biography
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Monckton (of Brenchley), Walter Turner Monckton, 1st Viscount
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| lived:
| (1891–1965)
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| biography:
| Lawyer and statesman, born in Plaxtol, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, was called to the bar (1919), and became attorney general to the Prince of Wales (1932–6), in which capacity he was adviser to him (as Edward VIII) in the abdication crisis of 1936. He held many legal offices, and in World War 2 was director-general of the Ministry of Information, and in the 1945 caretaker government acted as solicitor general. A Conservative MP for Bristol West from 1951 until his elevation to the peerage in 1957, he was minister of labour (1951–5), minister of defence (1955–6) and paymaster-general (1956–7). |
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