Robert Stevenson Horne, 1st Viscount Horne

Horne was a director of the Suez Canal Company , chairman of the Great Western Railway Company and director of several other companies and banks. He was Examiner in Philosophy and Lord Rector at the University Of Aberdeen and a member of the Faculty Of Advocates .

Horne was elected as Member Of Parliament for Glasgow Hillhead in 1918 .

He served as Civil Lord Of The Admiralty , Minister Of Labour , President Of The Board Of Trade and Chancellor Of The Exchequer under Lloyd George after the First World War.

When the Lloyd George Coalition Government fell in 1922 , Horne refused to join the new government of Andrew Bonar Law . Two years later Stanley Baldwin offered to make Horne Minister of Labour once more, but Horne declined, preferring to concentrate on work in The City . Although he remained a Member of Parliament until 1937 , he never again held ministerial office.

Horne was famously referred to by Baldwin as a "Scots Cad ", a remark that has stuck.

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