Under-Secretary of State for Air
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The Under-Secretary of State for Air was a junior ministerial post in the United Kingdom Government, supporting the Secretary of State for Air. It was established on 10 January 1919, replacing the previous short-lived posts of Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Board and Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Council
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[edit] Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Board (1916-17)
- 1916 : John Baird
[edit] Parliamentary Secretary to the Air Council (1917-19)
- 1917 : John Baird
[edit] Under-Secretary of State for Air (1919 - 64)
- 1919: John Seely
- 1919: George Tryon
- 1920: Marquess of Londonderry
- 1921: Lord Gorell
- 1922: Duke of Sutherland
- 1924: William Leach
- 1924: Sir Philip Sassoon
- 1929: Frederick Montague
- 1931: Sir Philip Sassoon
- 1937: Anthony Muirhead
- 1938: Harold Balfour (to Nov 1944)
- 1941: Baron Sherwood (to 1945)
- 1944 : Rupert Brabner (to 1945)
- 1945: Quintin Hogg (to 1945)
- 1945: Earl Beatty
- 1945: John Strachey
- 1946: Geoffrey de Freitas
- 1950: Aidan Crawley
- 1951: Nigel Birch
- 1952: George Reginald Ward
- 1955: Christopher Soames
- 1957: Charles Ian Orr-Ewing
- 1959: Airey Neave
- 1959: William Taylor
- 1962: Julian Ridsdale (to 1964)
[edit] Minister of State (Air Force) (1964-67)
- 1964: Hugh Fraser
- 1964: Lord Shackleton
Office abolished 7 January 1967
[edit] Under-Secretary of State (Air Force) (1964-)
- 1964: Julian Ridsdale
- 1964: Bruce Millan
- 1966: Merlyn Rees
- 1968: Lord Winterbottom
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