1933 OFFICIAL PAID MAIL- SIR JOHN SIMON- Foreign Office to Sir Felix Pole.

Description: 1933 OFFICIAL PAID MAIL- SIR JOHN SIMON- Foreign Office to Sir Felix Pole. John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, GCSI, GCVO, OBE, PC (28 February 1873 – 11 January 1954), was a British politician who held senior Cabinet posts from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second World War. He is one of only three people to have served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, the others being Rab Butler and James Callaghan. He also served as Lord Chancellor, the most senior position in the British legal system. Beginning his career as a Liberal (identified initially with the left wing[1] but later with the right wing of the party),[2] he joined the National Government in 1931, creating the Liberal National Party in the process. At the end of his career, he was essentially a Conservative. Sir Felix John Clewett Pole (1 February 1877 – 15 January 1956) was a British railway manager and industrialist. He was general manager of the Great Western Railway from 1921 to 1929, before becoming executive chairman of Associated Electrical Industries, a post he held until 1945. Born in Little Bedwyn in Wiltshire,[2] Pole joined the Great Western Railway as a telegraph lad at Swindon, aged 14, in 1891. He was rapidly promoted and in 1904 was working in General Manager James Charles Inglis's department in the headquarters at Paddington station, working on the railway's marketing campaigns. In 1912 he became head of the Staff and Labour Department, rising to Assistant General Manager in 1919 and finally General Manager in 1921. Pole was knighted in 1924[4] and left the Great Western Railway in 1929 to become Executive Chairman of AEI. Pole, who was reported to be completely blind by 1945, was thought too old to lead the company into the post-war electronics boom and was succeeded by Captain Oliver Lyttelton. Pole died at Reading in 1956 and is buried in Little Bedwyn : Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution

Price: 45 GBP

Location: Maryport

End Time: 2024-11-09T18:34:03.000Z

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