The Assistant Postmaster General is a defunct junior ministerial position in the United Kingdom Government.
The title of
Postmaster General
A Postmaster General, in Anglosphere countries, is the chief executive officer of the postal service of that country, a ministerial office responsible for overseeing all other postmasters. The practice of having a government official responsibl ...
was abolished under the
Post Office Act 1969. A new public authority governed by a chairman was established under the name of the "Post Office".
The position of "Postmaster General" was replaced with
Minister of Posts and Telecommunications and that of Assistant Postmaster General was replaced by a
Parliamentary Secretary post.
Assistant Postmasters General
*January 1910:
Henry Norman
*1910:
Cecil Norton
Cecil may refer to:
People with the name
* Cecil (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name)
* Cecil (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
Places Canada
*Cecil, Alberta, ...
*1915:
Herbert Pike Pease
Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton, (7 May 1867 – 10 May 1949), was a British politician.
Biography
Pease was born into a wealthy family, the son of the politician Arthur Pease and his wife Mary Lecky née Pike. His brother was (Sir) A ...
*1922: vacant
*1924:
Viscount Wolmer
*1929:
Samuel Viant
*1931:
Graham White
*1932: Sir
Ernest Bennett
*1935: Sir
Walter Womersley
Sir Walter James Womersley, 1st Baronet (5 February 1878 – 15 March 1961) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Minister of Pensions during the Second World War.
He was born in Marley Street, Bradford, Yorkshire, the son ...
*1939:
William Mabane
*1939:
Charles Waterhouse
*1941:
Allan Chapman
*1942:
Robert Grimston
*1945:
William Anstruther-Gray
*1945:
Wilfrid Burke
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*1947:
Charles Rider Hobson
Charles Rider Hobson, Baron Hobson (18 February 1904 – 17 February 1966) was a British Labour politician and life peer.
Political career
Hobson was Member of Parliament for Wembley North from 1945 to 1950 and for Keighley from 1950 to 1959. ...
*1951:
Leonard David Gammans
Sir Leonard David Gammans, 1st Baronet (10 November 1895 – 8 February 1957), known as David Gammans, was a British Conservative Party politician.
Gammans was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School. He served with the Royal Field Artillery 1914� ...
*1955:
Cuthbert Alport
*1957:
Kenneth Thompson
*1959:
Mervyn Pike
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*1963:
Raymond Llewellyn Mawby
*1964:
Joseph Slater
Parliamentary Secretaries to the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications
*1969:
Joseph Slater
*1969:
Norman Pentland
Norman Pentland (9 September 1912 – 28 October 1972) was a British Labour Member of Parliament.
Pentland was educated at Fatfield County School, then in 1926 became a miner, based at the Harraton Colliery. In 1949, he was elected as a c ...
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