Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence was a British Labour politician who campaigned for women's suffrage.
Lord Pethick-Lawrence at 10 Downing Street
Lord Pethick-Lawrence with Gandhi in 1946
Pethick-Lawrence and his wife Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence in 1925
Secretary of State for India
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His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, known for short as the India secretary or the Indian secretary, was the secretary of state with responsibility for the India Office in Whitehall t
Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence
…government. In 1945 Pethick-Lawrence was elevated to the peerage as Baron Pethick-Lawrence, of Peaslake in the County of Surrey. From 1945 to 1947 he was Secretary of State for India and Burma, with a seat in the cabinet, and was involved in the negotiations that led to India's independence in 1947. Prime Minister Clement Attlee, however…
The ceremonial seat of the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and subsequently that of the Secretary of State for India
The 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Secretary of State for India from 1905 to 1910 and again briefly, as acting Secretary, in 1911
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