Secretary for Overseas Trade
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Secretary for Overseas Trade was a junior Ministerial position in the United Kingdom government from 1917 until 1953, subordinate to the President of the Board of Trade.
[edit] Secretaries for Overseas Trade
- 1917: Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland
- 1919: Sir Hamar Greenwood
- 1920: Frederick George Kellaway
- 1921: Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame
- 1922: Sir William Joynson-Hicks
- March 1923: Albert Buckley
- Nov 1923: vacant
- 1924: William Lunn
- 1924: Arthur Samuel
- 1927: Douglas Hacking
- 1929: George Gillett
- 1931: Sir Edward Young
- 1931: John Colville
- 1935: Euan Wallace
- 1937: Robert Hudson
- 1940: Geoffrey Shakespeare
- 1940: Harcourt Johnstone
- 1945: Spencer Summers
- 1945: Hilary Marquand
- 1947: Harold Wilson
- 1947: Arthur Bottomley
- 1951: Henry Hopkinson
- 1952: Harry Ripley Mackeson
The office was replaced by the Minister of State for Trade on 3 September 1953.
