Other new cabinet ministers were as follows:
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Tom Williams
Air Secretary: Earl of Listowel
Minister of Fuel and Power: Emmanuel Shinwell
Minister of Transport: Ernest Thurtle.
Cabinet posts unchanged:
Prime...
The Conservative and Liberal ministers in the government resigned on 11 February 1943. The Prime Minister, John Clynes made the following changes to his cabinet:
Thomas Johnston from Chancellor of the Exchequer to Lord President of the Council and leader of...
Nye went to the only bookshop in Ilfracombe and asked the manager if they had any of his poetry books. The manager told him that they did not, so Nye gave him a few copies of his most recent book of poems, and asked if he would put them on...
In July 1903, Aneurin and Maire Griffiths and their two youngest children, Owain aged 11 and Sorcha aged 9,
had five days holiday in the small seaside resort of Ilfracombe on the north Devon coast. (1) They travelled by steamship in the morning...
William Shakespeare died on 10 February 1618. He and Elizabeth Quiney had six children, four boys and two girls. The play Macbeth was not written in this timeline, because the King of Scots did not become King of England, so there was no union...
The Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law, did not resign. Instead he waited to see if the Conservative government would be defeated on a vote of no confidence. The King's Speech on 23 November 1922, set out the government's legislative programmme for the...
When all the votes had been counted and all the constituency results declared in the UK general election on 15 November 1922, the number of seats in the House of Commons won by each party and by Independents were as follows:
Conservative: 300
Labour...
The election for the London County Council was held on 1 March 1934. It was won by the Municipal Reform Party, which was what the Conservative Party called themselves. The number of councillors elected for each party were (March 1931 election):
Municipal...
By November 1929, the relationship between Jennie Lee and Frank Wise was no longer a casual affair, they were committed to each other. However he was married with four school-age children. His wife Dorothy wanted to stay married to him. She and their...
Sir John Tudor Walters, Liberal MP for Penryn and Falmouth, died on 16 July 1933. He had previously been Liberal MP for Sheffield Brightside from 1906 to 1922, and was Paymaster-General from 1919 to 1922. The subsequent by-election held on 1 September...
The Stepney Mile End by-election, caused by the death of John Scurr (Labour) was held on 16 September 1932. The percentage votes were:
Daniel Franken (Labour): 47.1 (49.7)
Conservative: 28.9 (25.2)
Liberal: 24.0 (25.1)
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The Montrose Burghs by-election, caused by the resignation of Sir Robert Hutchinson (Liberal), was held on 28 June 1932. The percentage votes for each party were as follows ( April 1931 general election):
Charles Kerr (Liberal): 39.3 (55.4)
Labour: 37.0...
The Agriculture Marketing Act 1932 established the Milk Marketing Board and the Potato Marketing Board. (1) They gave farmers minimum prices for those products. The Holidays With Pay Act 1933 doubled the number of workers entitled to paid holidays from 1.5...
On 20 December 1917, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Charles Hobhouse, authorised the immediate release from prison of John Redmond, John Dillon and other members of the Irish government. They returned to Dublin and were greeted with great enthusiasm by...
The closest English relation to Edmund I and Princess Catherine was their half aunt Princess Elizabeth. She returned to court from Hatfield House and helped in child care for Edmund and Catherine. Also descended from Henry VII and Elizabeth of York...