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After Asquith's fall in late 1916 , Simon remained in opposition as an Asquithite Liberal until 1918 , and once again after 1922 . From 1927 to 1931 he chaired the Simon Commission on India's constitution. In 1931 , when the Liberals split once again, Simon became leader of the National Liberals who supported protectionism and Ramsay MacDonald's Coalition government, and served as Foreign Secretary under MacDonald, and then as Home Secretary and Deputy Leader Of The House Of Commons under Baldwin and Chancellor Of The Exchequer under Chamberlain . Over this time, Simon's National Liberals became hardly distinguishable from the Conservatives. In 1940, Simon was raised to the peerage as Viscount Simon, of Stackpole Elidor in the County of Pembroke, and became Lord Chancellor in Churchill's government, although he did not sit in the War Cabinet. In 1945 Churchill formed a brief peacetime administration but once again excluded Simon from the Cabinet - an unprecedented move in peacetime. With Churchill's defeat in 1945, Simon retired from public life. His portrait (by Frank O. Salisbury , 1944 ) is in the National Portrait Gallery .

After his death in 1954, Simon's estate was probated at 93,006 pounds sterling.