Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter

The Right Honourable The Lord Salter GBE KCB PC
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 25 May 1945 – 26 July 1945
Preceded by	Ernest Brown
Succeeded by	John Hynd
Minister for Economic Affairs
In office 1951–1952
Preceded by	Hugh Gaitskell
Succeeded by	Office Abolished
Member of Parliament for Oxford University
In office 27 February 1937 – 23 February 1950
Preceded by	Hugh Cecil
Succeeded by	Constituency Abolsihed
Member of Parliament for Ormskirk
In office 5 April 1951 – 12 November 1953
Preceded by	Ronald Cross
Succeeded by	Douglas Glover
Personal details
Born	James Arthur Salter 15 March 1881
Died	27 June 1975 (aged 94)
Alma mater	Brasenose College, Oxford

James Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter, GBE, KCB, PC (15 March 1881 – 27 June 1975) was a British politician and academic.

Salter was the eldest son of James Edward Salter (1857–1937) of the Thames boating company Salters Steamers, and who became Mayor of Oxford in 1909. Educated at Oxford City High School and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was a scholar, he graduated with first class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1903.

Salter joined the Civil Service in 1904 and worked in the transport department of the Admiralty, on national insurance, and as private secretary, being promoted to Assistant Secretary grade in 1913. On the outbreak of war, he was recalled to the Admiralty, and became director of ship requisitioning. He was sent to Washington D.C. to press for a US programme of new construction. In 1917/18 he was a colleague of Jean Monnet in the Chartering Committee of the Allied Maritime Transport Council, and in 1919 appointed secretary of the Supreme Economic Council in Paris. Salter then worked as head of the economic and financial section of the League of Nations secretariat, and in the League secretariat at Geneva, where he worked for stabilization of currencies of Austria and Hungary and resettlement of refugees in Greece and Bulgaria.

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