|
|
|
|
|
John Jestyn Llewellin, 1St Baron LlewellinColonel John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin, C.B.E., M.C., M.P. (February 6, 1893 - January 24, 1957) was a British army officer and minister in Winston Churchill's war government. Member of Parliament for Uxbridge in Middlesex, he later sat in the House of Lords as 1st Baron Llewellin of Upton. Serving as President of the Board of Trade for two weeks in 1942 he subsequently became Minister of Aircraft Production in which capacity he 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. In December 1943 his seat on the committee was assumed by Sir Ronald Campbell and Llewellin became Minister for Food, the position he held until the Churchill government fell to the Labour party of Clement Attlee in July 1945. After the war he was Governor General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (modern Zimbabwe and Malawi respectively) between 1953 and his death in January 1957. Llewellin, John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin, John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin, John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin, John Jestyn
|
 |
|
| Copyright 2005-2009 OnPedia.com. All Rights Reserved |
|
|