The last holder of which post, abolished in 1964 was the second Earl Jellicoe – previous holders include Winston Churchill (from 1911 to 1915 and 1939 to 1940)?
"afternoon""—essentially hinting that Jellicoe's decision to prefer caution was strategically correct. Nevertheless, he was appointed a member of the Order of Merit on 31 May 1916, advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order on 17 June 1916 and awarded the Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honour on 15 September 1916. Jellicoe was appointed First Sea Lord in November 1916. His term of office saw Britain brought within danger of starvation by German unrestricted U-Boat warfare. At the War Committee (a Cabinet Committee which discussed strategy in 1915–16) in November 1916, the admirals present, including Jellicoe,"
"the Lords, and technically the longest-serving parliamentarian in the world, having taken his seat in 1939. The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother, Hon. Nicholas Charles Joseph Jellicoe (b. 1953). Earl Jellicoe Earl Jellicoe is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created, along with the subsidiary title Viscount Brocas, of Southampton in the County of Southampton, on 29 June 1925 for Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe, 1st Viscount Jellicoe, on his return from being Governor-General of New Zealand, with remainder to the heirs male of his body. He had already been created Viscount"
"George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, (4 April 1918 – 22 February 2007) was a British politician, diplomat and businessman. Lord Jellicoe was the only son but sixth and youngest child of John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, who was a First World War naval commander, commander at the Battle of Jutland, and Admiral of the Fleet, and his wife Florence Gwendoline (died 1964), who was the second daughter of Sir Charles Cayzer, 1st Bt., of Gartmore, Perthshire. George Jellicoe was one of the longest-serving parliamentarians in the world, being a member of the"
"Earl Jellicoe Earl Jellicoe is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created, along with the subsidiary title Viscount Brocas, of Southampton in the County of Southampton, on 29 June 1925 for Admiral of the Fleet John Jellicoe, 1st Viscount Jellicoe, on his return from being Governor-General of New Zealand, with remainder to the heirs male of his body. He had already been created Viscount Jellicoe, of Scapa in the County of Orkney, on 15 January 1918, created with remainder to the heirs male of his body, and in default of such issue to his eldest"
"He was a member of Brooks's (since 1940), the Special Forces Club, the Ski Club of Great Britain and was a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. Lorna Windmill's biography termed Jellicoe ""a British Achilles"" on account of two of his careers derailing as a result of women: in the 1950s for love, and in the 1970s for escorts. George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, (4 April 1918 – 22 February 2007) was a British politician, diplomat and businessman. Lord Jellicoe was the only son but sixth and youngest child of John"
"Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, statesman, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory in the Second World War. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as Member of Parliament (MP). Ideologically an economic liberal and British imperialist, he began and ended his parliamentary career as a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but for twenty years from 1904 he was a"
"from 2001 to 2003. He was Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2010 to 2016. Duncan Smith is a successor of Sir Winston Churchill, who was also MP for this area and is commemorated by a statue on Woodford Green erected in 1959. The Local bus stop, perversely, describes it as the Churchill Memorial but it was, in fact, erected in his lifetime. In the 1920s and 1930s, Clement Attlee, later Labour Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951, had a residence in Woodford Green, the seat of his political adversary, Winston Churchill. A blue plaque to that effect"
"Regis d'Erlanger and granddaughter of Baron Emile Beaumont d'Erlanger. The couple had four children: Churchill's second marriage, to Luce Engelen, a Belgian-born jewellery maker, lasted from 1999 until his death. Churchill lived in Belgravia, London, where he died on 2 March 2010 from prostate cancer, from which he had suffered for the last two years of his life. Winston Churchill (1940–2010) Winston Spencer-Churchill (10 October 1940 – 2 March 2010), generally known as Winston Churchill, was a British Conservative politician and a grandson of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. During the period of his prominence as a public figure,"
"five successive Prime Ministers were in office. In modern times, since members of the House of Lords ceased to hold Prime Ministerial office (after 1902), there were three Prime Ministers in office between the general elections of 1935 and 1945: Stanley Baldwin (retired 28 May 1937), Neville Chamberlain (resigned 10 May, and subsequently died 1940) and Winston Churchill (until dissolution of the parliament). The most number of general elections contested by an individual is six. H. H. Asquith contested the January 1910, December 1910, 1918, 1922, 1923 and the 1924 general elections. The most number of general elections lost by"
"Descendants of Winston Churchill Sir Winston Churchill, son of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill, and grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 26 October 1951 – 6 April 1955 and 10 May 1940 – 26 July 1945. In 1908, Churchill married Clementine Hozier, the daughter of Sir Henry and Lady Blanche Hozier. By Clementine, Churchill had five children and ten grandchildren, a number of whom are well known in their own right. ""by Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier)"" ""by Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan Sandys"" ""by Pamela Digby"" ""by June Osborne"" ""by"
"Christopher Soames, Baron Soames"" Descendants of Winston Churchill Sir Winston Churchill, son of Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill, and grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 26 October 1951 – 6 April 1955 and 10 May 1940 – 26 July 1945. In 1908, Churchill married Clementine Hozier, the daughter of Sir Henry and Lady Blanche Hozier. By Clementine, Churchill had five children and ten grandchildren, a number of whom are well known in their own right. ""by Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (née Hozier)"" ""by Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan Sandys"" ""by Pamela Digby"""
"United Kingdom on 15 July 1902 for the first baron's grandson Conservative politician Victor Spencer, 3rd Baron Churchill. The viscountcy became extinct in 2017 on the death of the first Viscount's youngest son, the third Viscount, who had succeeded his half-brother, the second Viscount, in 1973. The barony was inherited by the last Viscount's second cousin once removed, the great-grandson of General The Hon. Sir Augustus Almeric Spencer GCB, who was the third son of the 1st Baron Churchill. As a descendant of the 4th Duke of Marlborough, the 6th Baron is also in remainder to this peerage and its"
"of Cunliffe-Lister in lieu of Lloyd-Greame. The Earl was succeeded by his grandson, the second Earl. He was the eldest son of Major the Hon. John Yarburgh Cunliffe-Lister, who was killed in the Second World War. Lord Swinton notably served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (deputy chief government whip in the House of Lords) from 1982 to 1986 in the Conservative administration of Margaret Thatcher. His wife was Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton. the titles are held by Lord Swinton's younger brother, the third Earl, who succeeded in 2006. The title is named after Swinton Park"
"was elected on to the executive of the association and two years later was elected as Vice-President. He then served as its President from 1943 to 1946 when he resigned to take up a position on the association's permanent staff as associate secretary. He later became General Secretary of the association from 1958 to 1964 when he retired. In 1950 Churchill won a seat on the Wellington City Council on a Labour ticket which he was to hold until 1964 when he decided not stand for re-election. He had twice stood for the council previously but been unsuccessful. He became"
"was murdered by pirates while monitoring environmental change in the Amazon River in Brazil. Jellicoe House named after Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe 1st Earl Jellicoe (GCB, OM, GCVO) commonly known as ""Lord Jellicoe"" who was the Royal Navy commander of the Grand Fleet of the Battle of Jutland in World War I. He was also a former Governor-General of New Zealand from 1920–1924, he also held a number of Military Offices including 1st Sea Lord 1916-1917, 2nd Sea Lord 1912-1914, and 3rd Sea Lord 1908-1910. He was also created the Earl Jellicoe in 1925 and Viscount Jellicoe"
"Thomson<br> • 1969-1973 Lt-Gen Sir Oliver Leese<br> • 1974-1975 A. M. Crawley<br> • 1976-1983 E. W. Swanton<br> • 1983-1998 G. H. G. Doggart<br> • 1998-2008 C. D. A. Martin-Jenkins<br> • 2008-onwards J. R. T. Barclay • 1945-1946 A. Weigall <br> • 1946-1947 Capt. J. A. Bayliss<br> • 1947-1953 G. A. Copinger<br> • 1953-1960 A. R. Whitaker<br> • 1960-1965 Dr R. W. Cockshut<br> • 1965-1966 L. E. S. Gutteridge<br> • 1966-1983 C. C. W. Box-Grainger<br> • 1983-1992 R. N. Haygarth<br> • 1992-2003 D. Allsop<br> • 2003-2008 W. R. Allen<br> • 2008 I. R. Jackson<br> • 2008-2012 D. E. Barnard<br> • 2012"
"seats, in Barnard Castle, Widnes, Newcastle upon Tyne East, Burnley, and Clay Cross. Joseph Gibbins is the only person in modern times to gain the same seat twice in two different by-elections. He triumphed for Labour in the Liverpool West Toxteth by-election, 1924 and the Liverpool West Toxteth by-election, 1935. William O'Brien won four by-elections, in Mallow in 1883, North East Cork in 1887 and then Cork City in 1904 and 1914. On these last two occasions, he was re-elected having resigned the seat. Prime Minister Winston Churchill contested five by-elections in his long career:- John Wilkes won the Aylesbury"
"CHARLES E. FOSTER 1977 - 1984 JACK R. MEYER 1974 - 1976 FRANK L. (BUD) ELKIN 1965 - 1972 GLEN POWELL 1949 - 1964 DUKE MOYNIHAN 1941 - 1948 PLEAS WRIGHT 6/14/1933 - 1940 ROGER I. WILSON 1/1/1933 - 6/14/1933 KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY CLYDE BALLEW 1929 - 1932 ROY CREED 1925 - 1928 FRED C. BROWN 1921 - 1924 T. FRED WHITESIDES 1917 - 1920 G. BERT SAPP 1913 – 1916 WILSON HALL 1909 - 1912 FOUNTAIN ROTHWELL 1905 - 1908 FRANK C. BRADFORD 1901 - 1904 WILLIAM R. BALDWIN 1899 - 1900 JAMES T. STOCKTON 1895"
"Jeremy Thorpe as one of its early Trustees, the charity has always been rooted in its connections with Westminster and the Churchill family. Clementine Churchill (widow of the prime minister) became president in 1972. The chairman from 1995 to 2010 (and trustee since 1974) was Winston Churchill (grandson of the former prime minister), The sole patron for many years was Mary Soames, Baroness Soames (daughter of Prime Minister Winston Churchill). A serving trustee is Minnie (Mary) Churchill. Former and current trustees include Paul Burstow, Dermot de Trafford, John de Trafford, Roger Pincham, Jeff Rooker, Baron Rooker, Laura Sandys, Stephen Lloyd,"
"a higher Cabinet rank than Chancellor Philip Hammond. The title is not always in use, so there have sometimes been extended gaps between successive holders of the title. It was unused the longest in the 25 years between 1970 and 1995. After Damian Green resigned over sexual harassment allegations on 20 December 2017, no Secretary of State was appointed to fill the post. The role has had varying responsibilities over time. The most recent responsibilities are: The post of Deputy Prime Minister had been created in 1942 for Clement Attlee, the leader of the Labour Party in Winston Churchill's wartime"
"2018- The office of Honorary President was established in 1925. The Right Honourable Sir Robert Borden, 1925–38; The Right Honourable Lord Tweedsmuir 1938–39; George M. Wrong, 1943–48; Charles W. Colby, 1948–55; J. B. Tyrrell, 1956–57; Sir Edward Peacock, 1958–62; W. Stewart Wallace, 1963–70; W. Kaye Lamb, 1971–99; John Warkentin, 2000—. The office of Honorary Vice-President was established in 1964. D. C. Harvey, 1964–66; Msgr. Joseph Thomas Arthur Maheux, 1964–67; Sir Campbell Stuart, 1964–72; Harold C. Walker, 1968–69; The Honourable Leslie Frost, 1969–73; Miss Julia Jarvis, 1971–89; D. G. Creighton, 1973–79; Colonel C. P. Stacey, 1974–90; John M. Gray, 1976–78; W."
"Lawrence H. Smith 1945-1947 Merton W. Willmore 1943-1945 Maurice R. Rhoades 1941-1943 Norman H. Doane 1939-1941 Arthur L. Helwig 1937-1939 Julian J. Bechtold 1935-1937 Carl J. Zimmerman 1933-1935 Reginald L. Grooms 1929-1933 Theodore C. Dorl 1928-1929 Ernest Bruce Haswell 1927-1928 John E. Weis 1924-1927 Ernest Bruce Haswell 1922-1924 Herman H. Wessel 1920-1922 George Debereiner 1918-1920 Martin Rettig 1916-1918 James R. Hopkins 1914-1916 Paul Ashbrook 1912-1914 Theodore C. Dorl 1910-1912 Lewis Henry Meakin 1908-1910 John Rettig 1908 Henry F. Farny 1906-1908 W. F. Behrens 1904-1906 John Dee Wareham 1903-1904 Leon Van Loo 1902-1903 Paul Jones 1899-1902 John Ward Dunsmore 1898-1899 Clement"
"Board of Agriculture and was also Governor of New Zealand. His eldest son, the fifth Earl, was also a Conservative politician. He notably held office as Under-Secretary of State for War and as Paymaster-General during the 1920s. He was succeeded by his son, the sixth Earl. He served in the Conservative administrations of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords) for nine years. From 1971 to 2011, the titles were held by his son, the seventh Earl, who succeeded in 1971. The 7th Earl"
"- 1910 Sir E.W. Birch 1910 - 1911 B.C.N. Knight 1911 - 1912 Lt. Col. W.P. Hume 1912 - 1913 W.H. Tate 1913 - 1914 D.S.C.G. Fox 1914 - 1915 R.G. Watson 1915 - 1916 T.C. Fleming 1916 - 1918 R.G. Watson 1918 - 1919 V. Hill 1919 - 1920 C.W.H. Cochrane 1920 - 1921 W.A. Wilkinson 1921 - 1922 J.N. Sheffield 1922 - 1923 F.W. Mager 1923 - 1924 D.G.B. McHutchison 1924 - 1926 T.S. Adams 1926 - 1927 H.G. Baxter 1927 - 1928 L.C. Pearson 1928 - 1929 Major W.A.D. Edwardes 1929 - 1930 S.B. Palmer 1930 -"
"of his life. He died on 22 February 2007, six weeks shy of his 89th birthday. At his death, Lord Jellicoe was the longest-serving member of the House of Lords, and arguably the longest-serving parliamentarian in the world, having succeeded his father on 20 November 1935 and come of age and sat first in parliament on 25 July 1939. Because he waited until 28 July 1958 to make his maiden speech, a few peers (viz. Earl Ferrers and Lords Renton, Carrington, Healey, and Strabolgi) could have been considered to have been active parliamentarians longer. Moreover, at the time of his"
"its creation 1626 until its extinction with the death of the 4th earl in 1679. The title was recreated 10 years later for John Churchill (in 1689). Churchill had been made ""Lord Churchill of Eyemouth"" (1682) in the Scottish peerage, and ""Baron Churchill"" of Sandridge (1685) and ""Earl of Marlborough"" (1689) in the Peerage of England. Shortly after her accession to the throne in 1702, Queen Anne made Churchill the first ""Duke of Marlborough"" and granted him the subsidiary title ""Marquess of Blandford"". In 1678, Churchill married Sarah Jennings (1660–1744), a courtier and influential favourite of the queen. They had"
"when he succeeded his father as the 3rd Duke of Grafton on 6 May 1757, eleven years before his term of office began. The longest service as MP was enjoyed by Sir Winston Churchill, who sat for a total of 63 years and 360 days, for five successive seats, between 1 October 1900 and retiring on 25 September 1964, excluding two intervals out of parliament (in 1908 and 1922–24), retiring as Father of the House. He was in the Commons throughout both his terms as Prime Minister, and his service covered the terms of eleven other Prime Ministers, from Lord"
"Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister in 1940, Elliot was dropped from the government. He later served as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. In the 1945 election, he lost his Kelvingrove seat by just 45 votes. He was returned for the Combined Scottish Universities seat in a by-election in November 1946. When the university seats were abolished, Elliot returned to Kelvingrove where he beat his Labour opponent from 1945, John Lloyd Williams, and SNP candidate Hugh MacDiarmid in the 1950 election. Elliot also led the popular Elliot Commission on Higher Education"
"Examples of this practice are the meetings in New Zealand in 1990 and 1995, when Geoffrey Palmer and James Bolger respectively were acting Lords President. Before the United Kingdom general election, 2010, the Lord President was Peter Mandelson, who was also First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills. This was the first time that the Lord President had not been a leader of one of the two Houses since the period 20 October 1963 to 16 October 1964, when Quintin Hogg (2nd Viscount Hailsham until November 1963), after resigning his post as Leader of"
"represented Midlothian in Parliament from 1906 to 1910 but then did not take an active part in politics until the 1940s, when he served in Winston Churchill's 1945 caretaker government as Secretary of State for Scotland. He was also Chairman of the National Liberal Party from 1945 to 1947. the titles are held by his son, the seventh Earl, who succeeded in 1974. The heir apparent to the earldom is usually styled ""Lord Dalmeny"", but the current Earl, while heir apparent to his father, the sixth Earl, was styled ""Lord Primrose"" instead, to avoid using the same courtesy title as"
"in office when he was succeeded by Winston Churchill in 1905. From 1912 to 1916, he was private secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, serving Lewis Harcourt and then Bonar Law. In 1916 he was promoted to Principal Clerk and in 1917 was appointed Director of the Overseas Division of the Foreign Office, Department of Overseas Trade, a post he held until 1933, when he was promoted to Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He retired in 1938, although he returned to the Foreign Office during the Second World War from September 1939 to September 1940."
"the Admiralty and the introduction of convoys, In April, 1917 the Admiralty War Staff function was abolished and replaced by a new Admiralty Naval Staff department and Jellicoe was also given the additional title of Chief of the Naval Staff he was assisted initially by two deputies the Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff and the Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, these would be joined later by the Deputy First Sea Lord and Vice Chief of the Naval Staff, Jellicoe was relieved at the end of 1917. Changes in the structure of the Staff were implemented from 1918 onward"
"of the Admiralty Sir Winston Churchill and Grand Fleet CIC Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, and when events proved him right, he was shoveled off as a liaison officer to the Italian Fleet in April 1915, returning from Taranto in September 1915. After this he was given a backwater assignment, command of HMS ""Commonwealth"" (part of a pre-dreadnought battle squadron at the Nore) in 1916. Fortunately, after the disappointing 31 May – 1 June 1916 Battle of Jutland resulted in the appointment of his admirer Admiral David Beatty as Grand Fleet CIC in December Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives</ref> 1916,"