• Donald Bradley Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow, OBE PC (24 August 1889 – 18 November 1960) was a British barrister, judge and Conservative Party...
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  • composer Brehon B. Somervell (1892–1955), American general D. C. Somervell (1885–1965), British historian Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow (1889–1960)...
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    framers of the Statute of Westminster, expressed to Attorney-General Donald Somervell on 23 November 1936 the concern that the Irish Free State might refuse...
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    the inter-war period, he was Minister of Transport during the Second MacDonald ministry, then after losing his parliamentary seat in the 1931 general election...
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    Crown's legal authorities: On 14 April 1937, Attorney General Sir Donald Somervell submitted to Home Secretary Sir John Simon a memorandum summarising...
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    1945 – 26 July 1945 Prime Minister Winston Churchill Preceded by Sir Donald Somervell Succeeded by Sir Hartley Shawcross Solicitor-General for England In...
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    simply as "Mr Edward Windsor". On 14 April 1937, Attorney General Sir Donald Somervell submitted to Home Secretary Sir John Simon a memorandum summarising...
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    at the age of twenty-six. The first Labour Government, under Ramsay MacDonald, took office in January 1924. Eden's maiden speech (19 February 1924) was...
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    Sir John Anderson Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Home Secretary Sir Donald Somervell First Lord of the Admiralty Brendan Bracken Minister of Agriculture...
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    Postmaster General Sir Philip Sassoon – First Commissioner of Works Sir Donald Somervell – Attorney General Sir Terence O'Connor – Solicitor General David Margesson...
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    Ramsay MacDonald took power. Churchill had hoped they would be defeated by a Conservative-Liberal coalition. He strongly opposed the MacDonald government's...
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    Herbert Morrison MP for Hackney South 4 October 1940 23 May 1945 Labour Donald Somervell MP for Crewe 25 May 1945 26 July 1945 Conservative Churchill Caretaker...
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  • 1945 general election, defeating the Conservative Home Secretary, Sir Donald Somervell, and held the seat until he retired at the February 1974 general election...
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    Manningham-Buller, Lionel Heald, Frank Soskice, David Maxwell Fyfe, Donald Somervell, William Jowitt; Directors of Public Prosecutions include Sir Thomas...
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    election – in which he lost his Bristol seat.[citation needed] When Ramsay MacDonald formed his National Government in 1931, Inskip, who had been elected in...
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    United Kingdom by King George V, following the resignation of Ramsay MacDonald in June 1935. As a National Government it contained members of the Conservative...
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    Liberal National 11 November 1943 23 May 1945 Attorney General Sir Donald Somervell Conservative 15 May 1940 23 May 1945 Lord Advocate Thomas Cooper Conservative...
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    Sir John Anderson Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Home Secretary Sir Donald Somervell First Lord of the Admiralty Brendan Bracken Minister of Agriculture...
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    1932 18 March 1936 Conservative Baldwin (Third National ministry) Donald Somervell 18 March 1936 25 May 1945 Chamberlain (Fourth National ministry) Chamberlain...
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    Conservative Sir Boyd Merriman 26 January 1932 29 September 1933 Sir Donald Somervell 29 September 1933 19 March 1936 Stanley Baldwin Sir Terence O'Connor...
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    just returned from his summit attempt with Somervell, and informed Norton that if his summit bid with Somervell had failed, he had planned to make one further...
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    Sir John Anderson Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Home Secretary Sir Donald Somervell First Lord of the Admiralty Brendan Bracken Minister of Agriculture...
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    1945 – 26 October 1951 Prime Minister Clement Attlee Preceded by Sir Donald Somervell Succeeded by Sir David Maxwell Fyfe Parliamentary Secretary to the...
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    appointed 22 December 1940 Home Secretary Donald Somervell Conservative succeeded Herbert Morrison; Somervell was previously Attorney General First Lord...
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    Tryon – Postmaster General Lord Winterton – Paymaster General Sir Donald Somervell – Attorney General Sir Terence O'Connor – Solicitor General David Margesson...
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    the Soviet Union, writing in a leader: "We are not fighting Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in his saner moments, but the Russian Bolshevists and the shade of Lenin...
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  • In 1937, when the bill was still in committee, the attorney-general Donald Somervell had said: There might well arise a case where the heir to the Throne...
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    As Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Privy Seal in 1934 in Ramsay MacDonald's National Government, he was promoted serving as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary...
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    Sir John Anderson Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Home Secretary Sir Donald Somervell First Lord of the Admiralty Brendan Bracken Minister of Agriculture...
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    Sir John Anderson Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Home Secretary Sir Donald Somervell First Lord of the Admiralty Brendan Bracken Minister of Agriculture...
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