Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount Soulbury

Ramsbotham sat as a Member Of Parliament for Lancaster from 1929 to 1941 and served under Neville Chamberlain as Minister Of Pensions from 1936 to 1939 and as First Commissioner Of Works from 1939 to 1940. In 1939 he became a member of the Privy Council and during the Second World War he served in the wartime coalition of Winston Churchill as President Of The Board Of Education from 1940 to 1941. The latter year he was raised to the peerage as Baron Soulbury, of Soulbury in the County of Buckinghamshire.

Ramsbotham later served as Chairman of the Assistance Board from 1941 to 1948 and as Governor-General Of Ceylon from 1949 to 1954. In 1955 he was further honoured when he was created Viscount Soulbury, of Soulbury in the County of Buckinghamshire.

Lord Soulbury died in January 1971 at the age of 83. He was succeeded in the Viscountcy by his eldest son James . His younger son Sir Peter Ramsbotham notably served as British Ambassador To The United States from 1974 to 1977.

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