biography
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Chandos, Oliver Lyttelton Chandos, 1st Viscount
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pronunciation:
[chandos]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1893–1972)
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| biography:
| British statesman and industrialist. He studied at Cambridge, and by 1928 was managing director of the British Metal Corporation. In 1940 he became MP for Aldershot, and President of the Board of Trade. When the Conservatives were returned to office in 1951 he went to the colonial office until his resignation from politics to return to business in 1954, when he was raised to the peerage. He played a leading part in drawing up plans of constitutional reform for many of the African colonial territories. |
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