Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury

Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury, GCMG, GCVO, OBE, MC, PC ( born March 6, 1887 † January 30, 1971 ) was a British politician and colonial administrator.

Biography

After schooling, he entered the military service of the British Army and served during World War II as an officer. In 1915 he was first promoted to lieutenant and in the same year to captain. For his bravery he was awarded the Order of the British Empire and the Military Cross. In 1918 he was promoted to Major and retired in 1919 from the army from.

Ramsbotham was elected in 1929 as a member of the Conservative Party as a member of the lower house (House of Commons ) and represented there until 1941, the interests of the constituency of Lancaster. Between August 1931 and June 1935 he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Ministry of Education ( Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education ). Subsequently, he was Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries ( Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries ).

On July 30, 1936 Ramsbotham (Minister of Pensions ) was appointed to the government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to the Minister for Pensions. This post he held under Baldwin's successor, Arthur Neville Chamberlain until 1939. During a cabinet reshuffle Chamberlain appointed him on June 7, 1939 Minister of Public Works ( First Commissioner of Works ).

In April 1940 he was appointed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the Minister of Education ( President of the Board of Education). When he retired from the House of Commons and the Government in July 1941, he was charged for his services as Baron Soulbury to the peerage, and thereby also a member of the House of Lords.

On July 6, 1949 his appeal was made to the Governor General of Sri Lanka as the successor of Henry Monck Mason Moore. He held until his replacement by Oliver Goonetilleke on July 17, 1954 It is official.

After his return to Britain, he was appointed by Queen Elizabeth II Viscount Soulbury 1954. After his death in 1971 initially inherited by his eldest son James Ramsbotham the title before he fell after his death in 2004 to his younger son Sir Peter Ramsbotham.