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William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate ( 1877 - 1960) was a British Liberal MP who later joined the Labour Party and served as Secretary of State for India in Ramsay MacDonald's second administration. In 1940 he was created Viscount Stansgate and in 1945 he became Secretary of State for Air under Clement Atlee. On his death he was succeeded as Viscount Stansgate by his second son Tony Benn.

He was son of the liberal politician John Williams Benn.


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The Viscount Peel 		Secretary of State for India
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Sir Samuel HoareSamuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood ( 1880- 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare was a British Conservative politician who served in various capacities in the Conservative and National governments of the 1920s and 1930s. He was mos
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Harold MacmillanMaurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton OM ( 10 February 1894 29 December 1986), nicknamed " Supermac" and " Mac the Knife" was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Early life Macmillan was b 		Secretary of State for Air
1945—1946 		Followed by:
Philip Noel-BakerPhilip John Noel-Baker ( November 1, 1889 October 8, 1982) was a politician, diplomat, academic and outstanding amateur athlete who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959. Noel-Baker was born to a Canadian-born Quaker father, Joseph Allen Baker, who moved


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New Creation 		Viscount Stansgate Followed by:
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