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The Earl Alexander of Hillsborough | |
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Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords Shadow Leader of the House of Lords | |
In office 14 December 1955 – 16 October 1964 | |
Party Leader | Hugh Gaitskell Harold Wilson |
Preceded by | The Earl Jowitt |
Succeeded by | The Lord Carrington |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
In office 28 February 1950 – 26 October 1951 | |
Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
Preceded by | Hugh Dalton |
Succeeded by | The Viscount Swinton |
Minister of Defence | |
In office 20 December 1946 – 28 February 1950 | |
Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
Preceded by | Clement Attlee |
Succeeded by | Manny Shinwell |
First Lord of the Admiralty | |
In office 3 August 1945 – 4 October 1946 | |
Monarch | George VI |
Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
Preceded by | Brendan Bracken |
Succeeded by | George Hall |
In office 11 May 1940 – 25 May 1945 | |
Monarch | George VI |
Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
Preceded by | Winston Churchill |
Succeeded by | Brendan Bracken |
In office 7 June 1929 – 24 August 1931 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | William Bridgeman |
Succeeded by | Sir Austen Chamberlain |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade | |
In office 23 January 1924 – 4 November 1924 | |
Monarch | George V |
Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
Preceded by | Viscount Wolmer |
Succeeded by | Robert Burton-Chadwick |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 27 February 1950 – 11 January 1965 Hereditary Peerage | |
Preceded by | Peerage created |
Succeeded by | Peerage extinct |
Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hillsborough | |
In office 14 November 1935 – 23 February 1950 | |
Preceded by | Gurney Braithwaite |
Succeeded by | George Darling |
In office 15 November 1922 – 27 October 1931 | |
Preceded by | Arthur Neal |
Succeeded by | Gurney Braithwaite |
Personal details | |
Born | Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England | 1 May 1885
Died | 11 January 1965 London, England | (aged 79)
Political party | Labour and Co-operative |
Spouse |
Esther Chapple (m. 1908) |
Albert Victor Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, KG, CH, PC (1 May 1885 – 11 January 1965) was a British Labour and Co-operative politician. He was three times First Lord of the Admiralty, including during the Second World War, and then Minister of Defence under Clement Attlee.