John Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin
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John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin Template:Postnominals (6 February 1893 – 24 January 1957) was a British army officer, Conservative Party politician and minister in Winston Churchill's war government.
Background
Llewellin was the son of William Llewellin, of Upton House, Dorset, and Frances Mary, daughter of L. D. Wigan. He was educated at Eton.Template:CN
Military career
Llewellin was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1914 and reached the rank of major during the First World War, winning the Military Cross in 1917.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> He remained in the Territorial Army after the war and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel commanding the Dorset Heavy Brigade in 1932.
He was promoted colonel in 1936 and retired in 1938. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1926,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> promoted to a Commander (CBE) in 1939,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and then was made a Knight Grand Cross (GBE) in 1953.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>
Political career
Llewellin was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge in Middlesex in 1929. He held a number of ministerial posts in the Coalition government, eventually serving as President of the Board of Trade for two weeks in 1942.Template:Citation needed He subsequently became Minister of Aircraft Production until replaced by Sir Stafford Cripps in November 1942.Template:Sfn Later, Llewellin served on the Combined Policy Committee set up by the British and United States governments under the Quebec Agreement of 1943 to oversee the construction of the atomic bomb.Template:Citation needed
In December 1943, Llewellin's seat on the committee was assumed by Sir Ronald Campbell and Llewellin became Minister of Food, the position he held until the Churchill government fell to the Labour Party of Clement Attlee in July 1945.Template:Citation needed Llewellin lost his seat in the election and was raised to the peerage as Baron Llewellin, of Upton in the County of Dorset.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> After the war he served as Governor General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland between 1953 and his death in January 1957.Template:Citation needed
Personal life
Lord Lewellin died in January 1957, aged 63. The barony became extinct with his death.
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- 1893 births
- 1957 deaths
- Admiralty personnel of World War II
- British Army personnel of World War I
- British secretaries of state
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers
- Governors-general of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
- Lords of the Admiralty
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Ministers in the Chamberlain peacetime government, 1937–1939
- Ministers in the Chamberlain wartime government, 1939–1940
- Ministers in the Churchill caretaker government, 1945
- Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945
- Barons created by George VI
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- Royal Garrison Artillery officers
- UK MPs 1929–1931
- UK MPs 1931–1935
- UK MPs 1935–1945
- UK MPs who were granted peerages
- Food ministers of the United Kingdom