Selwyn Lloyd

Selwyn Lloyd (actually John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn -Lloyd since 1976, born July 28, 1904 in West Kirby near Liverpool, † May 18 1978 in Oxfordshire ) was a conservative British politician.

Career

Selwyn Lloyd was the son of John Wesley (Jack) Lloyd and Mary Rachel Warhurst. He attended the Leas School in Hoylake, the Fettes College in Edinburgh and the Magdalene College, Cambridge.

In 1930 he was appointed by the Gray's Inn on the legal profession, founded in Liverpool a law firm and was admitted before the Hoylake Urban District Council. After he had in 1929 unsuccessfully ran for Liberal candidate for Parliament in Macclesfield, he initially concentrated on his legal career. In 1931 he left the Liberals and joined the Conservatives. From 1932 to 1940 he was a municipal councilor in Hoylake.

When the Second World War broke out, he was drafted into the Royal Horse Artillery, where he served in the General Staff until 1942. In 1943 he was assigned to the Second British Army, where he was involved in the planning of D-Day. On D-Day he was with his commanding officer, Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey on the French coast. In 1945 he was promoted to brigadier general.

As a representative of his constituency Wirral he moved into the British House of Commons in the 1945 election. In the government of Winston Churchill, Lloyd was from 1951 to 1954 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Anthony Eden, Minister of State. After having worked as defense minister from 1954-1955 as minister of supply ( Ministry of Supply), and in 1955, he was Secretary of State in the same year. During his tenure, the Suez crisis, which led to the resignation of Prime Minister Eden and his government, but Lloyd was in 1960 Secretary of State in the Cabinet Macmillan and had subsequently ( 1960-1962 ) held the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer fell.

In 1951 he married Elizabeth Marshall, with whom he had a daughter and from whom he was divorced in 1957.

In the so-called Night of the Long Knives on July 13, 1962 Prime Minister Macmillan sacked seven of his Cabinet members, including Lloyd, who was then a simple Abgeordner in the House until he in 1963 by Alec Douglas - Home as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons was brought back into the government, which he left only after the electoral defeat of the Conservatives in 1964.

In the Conservative government in 1971, he was the successor to the Labour politician Horace King House Chairman ( Speaker of the British House of Commons ); He held the office until 1976. In the same year he was raised to the peerage and took the title since Baron Selwyn -Lloyd, of Wirral in the County of Merseyside.

Selwyn Lloyd died in 1978 in his estate in Oxfordshire.

In-house publications

  • Mr Speaker, Sir. In 1976.
  • Suez 1956: a Personal View. In 1978.
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