The Right Honourable The Lord Salter GBE KCB PC |
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Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster | |
In office 25 May 1945 – 26 July 1945 |
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Preceded by | Ernest Brown |
Succeeded by | John Hynd |
Minister for Economic Affairs | |
In office 1951–1952 |
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Preceded by | Hugh Gaitskell |
Succeeded by | Office Abolished |
Member of Parliament for Oxford University |
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In office 27 February 1937 – 23 February 1950 |
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Preceded by | Hugh Cecil |
Succeeded by | Constituency Abolsihed |
Member of Parliament for Ormskirk |
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In office 5 April 1951 – 12 November 1953 |
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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.