Secretary for Overseas Trade
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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
Minister of State for Trade
The Minister of State for Trade is an executive position in the Government of the United Kingdom, in both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...
on 3 September 1953.
Secretaries for Overseas Trade, 1917-1953
| Name | Entered office | Left office |
|---|---|---|
| Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, Bt | 1917 | 1919 |
| Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood PC, KC , known as Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt, between 1915 and 1929 and as The Lord Greenwood between 1929 and 1937, was a Canadian-born British lawyer and politician... |
1919 | 1920 |
| F. G. Kellaway Frederick Kellaway Frederick George Kellaway PC , often called F. G. Kellaway, was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom, and Member of Parliament for Bedford from December 1910 to 1922.... |
1920 | 1921 |
| Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton GBE, CH, MC, PC , known as Philip Lloyd-Greame until 1924 and as The Viscount Swinton from 1935 until 1955, was a prominent British Conservative politician from the 1920s until the 1950s.-Background and early life:Born as Philip Lloyd-Graeme, he was the... |
1921 | 1922 |
| Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Bt William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford PC, PC , DL , known as Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Bt, from 1919 to 1929 and popularly known as Jix, was an English solicitor and Conservative Party politician, best known as a long-serving and controversial Home Secretary from 1924 to 1929, during which... |
1922 | March 1923 |
| Albert Buckley Albert Buckley Albert Buckley DSO , was a British Conservative politician.Buckley entered Parliament for Waterloo in the 1918 general election. He held office under Andrew Bonar Law as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1922 to 1923 and under Bonar Law and later Stanley Baldwin as Secretary for Overseas Trade... |
March 1923 | November 1923 |
| Vacant | November 1923 | 1924 |
| William Lunn William Lunn William Lunn was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.He was elected at the 1918 general election as Member of Parliament for the newly-created Rothwell constituency in West Yorkshire, and held the seat until he died in office in 1942, aged 69.In 1924, Lunn served in Ramsay... |
1924 | 1924 |
| Arthur Samuel Arthur Samuel, 1st Baron Mancroft Arthur Michael Samuel, 1st Baron Mancroft , was a British Conservative politician.Lord Mancroft was the eldest son of Benjamin Samuel of Norwich and Rosetta Haldinstein , and grandson of Michael Samuel , all of them Ashkenazi... |
1924 | 1927 |
| Douglas Hacking Douglas Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking Douglas Hewitt Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking OBE, JP, PC was a British Conservative politician.Educated at Giggleswick School and Manchester University, he was commissioned in the East Lancashire Regiment in August 1914; served two years in France... |
1927 | 1929 |
| George Gillett | 1929 | 1931 |
| Sir Hilton Young | 1931 | 1931 |
| John Colville John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir David John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir PC GCIE was a Scottish Unionist politician, and industrialist... |
1931 | 1935 |
| Euan Wallace Euan Wallace Captain David Euan Wallace, MC, MP, PC was a British Conservative politician who briefly served as Minister of Transport during World War II... |
1935 | 1937 |
| 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.... |
1937 | 1940 |
| Geoffrey Shakespeare Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, 1st Baronet Sir Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, 1st Baronet PC was a British Liberal Party politician.Born in Norwich, the second son of Rev. J. H. Shakespeare, he was educated at Highgate School. He served in World War I. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he graduated with an MA and an LLB degree... |
1940 | 1940 |
| 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... |
1940 | 1945 |
| Spencer Summers Spencer Summers Sir Spencer Summers was a British Conservative politician. In 1945, he was Secretary for Overseas Trade in the post-war caretaker government. In 1946 he also assumed the role of the first chairman of the Outward Bound Trust... |
1945 | 1945 |
| Hilary Marquand Hilary Marquand Hilary Adair Marquand was a British Labour Party politician.He was educated at Cardiff High School and at University College, Cardiff where he studied history and economics... |
1945 | 1947 |
| Harold Wilson Harold Wilson James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC was a British Labour Member of Parliament, Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the... |
1947 | 1947 |
| Arthur Bottomley | 1947 | 1951 |
| Henry Hopkinson Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton Henry Lennox D'Aubigne Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton PC , was a British diplomat and Conservative politician.Colyton was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and then joined the Diplomatic Service... |
1951 | 1952 |
| Harry Mackeson Sir Harry Mackeson, 1st Baronet Sir Harry Ripley Mackeson, 1st Baronet , was a British soldier and Conservative politician.Mackeson was the son of Henry Mackeson and Ella Cecil Ripley. He served in the Royal Scots Greys regiment of the British Army and achieved the rank of Brigadier... |
1952 | 3 September 1953 |