Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom
In office 12 January 1971 – 3 February 1976
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Prime Minister
Edward Heath
Harold Wilson
Preceded by
Horace King
Succeeded by
George Thomas
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
In office 16 October 1964 – 4 August 1965
Leader
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
Preceded by
Herbert Bowden
Succeeded by
Fred Peart
Leader of the House of Commons Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
In office 18 October 1963 – 16 October 1964
Prime Minister
Sir Alec Douglas-Home
Preceded by
Iain Macleod
Succeeded by
The Earl of Longford
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 27 July 1960 – 13 July 1962
Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan
Preceded by
Derick Heathcoat Amory
Succeeded by
Reginald Maudling
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office 22 December 1955 – 27 July 1960
Prime Minister
Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Preceded by
Harold Macmillan
Succeeded by
The Earl of Home
Minister of Defence
In office 7 April 1955 – 20 December 1955
Prime Minister
Anthony Eden
Preceded by
Harold Macmillan
Succeeded by
Sir Walter Monckton
Minister of Supply
In office 18 October 1954 – 7 April 1955
Prime Minister
Sir Winston Churchill
Preceded by
Duncan Sandys
Succeeded by
Reginald Maudling
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 8 March 1976 – 18 May 1978 Life peerage
Member of Parliament for Wirral
In office 5 July 1945 – 11 March 1976
Preceded by
Alan Crosland Graham
Succeeded by
David Hunt
Personal details
Born
John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd
(1904-07-28)28 July 1904 West Kirby, Cheshire, England
Died
18 May 1978(1978-05-18) (aged 73) Preston Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire, England
Political party
Liberal (before 1945)
Conservative (1945–1971)
None (after 1971)
Spouse
Elizabeth Marshall
(m. 1951; div. 1957)
(died 2010)
Children
1
Alma mater
Fettes College
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Military career
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1937–1955
Rank
Colonel
Unit
Royal Artillery
Battles/wars
Second World War
Operation Overlord
Falaise Pocket
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine
Operation Plunder
Awards
Commander of the Order of the British Empire Mentioned in despatches (2x) Territorial Decoration Legion of Merit (Commander)
John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn-Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd, CH, CBE, TD, PC, QC, DL (28 July 1904 – 18 May 1978) was a British politician. Born and raised in Cheshire, he was an active Liberal as a young man in the 1920s. In the following decade, he practised as a barrister and served on Hoylake Urban District Council, by which time he had become a Conservative Party sympathiser. During the Second World War he rose to be Deputy Chief of Staff of Second Army, playing an important role in planning sea transport to the Normandy beachhead and reaching the acting rank of brigadier.
Elected to Parliament in 1945 as a Conservative, he held ministerial office from 1951, eventually rising to be Foreign Secretary under Prime Minister Anthony Eden from April 1955. His tenure coincided with the Suez Crisis, for which he at first attempted to negotiate a peaceful settlement, before reluctantly assisting with Eden's wish to negotiate collusion with France and Israel as a prelude to military action. He continued as Foreign Secretary under the premiership of Harold Macmillan until July 1960, when he was moved to the job of Chancellor of the Exchequer. In this job he set up the NEDC, but became an increasingly unpopular figure because of the contractionary measures which he felt compelled to take, including the "Pay Pause" of July 1961, culminating in the sensational Liberal victory at the Orpington by-election in March 1962. In July 1962 Macmillan sacked him from the Cabinet, making him the highest-profile casualty in the reshuffle known as the "Night of the Long Knives".
He returned to office under Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home as Leader of the House of Commons (1963–64), and was elected Speaker of the House of Commons from 1971 until his retirement in 1976.
John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn-Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd, CH, CBE, TD, PC, QC, DL (28 July 1904 – 18 May 1978) was a British politician. Born and raised in...
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Horace King. The election resulted in the election of Conservative MP SelwynLloyd, formerly Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary. It was the...
Colville noted, in respect of Suez, that Eden and his Foreign Secretary SelwynLloyd "felt still more beholden to the French on account of this offer". Eden...
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meeting was opened at 10 Downing Street between British Foreign Secretary SelwynLloyd, U.S. Ambassador Robert D. Murphy and French Foreign Affairs Minister...
Conservative Party prior to becoming Speaker, he was the first MP since SelwynLloyd in 1971 to be elected Speaker without having been a Deputy Speaker. After...
bellow with pain. After talking to Jonathan Aitken, who was working for SelwynLloyd at the time, he put £1,000 on the eventual winner Alec Douglas-Home at...
Macmillan except for Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, who was for Butler, and SelwynLloyd, who abstained. Salisbury may not have been an entirely impartial returning...
secretly agreed – "collusion" – by Eden and SelwynLloyd). At Cabinet on the morning of 30 October, Lloyd reported that the USA was ready to move a motion...
Mid Bedfordshire Secretary of State for the Colonies 1954 Conservative SelwynLloyd Chelmsford Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1955 Labour Anthony...
Chancellor of the Exchequer. SelwynLloyd succeeded Macmillan as Foreign Secretary. Sir Walter Monckton succeeded Lloyd as Minister of Defence. Iain Macleod...
respond to Maudling's statement but was denied by Speaker of the House SelwynLloyd; Devlin responded by walking across the commons floor and slapping Maudling...
Minister Harold Macmillan Preceded by The Viscount Hailsham Succeeded by SelwynLloyd Minister of Labour In office 14 October 1959 – 27 July 1960 Prime Minister...
diplomats. With 'cabal' Acheson openly alleged that Anthony Eden and SelwynLloyd of the United Kingdom, Mike Pearson and Paul Martin of Canada, and R...
George Asprey as Walter Monckton, Minister of Defence Richard Elfyn as SelwynLloyd, Foreign Secretary; later Chancellor of the Exchequer Michael Culkin...
1971 (1965) (1966) (1970) 43 44 45 Labour Baron Maybray-King for Life SelwynLloyd CH CBE QC DL MP for Wirral (1904–1978) E & R 12 January 1971 3 February...
T. Wegner, German human rights activist (b. 1886) May 18 – SelwynLloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd, English politician (b. 1904) May 20 Ernest Cadine, French...