William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate

William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate

William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate (1877 - 1960) was a British Liberal MP who later joined the Labour Party and served as Secretary of State for India in Ramsay MacDonald's second administration. In 1940 he was created Viscount Stansgate and in 1945 he became Secretary of State for Air under Clement Atlee. On his death he was succeeded as Lord Stansgate by his son Tony Benn.

He was son of the liberal politician John Williams Benn.

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