Wilson, Sir Horace John (1882–1972), civil servant

by Rodney Lowe

  • Ministry of Labour
  • The general strike, unemployment, and industrial policy
  • Adviser to Baldwin and Chamberlain: appeasement
  • Head of the civil service and fall from favour

References

Themes

  • Assistant and permanent secretaries of the Treasury
  • Guilty men

Other online resources

  • Bibliography of British and Irish history
  • Churchill Archive
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Register of Archives
  • Who Was Who

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