George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall
George Henry Hall, 1st Viscount Hall PC (* 31 December 1881 in Penrhiwceiber , Glamorgan , † 8. November 1965 in Leicester , Leicestershire ) was a British politician of the Labor Party , which from 1922 to 1946 a member of the House of Commons was and between 1945 and 1946 first Colonial Minister and then from 1946 to 1951 as First Lord of the Admiralty Lord High Admiral in the cabinet of Prime Minister Clement Attlee . In 1946 he was raised to the hereditary nobility as Viscount Hall and was a member of the House of Lords until his death .
Life
Miners, MPs and junior ministers
Hall attended school until 1893 and then worked as a miner in the Penrikyber mine. In 1911 he became a balance controller and used the amount of coal extracted to determine the miners' wages. Some time later he was overseer of the scales in the district of union South Wales Miners' Federation (SWMF).
In the elections of November 15, 1922 , he was elected as a candidate of the Labor Party for the first time to a member of the House of Commons and represented in this until November 28, 1946 the constituency of Merthyr Tydfil Aberdare . On June 7, 1929, he was Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to the Civil Lord of the Admiralty (Civil Lord of the Admiralty) appointed and held that post until August 24, 1931 from. During the Second World War he held the post of Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in Winston Churchill's War Cabinet from May 12, 1940 to February 4, 1942 . He was then between February 4, 1942 and September 25, 1943 Financial Secretary of the Admiralty (Financial Secretary to the Admiralty) and was as such in 1942 a member of the Privy Council (PC). Most recently he held the office of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from September 25, 1943 to May 26, 1945 .
Minister and Member of the House of Lords
After the Labor Party's victory in the July 5, 1945 elections , Hall was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies in his cabinet by Prime Minister Clement Attlee on August 3, 1945 and held this position until October 4, 1946 . As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he took over the post of First Lord of the Admiralty from A. V. Alexander on October 4, 1946 . He also held the office of Lord High Admiral and was thus one of the Great Officers of State . His successor as Colonial Minister was then Arthur Creech Jones on October 4, 1946 .
By a letters patent dated October 28, 1946, Hall was raised to the hereditary nobility of the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Viscount Hall , of Cynon Valley in the County of Glamorgan . This made him a member of the House of Lords, which he belonged to until his death on November 8, 1965.
After his death, his son William George Leonard Hall inherited the Viscount title.
Web links
- Mr George Hall at Hansard (English)
- Peerage: Hall in Leigh Rayment Peerage
- George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| New title created |
Viscount Hall 1946-1965 |
William Hall |
| AV Alexander |
First Lord of the Admiralty 1946–1951 |
Frank Pakenham |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hall, George, 1st Viscount Hall |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hall, George Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician, Member of the House of Commons and member of the House of Lords |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Penrhiwceiber , Glamorgan |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1965 |
| Place of death | Leicester , Leicestershire |