Secretary for Overseas Trade

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Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt, later Viscount Greenwood, who served as Secretary for Overseas Trade between 1919 and 1920. Hamar Greenwood (Bain Collection).jpg
Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt, later Viscount Greenwood, who served as Secretary for Overseas Trade between 1919 and 1920.

The Secretary for Overseas Trade was a junior Ministerial position in the United Kingdom 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 on 3 September 1953.

Secretaries for Overseas Trade, 1917-1953

NameEntered officeLeft office
Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, 1st Baronet 19171919
Sir Hamar Greenwood, 1st Baronet 19191920
F. G. Kellaway 19201921
Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame 19211922
Sir William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Baronet 1922March 1923
Albert Buckley March 1923November 1923
VacantNovember 19231924
William Lunn 19241924
Arthur Samuel 19241927
Douglas Hacking 19271929
George Gillett 19291931
Sir Hilton Young 19311931
John Colville 19311935
Euan Wallace 19351937
Robert Hudson 19371940
Geoffrey Shakespeare 19401940
Harcourt Johnstone 19401945
Spencer Summers 19451945
Hilary Marquand 19451947
Harold Wilson 19471947
Arthur Bottomley 19471951
Henry Hopkinson 19511952
Harry Mackeson 19523 September 1953