UK GOVERNMENT OFFICE

Defence Minister in the Government of the United Kingdom.

Position active 1940 to 1964, became UK Secretary of State for Defence.

1940	1945	Winston Churchill
1945	1946	Clement Attlee
1946	1950	A. V. Alexander
1950	1951	Manny Shinwell
1951	1952	Winston Churchill
1952	1954	Earl Alexander of Tunis
1954	1955	Harold Macmillan
1955	1955	Selwyn Lloyd
1955	1956	Walter Monckton
1956	1957	Antony Head
1957	1959	Duncan Sandys
1959	1962	Harold Watkinson
1962	1964	Peter Thorneycroft

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