Members of the British Liberal Party's Frontbench Team from 1945 to 1956 (leaderships listed chronologically):
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Clement Davies
Edward Clement Davies (19 February 1884 – 23 March 1962) was a Welsh politician and leader of the Liberal Party from 1945 to 1956.
Early life and education
Edward Clement Davies was born on 19 February 1884 in Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, ...
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Leader
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Tom Horabin: Chief Whip
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*1946: Tom Horabin defects to
Labour Party and is replaced as Chief Whip by
Frank Byers
Charles Frank Byers, Baron Byers, (24 July 1915 – 6 February 1984) was a British Liberal Party politician who later became a life peer and Privy Councillor.
Background
Byers was born in Wallasey, Cheshire. He was the son of Charles Cecil By ...
*July 1949:
Violet Bonham Carter
Helen Violet Bonham Carter, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury, (15 April 1887 – 19 February 1969), known until her marriage as Violet Asquith, was a British politician and diarist. She was the daughter of H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908 ...
becomes Deputy Leader of the party
*February 1950:
Jo Grimond
Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond, (; 29 July 1913 – 24 October 1993), known as Jo Grimond, was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party for eleven years from 1956 to 1967 and again briefly on an interim basis in 1976.
Grimond was a lo ...
replaces Frank Byers as Chief Whip
*1952:
Arthur Holt becomes Parliamentary Chairman of the Liberal Party.
*1955: Arthur Holt replaced as Parliamentary Chairman of the Liberal Party.
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