Euan Wallace

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Euan Wallace (1937)

David Euan Wallace , MC , PC (* 20th April 1892 ; † 9. February 1941 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party , among others from 1922 to 1923 and again from 1924 until his death in 1941 a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) was. Between 1939 and 1940 he was Minister of Transport.

Life

Officer, Member of the House of Commons and Minister

Kildonan House , which Wallace inherited on condition that he reside there

Wallace came from the Scottish Wallace clan and served as an officer in the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards , a guard cavalry regiment of the Life Guards . For his services he was awarded the Military Cross and he was finally promoted to captain . He inherited lands at Barrhill at that time on the condition that he established his residence there. The large-sized Kildonan House was completed in 1923 and is based on the English manor house architecture of past centuries. In the general election of 15 November 1922 , he was for the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) selected and represented there until his election defeat in the general election on December 6, 1923 the constituency of Rugby . He was also between 1922 and 1923 Parliamentary Private Secretary .

In the general election of October 29, 1924 , Wallace was re-elected for the Conservative Party as a member of the House of Commons, in which he now represented the constituency of Hornsey until his death on February 9, 1941 . At the beginning of his new membership of this Parliament he was from 1924 to 1928 again Parliamentary private secretary and after 1928-1929 Deputy Parliamentary Secretary ( Assistant Whip ) the fraction of the Conservative Party before in which he second government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin from 1 January to June 4, 1929 the post of Lord Commissioner of the Treasury ( Junior Lord of the Treasury ) held. He held the position of Junior Lord of the Treasury between September 3 and November 12, 1931 in the first national government of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald .

In the third national government of Prime Minister Baldwin, Wallace was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from June 18 to November 28, 1935 and, after a government reshuffle, from November 28, 1935 to November 28, 1935. May 1937 Parliamentary Secretary for Overseas Trade . On September 26, 1936 he was elected a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) appointed. He was then in the fourth national government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain from May 28, 1937 to May 16, 1938, first Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade and subsequently after a cabinet reshuffle between May 16, 1938 and April 21, 1939 Financial Secretary to the Treasury , before he succeeded Leslie Burgin as Minister of Transport on April 21, 1939 as part of a new government reshuffle . This ministerial office he held from September 3, 1939 to May 10, 1940 in the war government of Prime Minister Chamberlain.

Marriages and offspring

Wallace was married to Lady Myra Idina Sackville between 1913 and 1919 in their first marriage

Wallace was married twice, from November 26, 1913 to the divorce in 1919, his first marriage to Lady Myra Idina Sackville, daughter of Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr and his wife, Lady Muriel Agnes Brassey, who was a daughter of Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey and the writer Anna Brassey was. From this marriage came the son David John Wallace, who died as a major in World War II on August 17, 1944 , and the son Wing Commander Gerard Euan Wallace, who also died in World War II in 1944.

On May 10, 1920 Wallace married Barbara Lutyens, daughter of the architect Edwin Landseer Lutyens and his wife Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton, daughter of the writer and diplomat Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton . From this marriage, which lasted until his death in 1941, three other sons were born. The eldest son, John Wallace, died on August 15, 1946 as a Lieutenant in the Life Guards on active duty, while the second son, Edward Peter Wallace, died as a captain in the Royal Air Force on November 4, 1944, also in World War II. The third and youngest son, William Euan Wallace, was married to Elizabeth Anne Hoyer Millar, daughter of Frederick Millar, 1st Baron Inchyra .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His Parliamentary Private Secretary during his tenure as Parliamentary Secretary of State for Foreign Trade was William Anstruther-Gray , who was later raised to the nobility as Baron Kilmany, of Kilmany in the County of Fifeshire .
  2. ↑ Lady Myra Idina Sackville was from 1923 to 1930 in the third marriage with Josslyn Hay, the 22nd Earl of Erroll married
personal data
SURNAME Wallace, Euan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wallace, David Euan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1892
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1941