Kingsley Wood

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Sir Kingsley Wood (1940)

Sir Howard Kingsley Wood (born August 19, 1881 in London , † September 21, 1943 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who represented the constituency of Woolwich West as a member of the House of Commons for 25 years and held several ministerial offices until his death .

Life

After attending school, Wood studied law and worked as a solicitor after graduating . In the general election of December 14, 1918 , he was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Woolwich West in this until his death .

Shortly after his election he became Parliamentary Private Secretary in the government of Prime Minister David Lloyd George in December 1918 and held this office until October 1922, where he was knighted in 1919 as a Knight Bachelor and from then on bore the suffix "Sir". Between November 1924 and June 1929 he was Parliamentary Undersecretary of State in the government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and took over this office again in the coalition government formed in August 1931 by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald , who shortly thereafter appointed him Postmaster General . He held this office until the end of MacDonald's tenure in June 1935.

In June 1935, Prime Minister Baldwin appointed him Minister of Health; he also held this office in the subsequent government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain . In the course of a cabinet reshuffle, he was 1938 (until 1940) Secretary of State for Air , successor to Viscount Swinton . Shortly after taking office, he announced that he wanted to revolutionize Great Britain's “Air Expansion Scheme” (arming the Royal Air Force ).

In his role as Minister of Aviation, he opened London-Luton Airport on July 16, 1938 and Exeter Airport on July 20, 1938 . During this time he was with Neville Chamberlain the Cliveden Set on, one from Lord Halifax , Samuel Hoare , John Simon , Philip Kerr , Tom Jones , Ernest Brown , Lady Astor and Geoffrey Dawson , the editor of the Times Group, existing at that decisive operated the appeasement policy towards the fascist states.

After a brief subsequent acquisition of the office of Lord Privy Seal ( Lord Privy Seal ) was Sir Kingsley Wood most recently from 1940 until his death Chancellor of the Exchequer ( Chancellor of the Exchequer ) in the government of Prime Minister Winston Churchill . In this role he introduced the income tax ( pay-as-you-earn-income tax ).

Web links

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Bibliography

  • Una McGovern (Ed.): Chambers Biographical Dictionary . Chambers, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 1621

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald, Wednesday 15 June 1938, p. 16
predecessor Office successor
William Ormsby-Gore Postmaster General of the United Kingdom
1931-1935
George Tryon
Hilton Young Secretary of State for Health
1935-1938
Walter Elliot
Philip Cunliffe-Lister Secretary of State for Air
1938-1940
Samuel Hoare
Samuel Hoare Lord Seal Keeper
1940
Clement Attlee
John Simon Chancellor of the Exchequer
1940–1943
John Anderson