John Simon 1st Viscount Simon

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John Allsebrook Simon 1st Viscount Simon GCSI GCVO OBE PC (28 February 1873 – 11 January 1954) was a British politician who held senior Cabinet posts from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second. He is one of only three people to have served as Home Secretary Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer the others being R.A. Butler and James Callaghan. He also served as Lord Chancellor the most senior position in the British legal system.

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active years end date

1913-10-19, 1915-05-25, 1916-01-12, 1935-06-07, 1937-05-28, 1940-05-10, 1945-07-27

active years start date

1910-10-07, 1913-10-19, 1915-05-27, 1931-11-05, 1935-06-07, 1937-05-28, 1940-05-10

alma mater

Wadham College Oxford

birth date

1873-02-28

child

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death date

1954-01-11

order in office

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, Attorney-General, Solicitor-General

other party

National Liberal Party (UK 1931)

party

Liberal Party (UK)

prime minister

Neville Chamberlain, Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Winston Churchill, H. H. Asquith

spouse

Kathleen Simon Viscountess Simon

successor

Herbert Samuel 1st Viscount Samuel, William Jowitt 1st Earl Jowitt, Edward Carson Baron Carson, Stanley Buckmaster 1st Viscount Buckmaster, Kingsley Wood, Samuel Hoare 1st Viscount Templewood

term period

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