Frederick Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers

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Frederick James Leathers, 1st Viscount Leathers CH PC (21 November 1883 – 19 March 1965) was a British industrialist and public servant.

He left school in 1898 at the age of 15 to work with Steamship Owners Coal Association (later merged with William Cory & Son), becoming managing director in 1916. He was concerned also with other companies dealing with coal or shipping services.

He served as an adviser to the Ministry of Shipping from 1914 to 1918 and 1940 to 1941, and as Minister of War Transport in 1941.^[1]

He attended the Casablanca, Washington, Quebec, and Cairo conferences in 1943. He negotiated the lend-lease of American ships to Britain. He also accompanied the Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences.

He later served as Minister for Coordination of Transport, Fuel and Power from 1951 to 1953. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Leathers, of Purfleet in the County of Essex, in 1941, and appointed a Companion of Honour in 1943. He was further honoured when he was made Viscount Leathers, of Purfleet in the County of Essex, in 1954.

References

↑ Churchill, Winston S. (1948). The Grand Alliance. Rosetta Books. ISBN 978-0-7953-0616-7.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Leathers

Political offices
Preceded by John Moore-Brabazon as Minister of Transport	Minister of War Transport 1941–1945	Succeeded by Alfred Barnes as Minister of Transport
New title	Minister for Coordination of Transport, Fuel and Power 1951–1953	Office abolished
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Viscount Leathers 1954–1965	Succeeded by Frederick Leathers
New creation	Baron Leathers 1941–1965	Succeeded by Frederick Leathers

Cabinet of Sir Winston Churchill (1951–1955)

Prime Minister First Lord of the Treasury	Sir Winston Churchill (1951–55)

Lord Chancellor	The Lord Simonds (1951–54) The Viscount Kilmuir (1954–55)

Lord President of the Council	The Lord Woolton (1951–52) The Marquess of Salisbury (1952–55)

Lord Privy Seal	The Marquess of Salisbury (1951–52) Harry Crookshank (1952–55)

Chancellor of the Exchequer	Rab Butler (1951–55)

Foreign Secretary	Sir Anthony Eden (1951–55)

Home Secretary Welsh Secretary	Sir David Maxwell Fyfe (1951–54) Gwilym Lloyd George (1954–55)

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries	Derick Heathcoat-Armory (1954–55)

Secretary of State for the Colonies	Oliver Lyttelton (1951–54) Alan Lennox-Boyd (1954–55)

Minister for Coordination of Transport, Fuel and Power	The Lord Leathers (1951–53)

Minister of Defence	Winston Churchill (1951–52) The Earl Alexander of Tunis (1952–54) Harold Macmillan (1954–55)

Minister of Education	Sir David Eccles (1954–55)

Minister of Health	Harry Crookshank (1951–52)

Ministry of Housing and Local Government	Harold Macmillan (1951–54) Duncan Sandys (1954–55)

Minister of Labour and National Service	Sir Walter Monckton (1951–55)

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	The Lord Woolton (1952–55)

Minister of Materials	The Lord Woolton (1953–55)

Paymaster General	The Lord Cherwell (1951–53)

Secretary of State for Scotland	James Stuart (1951–55)

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