Stanley Baldwin,1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley,was a British statesman and Conservative politician who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars,serving as prime minister on three occasions,from May 1923 to January 1924,from November 1924 to June 1929,and from June 1935 to May 1937.
Earl of Chesterfield,in the County of Derby,was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1628 for Philip Stanhope,1st Baron Stanhope. He had been created Baron Stanhope,of Shelford in the County of Nottingham,in 1616,also in the Peerage of England. Stanhope's youngest son,the Hon. Alexander Stanhope,was the father of James Stanhope,1st Earl Stanhope,while his half-brother Sir John Stanhope of Elvaston was the great-grandfather of William Stanhope,1st Earl of Harrington.
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood,1st Earl of Halifax,,known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944,was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s. He held several senior ministerial posts during this time,most notably those of Viceroy of India from 1926 to 1931 and of Foreign Secretary between 1938 and 1940. He was one of the architects of the policy of appeasement of Adolf Hitler in 1936–1938,working closely with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. However,after Kristallnacht and the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 he was one of those who pushed for a new policy of attempting to deter further German aggression by promising to go to war to defend Poland.
William Shepherd Morrison,1st Viscount Dunrossil,,was a British politician. He was a long-serving cabinet minister before serving as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1951 to 1959. He was then appointed as the 14th Governor-General of Australia,in office from 1960 until his death in 1961.
Philip Henry Stanhope,5th Earl Stanhope,,styled Viscount Mahon between 1816 and 1855,was an English antiquarian and Tory politician. He held political office under Sir Robert Peel in the 1830s and 1840s but is best remembered for his contributions to cultural causes and for his historical writings.
Earl Stanhope was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. The earldom was created in 1718 for Major General James Stanhope,a principal minister of King George I,with remainder to the heirs male of his body. He was the son of the Hon. Alexander Stanhope,fifth and youngest son of Philip Stanhope,1st Earl of Chesterfield. In 1717,James Stanhope had been raised to the peerage as Viscount Stanhope,of Mahón in the Island of Minorca,and Baron Stanhope,of Elvaston in the County of Derby,with special remainder,failing heirs male of his body,to his second cousin John Stanhope of Elvaston and the heirs male of his body. These titles were also in the Peerage of Great Britain. The heir apparent of the Earls Stanhope used Viscount Mahon as a courtesy title.
Guilty Men is a short book published in Great Britain in July 1940 that attacked British public figures for their failure to re-arm and their appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. A classic denunciation of the former government policy,it shaped popular and scholarly thinking for two decades.
Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip,1st Viscount Caldecote,was a British politician who served in many legal posts,culminating in serving as Lord Chancellor from 1939 until 1940. Despite legal posts dominating his career for all but four years,he is most prominently remembered for serving as Minister for Coordination of Defence from 1936 until 1939.
Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey Sackville,9th Earl De La Warr,,styled Lord Buckhurst until 1915,was a British politician. He was the first hereditary peer to join the Labour Party and became a government minister at the age of 23.
Edward Montagu Cavendish Stanley,Lord Stanley,was a British Conservative politician. The eldest son of the 17th Earl of Derby,he held minor political office before being appointed Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in 1938,sitting in the cabinet alongside his brother Oliver Stanley. However,Stanley died only five months after this appointment,aged 44;his eldest son,Edward John Stanley,later succeeded to the earldom in his stead.
Philip Cunliffe-Lister,1st Earl of Swinton,,known as Philip Lloyd-Greame until 1924 and as The Viscount Swinton between 1935 and 1955,was a prominent British Conservative politician from the 1920s until the 1950s. He was notable through the 1940s and 1950s as being firstly the Minister for Aviation,and then being on the steering committee for the Convention on International Civil Aviation. he retired from politics in 1955 and his status was raised to an earldom.
Henry David Reginald Margesson,1st Viscount Margesson,PC was a British Conservative politician,most popularly remembered for his tenure as Government Chief Whip in the 1930s. His reputation was of a stern disciplinarian who was one of the harshest and most effective whips. His sense of the popular mood led him know when to sacrifice unpopular ministers. He protected the appeasement-supporting government as long as he could.
The National Government of 1937–1939 was formed by Neville Chamberlain on his appointment as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King George VI. He succeeded Stanley Baldwin,who announced his resignation following the coronation of the King and Queen in May 1937.
Neville Chamberlain formed the Chamberlain war ministry in 1939 after declaring war on Germany. Chamberlain led the country for the first eight months of the Second World War,until the Norway Debate in Parliament led Chamberlain to resign and Winston Churchill to form a new ministry.
The Conservative Government of the United Kingdom that began in 1922 and ended in 1924 consisted of two ministries:the Law ministry and then the first Baldwin ministry.
Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party formed the second Baldwin ministry upon his reappointment as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King George V after the 1924 general election. His second ministry ended following the so-called "Flapper Election" of May 1929.
Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender,1st Baron Bruntisfield,known as Sir Victor Warrender,Bt,between 1917 and 1942,was a British Conservative politician. He held minor political office between 1928 and 1945,notably as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from 1940 to 1945 in Winston Churchill's war-time coalition government. In 1942 he was ennobled as Baron Bruntisfield. He is also said to be the first politician Margaret Thatcher looked up to before beginning her career in politics.
Geoffrey William Richard Hugh FitzClarence,5th Earl of Munster,KBE,PC was a British peer and Conservative politician.
The Churchill war ministry was the United Kingdom's coalition government for most of the Second World War from 10 May 1940 to 23 May 1945. It was led by Winston Churchill,who was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by King George VI following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain in the aftermath of the Norway Debate.
George Philip Cecil Arthur Stanhope,7th Earl of Chesterfield,styled Lord Stanhope until 1866,was a British soldier,and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1860 until 1866 when he inherited his peerage and sat in the House of Lords. He was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire and was the first president of Derbyshire County Cricket Club.
