Simon, John Allsebrook, first Viscount Simon (1873–1954), politician and lawyer

by D. J. Dutton

  • Education, the bar, and marriage
  • Liberal lawyer
  • Post-war politics
  • Foreign secretary in the National Government
  • Home secretary and chancellor of the exchequer
  • Lord chancellor
  • Assessment of career

References

See also

Themes

  • Chancellors of the exchequer
  • Secretaries of state for foreign affairs
  • Secretaries of state for the Home department
  • Lord chancellors of England and Great Britain
  • Liberal Nationals
  • Guilty men
  • Cliveden set

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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