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page 1Secretaries of state for war (UK)
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.
David Lloyd George
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922
H. H. Asquith
British politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916 (1852–1928)
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
British Prime Minister from 1905 to 1908 (1836–1908)
Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Irish officer and colonial administrator in the British Army (1850–1916)
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
British politician (1881-1959)
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
British statesman and colonial administrator (1854-1925)
John Profumo
British politician (1915-2006)
Duff Cooper
British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and author (1890-1954)
Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea
British politician (1810-1861)
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
British politician (1856-1928)
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Scottish advocate and politician (1742-1811)
Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
British statesman (1833-1908)
Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
British diplomat (1858-1945)
Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
British politician and diplomat (1865–1948)
George Cornewall Lewis
British politician; (1806-1863)
Hugh Childers
British politician (1827-1896)
Leslie Hore-Belisha
British politician (1893-1957)
Manny Shinwell
British politician (1884-1986)
Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook
British politician
John Strachey
British politician and writer (1901-1963)
William Henry Smith
English bookseller, newsagent and politician (1825–1891)
Christopher Soames
British politician (1920–1987)
Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham
British politician (1872-1950)
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle
British politician (1811-1864)
St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton
British politician (1856-1942)
Tom Shaw
British trade unionist and politician (1872-1938)
Oliver Stanley
British politician (1896–1950)
John Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone
British soldier and politician (1868–1947)
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, 1st Baronet
British politician (1868-1931)
Antony Head, 1st Viscount Head
British soldier, Conservative politician and diplomat (1906-1983)
David Margesson, 1st Viscount Margesson
British politician (1890-1965)
James Grigg
British politician (1890-1964)
Jack Lawson
British politician (1881-1965)
John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham
British politician (1911-1982)
James Ramsden
British politician (1923-2020)
Joseph Godber
British politician (1914-1980)
Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster
British politician and writer (1855–1909)