Winston Churchill was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1924 and served until 1929. He presented five budgets during his chancellorship. He was...
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campaign, Winston Churchill was in 1915 appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a humiliating loss of the trappings of power. The chancellor of the...
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to the Court of Appeal in 1946 and to the House of Lords in 1951. The same year he was offered the Lord Chancellorship by Winston Churchill, but declined...
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Jock Colville (category Winston Churchill)
diaries, which provide an intimate view of number 10 Downing Street during the wartime Premiership of Winston Churchill. Colville came from a politically active...
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Angela Merkel (redirect from Chancellorship of Angela Merkel)
Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2000 to 2018. During her chancellorship, Merkel was frequently referred to as the de facto leader of the European...
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briefly Home Secretary in Winston Churchill's 1945 caretaker government. Somervell was the son of Robert Somervell, master and bursar of Harrow School, and was...
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Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory (category Ministers in the third Churchill government, 1951–1955)
came to power under Winston Churchill in 1951 he was appointed Minister of Pensions. In September 1953 he was appointed Minister of State for Trade. He...
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a democratically elected head of government in German history. It has been compared to the defeat of Winston Churchill in 1945 – both were seen as conservative...
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Helmut Kohl (redirect from Chancellorship of Helmut Kohl)
culture. After his chancellorship, Kohl became honorary chairman of the CDU in 1998 but resigned from the position in 2000 in the wake of the CDU donations...
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Courtenay, Paul (14 October 2008). "The Armorial Bearings of Sir Winston Churchill". The Churchill Centre. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022. Retrieved...
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power of the executive swelled, the need to have a legislative-oriented office receded. In 1942 during the Second World War Winston Churchill had made...
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Kenneth Clarke (redirect from Chancellorship of Kenneth Clarke)
is the fifth-longest in the modern era after Winston Churchill, Arthur Balfour, Rab Butler, and The Duke of Devonshire. Clarke was opposed to Brexit during...
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Stanley Baldwin in 1923. Formerly, in cases when the chancellorship was vacant, the lord chief justice of the King's Bench would act as chancellor pro tempore...
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Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham (redirect from Douglas Mcgarel, 1st Viscount Hailsham of Hailsham Hogg)
"Who is Winston Churchill?" Churchill, a leading member of the Liberal Cabinet at the time, was one of those apparently threatening some kind of military...
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H. H. Asquith (redirect from Herbert Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith)
(1971). Winston S. Churchill Volume III 1914–1916. London: Heinemann. ISBN 9780395131534. OCLC 1158303. Gilbert, Martin (1972). Winston S. Churchill Companion...
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Robert Blake, Baron Blake (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
Romanes Lecture (1993) Churchill: A Major New Assessment of His Life in Peace and War (1993; edited with Wm Roger Louis) Winston Churchill (1998) Jardine Matheson...
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Hugh Dalton (category Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945)
strongly opposed the appeasement policy of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938. Dalton served in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition cabinet; after...
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Konrad Adenauer (category Grand Crosses in special issue of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
of the more dirigiste French, and to achieve that purpose he visited London in November 1951 to meet with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Churchill...
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Kingsley Wood (category Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945)
Britain up to parity with Germany. When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, Wood was made Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which post he adopted...
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Tony Blair (redirect from Family of Tony Blair)
served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He was Leader of the Opposition from 1994...
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Peter Thorneycroft (category Ministers in the Churchill caretaker government, 1945)
notable as an amateur watercolourist and held exhibitions. Winston Churchill, when told of Thorneycroft's interest, had said, "Every minister must have his...
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Edward Heath (redirect from Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath (1974–1975))
a large collection of personal effects as well as Heath's personal library, photo collections, and paintings by Winston Churchill. In his will, Heath...
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regency. He based his conclusion on the judgement of Winston Churchill, who said in 1939, "The overthrow of the monarchy in Germany was our greatest political...
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Adolf Hitler (redirect from History of Adolf Hitler)
Battle of the Atlantic. Hitler made peace overtures to the new British leader, Winston Churchill, and upon their rejection he ordered a series of aerial...
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popular slogan of "Hitler wants Hogg". Hogg voted against Neville Chamberlain in the Norway Debate of May 1940, and supported Winston Churchill. He served...
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Stafford Cripps (category Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945)
During this same meeting, the People's National Party was formed. When Winston Churchill formed his wartime coalition government in 1940 he appointed Cripps...
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Roy Jenkins (redirect from Churchill: A Biography (Jenkins book))
much-acclaimed biography of Winston Churchill (2001). His then-designated official biographer, Andrew Adonis, was to have finished the Churchill biography had Jenkins...
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Romanes Lecture (category Lecture series at the University of Oxford)
Palaeontology and the Evolution of Man 1929 Sir John William Fortescue — The Vicissitudes of Organized Power 1930 Winston Churchill — Parliamentary Government...
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Paul von Hindenburg (category Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary)
of tactics and years on the General Staff have been less emphasised while he is remembered as a commander in Ludendorff's shadow. Winston Churchill in...
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put forward the suggestion of Prince of the Commonwealth. In May of the following year, U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill received a written suggestion...
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