The Rt. Hon. The Viscount
Halifax, K.G., G.C.S.I.
The speaker in this the last talk of this outstanding series became Lord President of the Council last month.
He has been Leader of the House of Lords since 1935 and Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 1933. As the Hon. E. F. Lindley Wood he represented the Ripon Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Unionist interest from 1910 to 1925 when he was created first Baron Irwin of Kirby Underdale. He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies from 1921 to 1922, President of the Board of Education from October, 1922 to January, 1924, and again from 1932 to 1935, and Minister of Agriculture from October, 1924 to November, 1925. He was Viceroy of India from 1926 to 1931, and Secretary of State for War in 1935. He succeeded to the title of Viscount Halifax on the death of his father in 1934.