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John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley

John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
Personal data
Date of birth8 July 1882
Place of birthEskbank, Midlothian, Scotland
Date of death4 January 1958(age 75)
Political partyNational
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office24 September 1943 - 26 July 1945
Prime ministerWinston Churchill
Succeeded byHugh Dalton
Preceded byKingsley Wood
Home Secretary
In office4 September 1939 - 4 October 1940
Prime ministerNeville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Succeeded byHerbert Morrison
Preceded bySamuel Hoare

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John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, PC, PC (Ireland) (8 July 1882 - 4 January 1958) was a British civil servant then politician who served as a minister under Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill as Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Due to his service to Government during the Second World War he was often dubbed as 'The Home Front Prime Minister'.

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Government offices
Preceded by
James Macmahon
Macmahon also remained Joint Under-Secretary
Joint Permanent Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1920 - 1922
Preceded by
Sir Edward Troup
Permanent Under-Secretary for the Home Department
1922 - 1932
Succeeded by
Sir Russell Scott
Preceded by
Sir Stanley Jackson
Governor of Bengal
1932 - 1937
Succeeded by
The Lord Brabourne
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Ramsay MacDonald
Member of Parliament for Combined Scottish Universities
1938 - 1950
Political offices
Preceded by
The Earl De La Warr
Lord Privy Seal
1938 - 1939
Succeeded by
Sir Samuel Hoare
Preceded by
Sir Samuel Hoare
Home Secretary
1939 - 1940
Succeeded by
Herbert Stanley Morrison
Preceded by
Neville Chamberlain
Lord President of the Council
1940 - 1943
Succeeded by
Clement Attlee
Preceded by
Sir Kingsley Wood
Chancellor of the Exchequer
1943 - 1945
Succeeded by
Hugh Dalton
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Viscount Waverley
1952 - 1958
Succeeded by
David Alastair Pearson Anderson

Chancellors of the Exchequer

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of the
United Kingdom
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Home Secretaries of the United Kingdom

of Great BritainShelburne * Sydney * North * Temple * Sydney * Grenville * Dundas * Portland
of the United KingdomPelham * Yorke * Hawkesbury * Spencer * Liverpool * Ryder * Sidmouth * Peel * Bourne * Lansdowne * Peel * Melbourne * Duncannon * Wellington * Goulburn * Russell * Normanby * Graham * Grey * Walpole * Palmerston * Grey * Walpole * Sotheron-Estcourt * Cornewall Lewis * Grey * Walpole * Hardy * Bruce * Lowe * Cross * Harcourt * Cross * Childers * Matthews * Asquith * Ridley * Ritchie * Akers-Douglas * Gladstone * Churchill * McKenna * Simon * Samuel * Cave * Shortt * Bridgeman * Henderson * Joynson-Hicks * Clynes * Samuel * Gilmour * Simon * Hoare * Anderson * Morrison * Somervell * Ede * Fyfe * Lloyd George * Butler * Brooke * Soskice * Jenkins * Callaghan * Maudling * Carr * Jenkins * Rees * Whitelaw * Brittan * Hurd * Waddington * Baker * Clarke * Howard * Straw * Blunkett * Clarke * Reid * Smith * Johnson * May



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