The Henson Journals

Robert Stevenson Horne

Robert Horne (1871-1940; ODNB), barr., KC 1910, specialising in commercial law; director of railways, western front, 1915-17; managerial posts in the Admiralty, 1917-18; MP (C) Glasgow Hillhead, 1918-37: minister of labour, 1919-20; president, board of trade, 1920-21; chancellor of the exchequer, 1921-22; lucrative City directorships thereafter, declining cabinet posts in 1923 and 1924; Viscount Horne 1937

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