John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin

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John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin, GBE, PC, MC, TD (February 6, 1893 – January 24, 1957) was a British army officer, Conservative Party politician and minister in Winston Churchill's war government.

Llewellin was elected Member of Parliament for Uxbridge in Middlesex in 1929. He held a number of ministerial posts in the Coalition government, eventually serving as President of the Board of Trade for two weeks in 1942. He subsequently became Minister of Aircraft Production in which capacity he served on the combined policy committee set up by the British and United States governments under the Quebec Agreement of 1943 to oversee the construction of the atomic bomb.

In December 1943 his seat on the committee was assumed by Sir Ronald Campbell and Llewellin became Minister of Food, the position he held until the Churchill government fell to the Labour Party of Clement Attlee in July 1945. Llewellin lost his seat in the election and was made a peer as 1st Baron Llewellin of Upton.

After the war he served as Governor General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (modern Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi respectively) between 1953 and his death in January 1957.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Dennistoun Burney	Member of Parliament for Uxbridge 1929–1945	Succeeded by Frank Beswick
Political offices
Preceded by Sir Andrew Duncan	President of the Board of Trade 1942	Succeeded by Hugh Dalton
Preceded by John Moore-Brabazon	Minister of Aircraft Production 1942	Succeeded by Sir Stafford Cripps
Preceded by The Lord Woolton	Minister of Food 1943–1945	Succeeded by Sir Benjamin Smith
Preceded by (new position)	Governor-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1953–1957	Succeeded by Robert Clarkson Tredgold
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by (new creation)	Baron Llewellin 1953–1957	Succeeded by (extinct)