Postmaster General. The Act also reasserted the postal monopoly for letter delivery and for post horses. After the Restoration

English Restoration

The English Restoration, or simply The Restoration began in 1660 when the English monarchy, Scottish monarchy and Irish monarchy were restored under Charles II of England after the Interregnum that followed the English Civil War....
in 1660, a further Act (12 Car II, c.35) confirmed this, the previous Cromwellian

Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell was an English people Military history of the United Kingdom and Politics of England leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....
Act being void.

Former Postmasters General of England and the UK

Henry Bishop 1660-1663
Daniel O'Neill
Daniel O'Neill (royalist)

Daniel O'Neill was an Ireland army officer, politician and courtier....
1663-1664
Katherine Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield
Katherine Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield

Katherine Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield was an Kingdom of England-born courtier at the Dutch Republic court of Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange and later to the The Restoration....
1664-1667
Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington
Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington

Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington Order of the Garter, Privy Council of England , was an England statesman.He was the son of Sir John Bennet of Dawley, Middlesex, and of Dorothy Crofts, was the younger brother of John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston, was baptized at Little Saxham, Suffolk, in 1618, and was educated at Westminster School and...
1667-1685
Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester
Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester

Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of England , was an English statesman and writer.The second son of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon and his wife, Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon, Hyde was a near contemporary of King Charles II of England....
1686-1689
John Wildman
John Wildman

Sir John Wildman was an England soldier and politician.Wildman was born in the Norfolk town of Wymondham, the son of Jeffrey and Dorothy Wildman....
1689-1691

Two Postmasters General

From 1691 to 1823 there were two Postmasters General, to divide the patronage between the Whigs and Tories.

Year	1st Postmaster-General		2nd Postmaster-General
1691		Sir Thomas Frankland Sir Thomas Frankland, 2nd Baronet Sir Thomas Frankland, 2nd Baronet , of Thirkelby in Yorkshire was an English Member of Parliament.He was the eldest son of Sir William Frankland, 1st Baronet, and succeeded to the baronetcy on 2 August 1697....		Sir Robert Cotton Sir Robert Cotton Sir Robert Cotton may refer to:Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, , English antiquarySir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Combermere , MP for Cheshire...
1708				Sir John Evelyn Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet of Wotton Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet , grandson of the famous diarist John Evelyn, was a British politician. He was Member of Parliament for Helston from 1708 to 1710, and joint Postmaster General of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1715....
1715		James Creggs		Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis
1720		Galfridus Walpole		Edward Carteret Edward Carteret Edward Carteret was a politician and served as Postmaster General of the United Kingdom from 1721 until his death.He was the third son of Philip Carteret FRS and younger brother of George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret....
1725		Edward Harrison Edward Harrison (British administrator) Edward Harrison was a United Kingdom aristocrat who served as the Madras Presidency from 11 July 1711 to 8 January 1717....
1733		Thomas Coke, 1st Baron Lovel Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation) Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, Order of the Bath was a wealthy England land-owner and patron of the arts. He is particularly noted for commissioning the design and construction of Holkham Hall in north Norfolk.... (Earl of Leicester from 1744)
1739				Sir John Eyles
1745				Everard Fawkener Everard Fawkener Sir Everard Fawkener was an English merchant and diplomat.Fawkener was born into a family of silk merchants. His father father, William was a leading member of the Levant Company....
1759		Robert Hampden, 4th Baron Trevor Robert Hampden, 1st Viscount Hampden Robert Hampden-Trevor, 1st Viscount Hampden was a British diplomat at The Hague and then joint Postmaster General of the United Kingdom.He was the eldest son of the second marriage of Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor and studied at Queens College, Oxford, graduating in 1725 and then becoming a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford....		William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough, Privy Council was a British British Whig Party politician, known as Viscount Duncannon from 1739 to 1758....
1762				John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont Privy Council of Great Britain , was a United Kingdom politician, political pamphleteer, and genealogist.The son of John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont and Catherine Parker , he was baptised at Westminster Palace, London....
1763				Thomas Villiers, 1st Baron Hyde Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a Kingdom of Great Britain politician and diplomat....
1765		Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham Thomas Robinson I, 1st Baron Grantham, Order of the Bath, Privy Council of Great Britain , was a Kingdom of Great Britain diplomatist and politician....		William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough, Privy Council was a British British Whig Party politician, known as Viscount Duncannon from 1739 to 1758....
1766		Wills Hill, 2nd Viscount Hillsborough Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, Privy Council of Great Britain , was a British politician of the Georgian era. He was usually called the Earl of Hillsborough in America when he served as Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1768?1772, a critical period leading toward the American Revolution....		Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer was an England Rake and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer and founder of The Hellfire Club....
1768		John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Privy Council of Great Britain, Fellow of the Royal Society succeeded his grandfather, the Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, in 1729, at the age of ten....
1771		Henry Carteret Henry Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret Henry Frederick Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council was a British politician.He was the second son of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth, and his second wife Louisa, daughter of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville.... (from 1784 Baron Carteret)
1782				The Viscount Barrington
1782				Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville , styled Lord Ossulston from 1753 to 1767, was a British nobleman, a collector of shells and a famous patron of Surrey cricket in the 1770s....
1783				Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley may refer to:Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley , second baron of the first creationThomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley , second baron of the second creation...
1784				Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville Charles Bennet, 4th Earl of Tankerville , styled Lord Ossulston from 1753 to 1767, was a British nobleman, a collector of shells and a famous patron of Surrey cricket in the 1770s....
1786				Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon Privy Council of the United Kingdom , was a Kingdom of Great Britain politician and diplomat....
1787				Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham
1789		John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland Knight of the Garter Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British Tory politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who served in most of the cabinets of the period, primarily as Lord Privy Seal....
1790		Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield Order of the Garter was the son of Arthur Charles Stanhope, of Mansfield Woodhouse and Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Charles Headlam of Kerby, Yorkshire, and cousin, godson and, later, adopted son of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield ....
1794				George Townshend, 1st Earl of Leicester George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend George Townshend, 2nd Marquess Townshend Privy Council of Great Britain Fellow of the Royal Society , known as Lord Ferrers of Chartley from 1770 to 1782 and as the Earl of Leicester from 1782 to 1807, was a United Kingdom Peerage and politician....
1798		William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland , England statesman, was a younger son of Robert Eden, 3rd Baronet, Eden Baronets, of Windlestone Hall, Durham, and of Mary, daughter of William Davison....
1799				George Leveson-Gower, Baron Gower George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was the son of the Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford....
1801				Lord Charles Spencer Lord Charles Spencer Lord Charles Spencer was a Great Britain politician.He was the second son of Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough. On 2 October 1762, he married Mary Beauclerk , daughter of Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere and sister of Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans, by whom he had three sons.....
1804		James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose Order of the Garter, Order of the Thistle was a Scottish nobleman and statesman.Known before his succession to the ducal title in 1790 as Marquess of Graham, he was Member of Parliament for Richmond from 1780, and for Great Bedwyn from 1784 to 1790....
1806	\|John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort John Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort John Joshua Proby, 1st Earl of Carysfort Order of St Patrick, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Fellow of the Royal Society , was an United Kingdom Whig Party politician....		Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Lord Hobart from 1793 to 1804, was a UK Tory politician of the late 18th and early 19th century....
1807		Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known from 1801 until 1805 as Lord Pelham, son of the 1st earl, was surveyor-general of ordnance in Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 2nd ministry , and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the coalition ministry of 1783 ....		John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a Peerage.Montagu was the eldest son of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich and was educated at Eton College....
1814				Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty
1816				James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was the son of James Cecil, 6th Earl of Salisbury....

A single Postmaster

In 1823 the idea of a Whig and a Tory sharing the post was abolished.

Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester
Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester

Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known from 1801 until 1805 as Lord Pelham, son of the 1st earl, was surveyor-general of ordnance in Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 2nd ministry , and Chief Secretary for Ireland in the coalition ministry of 1783 ....
- continuing in office alone
Lord Frederick Montagu 1826-1827
William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester
William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester

William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester , known as Viscount Mandeville from 1771 to 1783, was a United Kingdom hereditary peer, colonial administrator and politician....
1827-1830
Charles Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox 1830-1834
Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham 1834
William Wellesley-Pole, 1st Baron Maryborough
William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington

William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington Royal Guelphic Order Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known between 1821 and 1842 as The Lord Maryborough, was a Great Britain politician and an elder brother of the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington....
1834-1835
Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham 1835
Thomas William Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield 1835-1841
William Lowther, Viscount Lowther
William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale

William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Fellow of the Royal Society , was an England Conservative Party politician....
1841-1845
Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans
Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans

Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans, Order of the Bath , deputy lieutenant, Doctor of Laws , Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British politician....
1845-1846
Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde 1846-1852
Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke 1852
Charles John Canning, 2nd Viscount Canning 1853-1855
George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll 1855-1858
Charles Edward Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester 1858-1859
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin

James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, Order of the Thistle, Order of the Bath, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British colonial administrator and diplomat, best known as the man who ordered the complete destruction of the Old Summer Palace in the Second Opium War by 3,500 British soldiers and as the Governor...
1859-1860
Edward John Stanley, 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley 1860-1866
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose
James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose

James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose, Order of the Thistle, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a British politician. He was the only son of his James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose second marriage ....
1866-1868
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington 1868-1871
William Monsell 1871-1873
Lyon Playfair
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair

Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair, Order of the Bath, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Fellow of the Royal Society was a Scottish scientist and Parliament of Great Britainarian....
1873-1874
Lord John Manners 1874-1880
Henry Fawcett
Henry Fawcett

Henry Fawcett was a blindness England statesman and economist.He was born in Salisbury, and educated at King's College School and the University of Cambridge, where he became Fellow of Trinity Hall....
1880-1884
George John Shaw-Lefevre 1884-1885
Lord John Manners 1885-1886
George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton 1886
Henry Cecil Raikes
Henry Cecil Raikes

Henry Cecil Raikes was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.He was the son of Vicar Henry Raikes , Chancellor of the diocese of Chester and the grandson of Thomas Raikes, merchant and banker in London, who was Governor of the Bank of England and a personal friend of prime minister William Pitt the Younger....
1886-1891
Sir James Fergusson 1891-1892
Arnold Morley
Arnold Morley

Arnold Morley was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom....
1892-1895
Henry Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk 1895 -1900
Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry 1900-1902
Austen Chamberlain
Austen Chamberlain

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, Order of the Garter was a British statesman, Politics, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize....
1902-1903
Edward George Villiers Stanley, Lord Stanley 1903-1905
Sidney Buxton 1905-1910
Herbert Samuel 1910-1914
Charles Hobhouse
Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse

Sir Charles Hobhouse, 4th Baronet Territorial Decoration, Justice of the Peace was a British Liberal Party politician.The eldest son of Sir Charles Parry Hobhouse, 3rd Baronet, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, and served as a Lieutenant in the 60th Rifles from 1884-1890....
1914-1915
Herbert Samuel 1915-1916
Joseph Pease 1916
Albert Illingworth 1916-1921
Frederick Kellaway
Frederick Kellaway

Frederick George Kellaway Privy Council of the United Kingdom , often called F. G. Kellaway, was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom, and Member of Parliament for Bedford from United Kingdom general election, December 1910 to 1922....
1921-1922
Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain

Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British Conservative Party politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain is best known for appeasement foreign policy, in particular regarding his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany, and for his "containm...
1922-1923
Sir William Joynson-Hicks
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford

William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford, His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council , popularly known as Jix, was a United Kingdom solicitor and Conservative Party politician, most known for his tenure as Secretary of State for the Home Department, during which he gained a reputation for strict authoritarianism....
1923
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans
Laming Worthington-Evans

Sir Worthington Laming Worthington-Evans, 1st Baronet Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire was a UK Conservative Party politician....
1923-1924
Vernon Hartshorn
Vernon Hartshorn

Vernon Hartshorn was a British Labour Party politician.Hartshorn was President of the South Wales Miners' Federation, and a member of the National Executive of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain....
1924
Sir William Mitchell-Thomson 1924-1929
Hastings Lees-Smith
Hastings Lees-Smith

Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith was a United Kingdom Labour Party politician who was briefly in the Cabinet in 1931. He was the acting Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 1940 during the time Clement Attlee was in government....
1929-1931
Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Fellow of the Royal Society was a British people politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955....
1931
Sir William Ormsby-Gore
William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech

William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech Knight of the Garter Order of St Michael and St George Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known until 1938 as William Ormsby-Gore, was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and banker....
1931
Sir Kingsley Wood
Kingsley Wood

Sir Howard Kingsley Wood was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was first elected to office as member of the London County Council in 1911, and was elected to parliament in 1918....
1931-1935
Geoffrey Tryon 1935-1940
William Morrison
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil

William Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, Order of St Michael and St George, Military Cross, Venerable Order of St John, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen's Counsel , 14th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Scotland and educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh....
1940-1942
Harry Crookshank
Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank

Henry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, Order of the Companions of Honour Privy Council , known as Harry Crookshank, was a British Conservative Party politician....
1942-1945
William Francis Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel 1945-1947
Wilfred Paling
Wilfred Paling

Wilfred Paling was a United Kingdom Labour Party politician.He was born at Maarehay, near Ripley, Derbyshire, Derbyshire, and was educated at Ripley Elementary School....
1947-1950
Ness Edwards
Ness Edwards

Ness Edwards was a Wales Labour Party politician.A trade unionist, Ness Edwards was imprisoned in 1917 as a conscientious objector to the conscription of the First World War....
1950-1951
Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr
Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr

Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr, Order of the British Empire, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , known as Lord Buckhurst from 1900 until 1915 , was a United Kingdom National Labour Party politician in the 1930s....
1951-1955
Charles Hill
Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton

Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton was a British Administrator of the Government, medical doctor and television.Charles Hill was born in Islington, London and was educated at St Olave's Grammar School in Southwark, London....
1955-1957
Ernest Marples
Ernest Marples

Ernest Marples, Baron Marples was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician, who served as United Kingdom Postmaster General and Secretary of State for Transport....
1957-1959
Reginald Bevins
Reginald Bevins

Reginald Bevins was a United Kingdom politician who served as a Liverpool Member of Parliament for fourteen years. A lower-middle class Conservative Party , he served in the governments of the 1950s and 1960s, playing an important role in establishing independent British television....
1959-1964
Tony Benn
Tony Benn

Anthony "Tony" Neil Wedgwood Benn , formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a United Kingdom socialist politician and the current President of the Stop the War Coalition....
1964-1966
Edward Short 1966-1968
Roy Mason
Roy Mason

Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, Privy Council of the United Kingdom is an United Kingdom Labour Party politician and former Cabinet minister....
1968
John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse

John Thomson Stonehouse was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is perhaps most famous for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974....
1968-1969