Leslie Hore-Belisha (1893-1957; ODNB); St John's Coll., Oxford, army service, 1914-19; barrister 1923; MP(L) 1923-31 (Lib Nat) 1931-42 (indep) 1942-5, Devonport; junior minister, 1931-4; minister of transport, 1934-7; war secretary, 1937-40, undertaking army reforms, but after disagreements with senior officers, sensationally removed by Neville Chamberlain in Jan. 1940; minister of national insurance, 1945; baron, 1954. See Volume 78.

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