Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury
Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury , GCMG , GCVO , OBE , MC , PC (born March 6, 1887 - January 30, 1971 ) was a British politician and colonial administrator .
biography
After school he entered the military service of the British Army and served during World War I as an officer . In 1915 he was promoted to lieutenant and in the same year to captain . For his bravery he was awarded the Order of the British Empire and the Military Cross . In 1918 he was promoted to major and left the army in 1919.
Ramsbotham was elected as a member of the Conservative Party to the House of Commons in 1929 and represented the interests of the Lancaster constituency there until 1941 . Between August 1931 and June 1935 he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education. Afterwards he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.
On July 30, 1936, Ramsbotham was appointed Minister of Pensions by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin . He held this office under Baldwin's successor Arthur Neville Chamberlain until 1939. As part of a government reshuffle, Chamberlain appointed him Minister for Public Works (First Commissioner of Works) on June 7, 1939.
In April 1940 he was named Minister of Education (President of the Board of Education) by Prime Minister Winston Churchill . When he resigned from the House of Commons and the government in July 1941, he was raised to the nobility for his services as Baron Soulbury and thus also a member of the House of Lords .
On July 6, 1949 he was appointed Governor General of Sri Lanka to succeed Henry Monck Mason Moore . He held this office until he was replaced by Oliver Goonetilleke on July 17, 1954.
After his return to Great Britain he was appointed Viscount Soulbury by Queen Elizabeth II in 1954 . After his death in 1971, his eldest son James Ramsbotham inherited the title, before it fell to his younger son Sir Peter Ramsbotham after his death in 2004 .
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| New title created |
Viscount Soulbury 1954-1971 |
James Ramsbotham |
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| SURNAME | Ramsbotham, Herwald, 1st Viscount Soulbury |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ramsbotham, Herwald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician, Member of the House of Commons and Governor General |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1887 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1971 |