Walter Womersley

Sir Walter James Womersley, 1st Baronet , PC , Kt (* 5. February 1878 , † 15. March 1961 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party , among others 1924-1945 Member of Parliament ( House of Commons ) as well as 1939 to 1945 Minister of Pensions . In 1945 he was promoted to baronet .

Life

Womersley was in the election on 29 October 1924 as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) selected and represented in this until July 5, 1945 constituency Grimsby . In the first national government of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald he held the office of Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Kingsley Wood Ministry of Education from August to October 1931 and was then one of the Lord Commissioners of the Treasury between November 1931 and June 1935 . On June 27, 1934 he was beaten to Knight Bachelor (Kt) and from then on carried the suffix "Sir". In the second national government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin he remained from June 18, 1935 to December 6, 1935 Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and then took over the office of Deputy Post Minister (Assistant Postmaster-General) on December 6, 1935 . He also held this office in the third national government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain until June 7, 1939.

As part of a reshuffle Womersley took over on June 7, 1935 in the third National Government Chamberlain of Herwald Ramsbotham office as Minister for Pensions (Minister of Pensions) . He held the office of the pension minister in the war Chamberlain government , the war Churchill government and the transitional government Churchill until July 26, 1945 held. On 15 January 1941 he also became a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) . Jennie Adamson , who became his parliamentary private secretary in 1941, was one of his key ministerial assistants .

After leaving the government and the House of Commons, Womersley was given the hereditary title of Baronet on September 3, 1945 , of Grimsby in the County of Lincoln . On his death on March 15, 1961, his grandson Peter John Walter Womersley inherited the title of 2nd Baronet.

Web links

• Walter Womersley at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Baronets in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• PRIVY COUNSELLORS 1915-1968 in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• KNIGHTS AND DAMES in Leigh Rayment Peerage

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Womersley Baronet, of Grimsby 1945–1961	Peter Womersley