COLONIAL OFFICE

Evening Post, Issue 126, 29 May 1936, Page 9

COLONIAL OFFICE

CABINET POST

MR. ORMSBY-GORE APPOINTED

26 YEAES IN HOUSE

(British Official Wireless.) (Received May 29, noon.) RUGBY, May 23. The King' has approved ihe appointment of Mr. W. G. A. OnnsbyGore as Colonial Secretary in place of Mr. J. H. Thomas, who resigned last Friday. Mr., W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, P.C., was born in 1885 and is-.the eldest son of Baron Harlech. He entered Parliament in 1910, two years after graduating at Oxford, and served in ths World War. Latterly he was Intelligence Officer in the Arab Bureau and Assistant Political .Officer in Palestine. In 1917 he became Parliamentary private secretary to Lord Milner.'and in 1917-18 was Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet. .He was principal representative of the Crown Colonies at the Imperial Economic Conference in 1923, Under-Secretary for the Colonies in 1022-24, and again in 1924-29. He was made Postmaster-General in 1931 and was First Commissioner of Works from 1931. He was created a Privy Councillor in 1927. His wife, Lady Beatrice Cecil, is a daughter of the Marquess of Salisbury. Mr. Ormsby-Gore has taken a prominent share in many great political and international post-war movements, , notably the peace settlements in Paris and the Indian reform scheme. He was the British official representative on the Permanent Mandates Commission, and when Under-Secretary for the Colonies he inaugurated a new era of colonial policy by his official visits to the West Indies and to East Africa, both of them resulting in valuable and stimulating reports.