BRITISH PARLIAMENT

Evening Star, Issue 18785, 8 November 1924, Page 4

BRITISH PARLIAMENT

MR BALDWIN'S MINISTERS. ADDITIONAL APPOINTMENTS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 6, The following appointments (including some published yesterday) are officially announced: —■ Mr Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister. Mr L. -0. Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India. Mr Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons. Mr W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty. Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Air. Sir L. Worthington Evans, Secretary of State for War. Sir Phillip Lloyd-Greame, President of the Board of Trade. Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs. Viscount Cave, Lord Chancellor. The Marquess Ourzon, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords. The Marquess of Salisbury, Lord Privy Seal. Sir A. Stdel-Maltland, Minister of Labor. Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education. Sir Douglas Hogg, Attorney-General. Mr Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health. Mr E. F. L. Wood, Minister of Agriculture. Sir John Gilmour, Secretary of State for Scotland. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

Sir Laming Worthington Evans during the war held a number of offices in the Cabinet connected with the administration of military affairs, and in 1921-22 he was Secretary of State for War. When Mr Baldwin became Prime Minister he was appointed Postmaster-General. The Earl of Derby was the last Conservative War Minister. Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame served in the war. In 1920 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, and in 1922, bo became President of the Board of Trade, an office which he retained under Mr Baldwin. Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, who replaces Mr Bridgeman at the Homo Office, entered the Conservative Ministry in 1922 as , Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade. In 1923 he was appointed Postmaster-General and PaymasterGeneral. Later he became Financial Secretary to the Treasury, with a seat in the Cabinet, and finally Minister of Health. _ Viscount Cave was Horne Secretary in the Coalition Government, and later Lord Chancellor, a position which he retained m Mr Baldwin’s Cabinet. He is recognised as a barrister of great, ability. ... Lord Gurzon has travelled extensively in and written on the Near East. In 1891 he became Under-Secretary for India, and in 1895 he went to the Foreign Oflice under Lord Salisbury. In 1898 hei became Vice, rov for India. He joined the first Coalu tion Government of Mr Asquith in May, 1915, as Lord Privy Seal. On the resignation of Mr Asquith in December, 1916, Lord Curzon became Lord President of the Council, Leader of the Houso of Lords and a member of the War Cabinet He was appointed Acting Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in January, 1919, and in the following October he became Foreign Secretary. In Mrßaldwin s_ Cabinet he retained the offices of Foreign Secretary and Leader in tfla House of Lords. Lord Salisbury is a son of a noted Prime Minister, who died , m 1903. His_ first appointment was that of Under-Secre-tary for Foreign Affairs (1900-03), and subsequently he was Lord Privy Sea (190305), and President of the Board of Tiade from March to December, 1905. Lord Salisbury was Lord President of the Council and Deputy Leader of the Blouse of Lords in Mr Baldwin’s Cabinet. Sir Arthur Stoel-Maitland was Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies from 1915-17 and joint Parliamentary Un-der-Secretary of State for the. Foreign Office and Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in his capacity as head of the Department of Overseas Trade (Development and Intelligence) from 1917 to

1919, He was created a baronet in 1917. At Oxford he was president of the union and a rowing bine. Lord Eustace Percy was Parliament ray Secretary to the Board of Education from March to May, 1923, when he became Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health. He is the seventh son of the Duke of Northumberland. Sir Douglas Hogg was first in the sugar trade. Then ho turned to the Bar, where his lucid mastery of detail gained him speedy success. He entered Parliament in 1922, and joined Mr Bonar Law's Ministry as Attorney-General. He continued that office under Mr Baldwin. Mr Neville Chamberlain in 1916 resigned from the post of Lord Mayor of Birmingham to become Director-General of National Services. He became PostmasterGeneral in 1922, but was transferred to the Ministry of Health on the failure of Sir A. Griffith-Boscawen to secure a seat in Parliament. Finally, when Mr Baldwin became Prime Minister, he succeeded his chief as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr E. F. L. Wood is the only surviving son of Lord Halifax. In Mr Baldwin’s last Cabinet he was President of the Board of Education. He served with the Expeditionary Force from 1915 to 1917. In 1909 ho married Lady Dorothy Onslow, the youngest daughter of the late Earl of Onslow, a former Governor of New Zealand, Sir Robert Sanders was the last Conservative Minister of Agriculture. Lieutenant-colonel Sir John Gihnour was Junior Lord of the Treasury from April, 1921, to April, 1922. He was one of the Unionist whips. He served in the Boer War and the European War.