Waverley, John Anderson, Viscount Westdean, 1883?-1958

1917-1919 secretary to Ministry of Shipping; 1918 CB; 1919-1922 chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue; 1919 KCB; 1920-1922 under-secretary for Ireland; 1922-1932 under-secretary at the Home Office; 1923 GCB; 1932-1937 governor of Bengal; 1932 GCIE; 1937 GCSI; ; 1938-1950 independent MP for Scottish Universities; 1939-1940 home secretary and minister of home security; 1940-1943 lord president of the council; 1943-1945 chancellor of the exchequer; 1952 peerage; 1957 Order of Merit

Epithet: Civil Servant

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