List: Secretaries of State for the Colonies (UK)

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•  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and prolific novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. But, like many authors of the period, his style now seems florid and embellished to modern tastes.

  

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•  Winston Churchill

  Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, FRS (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, an historian, writer and artist.

  

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•  Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

  Sidney James Webb, 1st Baron Passfield PC (13 July 1859 – 13 October 1947) was a British socialist, economist and reformer who is typically mentioned in the same breath as his wife, Beatrice Webb. He was one of the early members of the Fabian Society in 1884, along with G. Bernard Shaw (they joined three months after its inception). Along with Beatrice, Annie Besant, Graham Wallas, Edward R.

  

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•  Duncan Sandys

  Edwin Duncan Sandys, Baron Duncan-Sandys CH PC (24 January 1908 – 26 November 1987) was a British politician and a minister in successive Conservative governments in the 1950s and 1960s. He was some years the son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill.

  

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•  Iain Macleod

  Iain Norman Macleod (11 November 1913 – 20 July 1970) was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister.

  

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•  Reginald Maudling

  Reginald Maudling (7 March 1917 - 14 February 1979) was a British politician who held several Cabinet posts, including Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had been spoken of as a prospective Conservative leader since 1955, and was twice seriously considered for the post; he was Edward Heath's chief rival in 1965. He also held many directorships in the British financial world.

  

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•  Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe

  Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe KG, PC (12 January 1858–20 June 1945), known as The Lord Houghton from 1885 to 1895 and as The Earl of Crewe from 1895 to 1911, was a British statesman and writer.

  

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•  Malcolm MacDonald

  Malcolm John MacDonald OM, PC (17 August 1901 – 11 January 1981) was a British politician and diplomat.

  

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•  Oliver Stanley

  Oliver Frederick George Stanley MC, PC (4 May 1896 – 10 December 1950) was a prominent British Conservative politician who held many ministerial posts before his early death when it was expected he would soon assume higher office.

  

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•  Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton

  Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton GBE, CH, MC, PC (1 May 1884 – 27 July 1972), known as Philip Lloyd-Greame until 1924 and as The Viscount Swinton from 1935 until 1955, was a prominent British Conservative politician from the 1920s until the 1950s.

  

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•  George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd

  George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran GCSI, GCIE, DSO, PC (19 September 1879 – 4 February 1941) was a British Conservative politician strongly associated with the "Diehard" wing of the party.

  

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•  Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

  Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos KG, PC, DSO, MC (15 March 1893 – 21 January 1972) was a British businessman who was brought into government during the Second World War, holding a number of ministerial posts.

  

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