Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
In office 1940–1941
Prime Minister
Winston Churchill
Preceded by
Lord Dunglass
Succeeded by
George Harvie-Watt
Member of Parliament for Bournemouth East and Christchurch Bournemouth (1945–1950)
In office 15 November 1945 – 7 January 1952
Preceded by
Leonard Lyle
Succeeded by
Nigel Nicolson
Member of Parliament for Paddington North
In office 30 May 1929 – 5 July 1945
Preceded by
William Perring
Succeeded by
Noel Mason-MacFarlane
Personal details
Born
15 February 1901 (1901-02-15) Templemore, County Tipperary, Ireland
Died
8 August 1958 (1958-08-09) (aged 57) London, England
Nationality
British
Political party
Conservative
Brendan Rendall Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken, PC (15 February 1901 – 8 August 1958) was an Irish-born businessman, politician and a minister in the British Conservative cabinet. He is best remembered for supporting Winston Churchill during the Second World War. He was also the founder of the modern version of the Financial Times.[1] He was Minister of Information from 1941 to 1945.
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Brendan Rendall Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken, PC (15 February 1901 – 8 August 1958) was an Irish-born businessman, politician and a minister in the British...
Christchurch at a by-election in February 1952, when the previous MP, BrendanBracken, was elevated to the House of Lords. Nicolson was re-elected in the...
between the two papers eventually culminated in a 1945 merger, led by BrendanBracken, which established it as one of the largest business newspapers in...
the first year of marriage, Randolph had no home of his own until BrendanBracken found them a vicarage at Ickleford, near Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Pamela...
magazine was first published in January 1926 through founding Editor, BrendanBracken of the Financial News, who went on to become the chairman of the Financial...
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longer be the spokesman in the Commons as he had been under Cranborne. BrendanBracken advised him not to quit. After Harry Crookshank had refused the job...
reshuffle: Duncan Sandys became Financial Secretary at the War Office and BrendanBracken became Minister of Information. Cuthbert Headlam wrote of Cooper at...
"poverty trap"). Inside the Cabinet, there was debate, instigated by BrendanBracken, on 16 November 1942 over whether to publish the Report as a White...
from the government (22 October 1940), Churchill's close supporter BrendanBracken offered Butler promotion to the Cabinet-level job of President of the...
historiography. The magazine was founded after the Second World War, by BrendanBracken, former Minister of Information, chairman of the Financial Times and...
published in the July issue of English Life (a magazine founded by BrendanBracken): Matteotti accused Sinclair Oil of being a pawn of Standard Oil, as...
Eden Home Secretary Sir Donald Somervell First Lord of the Admiralty BrendanBracken Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Robert Hudson Secretary...
ambition, said to be based on Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Birkenhead and BrendanBracken. Mottram wins a seat in the House of Commons. Through his marriage...
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