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Leslie Hore-Belisha

Isaac Leslie Belisha

Born: 7 September 1893, Hampstead, London

Died: 16 February 1957

1st Baron Hore-Belisha - 14 January 1954

Member of Privy Council - 6 June 1935

son of Jacob Isaac Belisha

son of Elizabeth Miriam Miers

step-son of Sir Charles Fraser Adair Hore

Clifton College, Bristol

Paris

Heidelberg University

St John's College, Oxford

Barrister

Financial Secretary to the Treasury	29 September 1932	29 June 1934
Minister for Transport	29 June 1934	28 May 1937
Secretary of State for War	28 May 1937	5 January 1940
Minister of National Insurance	1945	1945

15 November 1922	Plymouth Devonport	Liberal Party	8,538	34.51
6 December 1923	Plymouth Devonport	Liberal Party	12,269	45.69
29 October 1924	Plymouth Devonport	Liberal Party	11,115	39.70
30 May 1929	Plymouth Devonport	Liberal Party	15,233	45.68
27 October 1931	Plymouth Devonport	National Liberal Party	23,459	72.19
14 November 1935	Plymouth Devonport	National Liberal Party	20,852	68.13
5 July 1945	Plymouth Devonport	Nationalist	11,382	45.94
23 February 1950	Coventry South	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,885	41.21