• Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith PC (26 January 1878 – 18 December 1941) was a British Liberal turned Labour politician who was briefly in the cabinet as President...
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    of this year, the following candidates had been selected: Labour; Hastings Lees-Smith Conservative; Gay Burdett Results compared to December 1910 election...
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    inequality and health in Britain, 1800–2000: a reader edited by George Davey Smith, Daniel Dorling, and Mary Shaw Emslie, Stuart; Hancock, Charles, eds. (30...
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  • Wedgwood Benn, Arthur Henderson, J. H. Thomas, William Jowitt, Hastings Lees-Smith, Earl Russell Conservative: Earl Peel, Marquess of Zetland, Samuel...
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    ISBN 9780521580809. Retrieved 19 December 2019. Sugarman, Daniel. "MP Hastings Bertrand Lees-Smith saved dozens of lives, but had no idea". The JC. The Jewish Chronicle...
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  • Henderson (1931) George Lansbury (1931–1935) Clement Attlee (1935–1955) Hastings Lees-Smith (1940–1941) – in opposition Frederick Pethick-Lawrence (1942) – in...
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  • Victoria Cross Hastings Keith (1915–2005), US congressman from Massachusetts Hastings Lees-Smith (1878–1941), English Member of Parliament Hastings Rashdall...
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    was reduced to a single-member seat, his former Liberal co-member Hastings Lees-Smith having sought election elsewhere and joined the Labour Party. He...
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    even if there is no actual opposition. The first acting leader was Hastings Lees-Smith, the MP for Keighley, who died in office on 18 December 1941. He...
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    1942 Monarch George VI Prime Minister Winston Churchill Preceded by Hastings Lees-Smith Succeeded by Arthur Greenwood Financial Secretary to the Treasury...
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