Ronald John McNeill

The Right Honourable The Lord Cushendun PC
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 19 October 1927 – 4 June 1929
Prime Minister	Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by	The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Succeeded by	Oswald Mosley
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office 1925–1927
Preceded by	Walter Guinness
Succeeded by	Arthur Samuel

Ronald John McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun PC (30 April 1861 – 12 October 1934) was a British Conservative politician.

McNeill was born in Ulster, the son of Edmund McNeill DL, JP and Sheriff of County Antrim, and his wife Mary (née Miller). He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1886. After being called to the bar in 1888, he worked as editor of The St James's Gazette (1900–04) as well as assistant editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1906–10).

Having unsuccessfully contested the seats of West Aberdeenshire (1906), Aberdeen South (1907 and Jan 1910), and Kirkcudbrightshire (Dec 1910), McNeill was elected as Unionist Member of Parliament for the St Augustine's division of Kent in 1911. Seven years later he became representative for Canterbury, and in 1922 was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a post he held, with a short interval for the first Labour Government of 1924, until 1925.

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