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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 72, 22 September 1943, Page 4

years (1911-19) he was a member, for Woolwich, of the London County Council. He has represented Woolwich West in Parliament since 1918. Sir Kingsley's figure, which made up in breadth and rotundity what it lacked in height, allied to his thin, draw-ing-room-ballad voice, combined to make him one of the jovial figures of Parliament. When he was in Opposition he used to stir the supporters of the Labour Government to more furious anger than any other man in the House. There were several subjects— the two especial ones being housing and insurance—about which he knew all that was necessary to know. It was said that he had the keen and agile brain of a lawyer, the jolly appearance of a Chesterton minor, a sense of humour without which he would not have been half the man he was, and a capacity for giving and taking hard knocks in a debate, which often stood him in good stead. For many years Sir Kingsley was connected with the Ministry of Health, and he was in charge of the Department from 1935 to 1938, having previously been Post-master-General (1931-35), and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (1931). He was Secretary of Air from 1338 till April, 1940. when he was appointed Lord Privy Seal. A month later he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Churchill Government. __J