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The Right Honourable
The Lord Wilmot of Selmeston
PC
Minister of Aircraft Production
In office
4 August 1945 – 1 April 1946
MonarchGeorge VI
Prime MinisterClement Attlee
Preceded byErnest Brown
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Minister of Supply
In office
3 August 1945 – 7 October 1947
MonarchGeorge VI
Prime MinisterClement Attlee
Preceded byAndrew Rae Duncan
Succeeded byGeorge Strauss
Personal details
Born2 April 1893 (1893-04-02)
Died22 July 1964 (1964-07-23) (aged 71)
NationalityBritish
Political partyLabour
Alma materKing's College London

John Charles Wilmot, 1st Baron Wilmot of Selmeston PC (2 April 1893 – 22 July 1964) was a British Labour Party politician.[1] He served under Clement Attlee as Minister of Aircraft Production from 1945 to 1946 and as Minister of Supply from 1945 to 1947.

Education

Wilmot was educated at Hither Green central school, and went on to pursue evening classes at Chelsea Polytechnic and at King's College London.

Political career

1951 television interview

Wilmot was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Fulham East at a by-election in 1933, but lost his seat the 1935 general election.[2] In November 1937 he was elected an alderman on London County Council, remaining a member until 1945.[3][4] He returned to the House of Commons at another by-election, in 1939 as MP for Kennington.[5] He was re-elected at the 1945 election for the Deptford constituency,[6] and served in Clement Attlee's post-war government as Minister of Aircraft Production from 1945 to 1946, when that office was abolished, and as Minister of Supply from 1945 to 1947. He was admitted to the Privy Council in 1945. He retired from the House of Commons at the 1950 general election and was raised to the peerage as Baron Wilmot of Selmeston, of Selmeston in the County of Sussex, on 30 January 1950.[7]

Personal life

Lord Wimot of Selmeston died in July 1964, aged 71.

References

  1. ^ Ben Pimlott, ‘Wilmot, John Charles, Baron Wilmot of Selmeston (1893–1964)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008, accessed 8 Dec 2009
  2. ^ leighrayment.com House of Commons: Fairfield to Fylde South
  3. ^ "L.C.C. Estate at Tulse Hill". The Times. 24 November 1937. p. 11.
  4. ^ Stuart Ball, ed. (1999). Parliament and politics in the age of Churchill and Attlee: the Headlam diaries, 1935–1951. Camden Fifth Series. Royal Historical Society and Cambridge University Press. p. 432. ISBN 978-0-521-66143-0.
  5. ^ leighrayment.com House of Commons: Keighley to Kilkenny
  6. ^ leighrayment.com House of Commons: Dagenham to Deritend
  7. ^ "No. 38841". The London Gazette. 14 February 1950.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Fulham East
1933–1935 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Kennington
1939–1945 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Deptford
1945–1950 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Aircraft Production
1945–1946 		Office abolished
Preceded by Minister of Supply
1945–1947 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Wilmot of Selmeston
1950–1964 		Extinct

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