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George Henry Roberts

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Monarch
  
George V

Preceded by
  
John Robert Clynes


Preceded by
  
John Hodge

Name
  
George Roberts

Monarch
  
George V

Role
  
Politician

George Henry Roberts

Died
  
April 25, 1928, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom

Succeeded by
  
Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan

Prime Minister
  
David Lloyd George

Prime Minister
  
David Lloyd George

George Henry Roberts PC (27 July 1868 – 25 April 1928) was a Labour Party politician who switched parties twice.

Biography

He as born on 27 July 1868.

At the 1906 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich. He was a minister in the Lloyd George Coalition Government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1916 to 1917, Minister of Labour from 1917 to 1919, and Minister of Food Control from 1919 to 1920. He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor in 1917.

Roberts stood in 1918 as a Coalition Labour candidate, opposed by the official Labour Party candidate. After leaving office in 1920, Roberts returned as a director to the firm he had left as works manager upon entering Parliament in 1906. He sat on the back-benches and as a Lloyd George Liberal retained his seat in the 1922 election but lost it as the Conservative candidate in 1923. Roberts spent the rest of his life in the sugar beet industry.

He died on 25 April 1928.

References

George Henry Roberts Wikipedia