biography
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Simon (of Stackpole Elidor), John (Allsebrook) Simon, 1st Viscount
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| lived:
| (1873–1954)
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| biography:
| British statesman and lawyer, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He studied at Edinburgh and Oxford, entered parliament in 1906, and was knighted in 1910. He was attorney general (1913–15) and home secretary (1915–16), before resigning from the cabinet for his opposition to conscription. Deserting the Liberals to form the Liberal National Party, he supported MacDonald's coalition governments and became foreign secretary (1931–5), home secretary in the Conservative government (1935–7), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1937–40), and Lord Chancellor in Churchill's wartime coalition (1940–5). He was created a viscount in 1940. |
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