Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food
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The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food Control, later the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food was a junior Ministerial post in the Government of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1921 and then from 1939 to 1954. The post supported the Minister of Food Control, later the Minister of Food
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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...
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Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Food Control, 1916-1921
| Name | Entered office | Left office |
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| Charles Bathurst Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe -External links:*... |
1916 | 1917 |
| John Robert Clynes John Robert Clynes John Robert Clynes was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for 35 years, and led the party in its breakthrough at the 1922 general election... |
1917 | 1918 |
| Waldorf Astor Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor was an American-born British politician and newspaper proprietor.-Early life:... |
1918 | 1919 |
| Charles McCurdy Charles McCurdy Charles Albert McCurdy was a British Liberal Member of Parliament and minister in the Lloyd George Coalition Government. He was made a member of the Privy Council in 1920.... |
1919 | 1920 |
| William Mitchell-Thomson William Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baron Selsdon William Lowson Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baron Selsdon KBE PC , known as Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, 2nd Baronet, from 1918 to 1932, was a British politician.... |
1920 | 1921 |
Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Food, 1939-1954
| Name | Entered office | Left office |
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| 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:... |
1939 | 1940 |
| Robert Boothby | 1940 | 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.... |
1940 | 1942 |
| William Mabane | 1942 | 1945 |
| Florence Horsbrugh Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh, GBE, PC was a Scottish Unionist Party and Conservative Party politician.... |
1945 | 1945 |
| Edith Summerskill | 1945 | 1950 |
| Stanley Evans Stanley Evans Stanley Norman Evans was a British industrialist and Labour Party politician. He served very briefly as an Agriculture Minister in the post-war Attlee government but was forced to resign when he claimed that farmers were being "featherbedded"... |
1950 | 1950 |
| Fred Willey Frederick Willey Frederick Thomas Willey was a British Labour politician.Willey was educated at Johnston School and St. John's College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar in 1936... |
1950 | 1951 |
| Charles Hill Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton PC was a British administrator, doctor and television executive.Charles Hill was born in Islington, London and was educated at St Olave's Grammar School in Southwark, London. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge where he gained a first class degree... |
1951 | 18 October 1954 |