Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe PC

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

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 (24 February 1901 – 18 September 1984) was a British

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 Conservative Party

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 politician.

He was Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Rushcliffe

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 from 1934 to 1945, for the City of London

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 from 1945 to 1950, and for Blackburn West

Blackburn West (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1950 to 1955.

In the wartime

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 government under Winston Churchill

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, he was Minister of Supply

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 in 1942, and Financial Secretary to the Treasury

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 from 1942 to 1944. He became a Privy Counsellor in 1944, and served as Chairman of the Conservative Party

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 from 1944 to 1946.

After retiring from the House of Commons

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 at the 1955 general election

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, Assheton was elevated to the peerage as Baron Clitheroe

Baron Clitheroe

Baron Clitheroe of Downham in the County of Lancaster is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1955 for the Conservative politician Ralph Assheton, who had previously served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury...

 on 20 June 1955. Three months after being raised to the peerage he succeeded his father Sir Ralph Cokayne Assheton as 2nd Baronet, of Downham, Lancashire

Assheton Baronets

-Assheton Baronets of Lever, Lancs :*Sir Ralph Assheton, 1st Baronet*Sir Ralph Assheton, 2nd Baronet*Sir Edmund Assheton, 3rd Baronet*Sir John Assheton, 4th Baronet...

. He later served as Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire

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, from 1971 to 1976.

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