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Major George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon, PC (15 May 1871 – 24 November 1940, Little Court, Sunningdale) was a British Conservative politician who served in a number of ministerial positions in the inter-war years. George Clement Tryon was son of Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon and Clementina Heathcote, daughter of Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baron Aveland. Educated at Eton College and Sandhurst, Tryon joined the Grenadier Guards in 1890, serving for sixteen years before retiring as Major.

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  • Major George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon, PC (15 May 1871 – 24 November 1940, Little Court, Sunningdale) was a British Conservative politician who served in a number of ministerial positions in the inter-war years. George Clement Tryon was son of Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon and Clementina Heathcote, daughter of Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baron Aveland. Educated at Eton College and Sandhurst, Tryon joined the Grenadier Guards in 1890, serving for sixteen years before retiring as Major.
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  • Neville Chamberlain
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  • 1940-05-14(xsd:date)
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  • Alfred Cooper Rawson 1922–1940
  • Charles Thomas-Stanford 1914–1922
  • John Edward Gordon 1911–1914
  • Walter Rice 1910–1911
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  • 1935(xsd:integer)
  • 1940(xsd:integer)
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  • Major George Clement Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon, PC (15 May 1871 – 24 November 1940, Little Court, Sunningdale) was a British Conservative politician who served in a number of ministerial positions in the inter-war years. George Clement Tryon was son of Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon and Clementina Heathcote, daughter of Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baron Aveland. Educated at Eton College and Sandhurst, Tryon joined the Grenadier Guards in 1890, serving for sixteen years before retiring as Major. Tryon was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for UK Parliament constituency in 1910, serving until 1940. He became Under-Secretary of Air in 1919 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions in 1920 and in 1922 became a Privy Counsellor. He served as Minister of Pensions himself 1922-24, 1924–29 and 1931–35 and was then appointed Postmaster General in 1935, serving until 1940. He was one of those to appear on the first day of BBC television broadcasts, 2 November 1936. In April 1940, Tryon was elevated to the peerage as 1st Baron Tryon and made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and First Commissioner of Works. However, he was replaced as Chancellor (by Lord Hankey) when Winston Churchill became Prime Minister in May, while retaining the First Commissionership; he relinquished that post the following October, a few weeks before his death. He married Averil Vivian, daughter of Colonel Sir Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea. They had two children, including Charles, 2nd Baron Tryon.
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