James Ramsden was the last person to hold which political office in the UK, which was abolished in 1964 under Alec Douglas Hume's premiership?
James Ramsden (politician) Ramsden was appointed Minister of State for the Army at the Ministry of Defence, a post he held until the Home government fell in October 1964. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1963. Ramsden was interviewed in 2012 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project. Ramsden married Juliet Ponsonby, daughter of Conservative politician Charles Ponsonby. Their youngest child was the artist Charlotte Cheverton. James Ramsden (politician) James Edward Ramsden (born 1 November 1923) is a British Conservative politician. He was the last person to hold the office of Secretary of State for War. Ramsden born
Alec Douglas-Home Alec Douglas-Home Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, (; 2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995) was a British statesman and Conservative Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1963 to October 1964. He is notable for being the most recent Prime Minister to hold office while being a member of the House of Lords, before renouncing his peerage and taking up a seat in the House of Commons for the remainder of his premiership. His reputation, however, rests more on his two spells as Britain's foreign secretary than on his brief