predecessor successor death_date birth_place constituency_mp party office primeminister birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
stafford colville oliver stanley isaac foot william wedgwood benn euan wallace cripps duff cooper malcolm macdonald john simon john office tom johnston ernest bevin harry crookshank james hoy david margesson abolished james arthur salter henry willink james henderson-stewart 16 february 1962 torquay , devon , united kingdom leith rugby national liberal liberal minister lancaster minister of health chairman of the national liberal party of secretary of state for scotland minister of labour secretary for aircraft mines production chancellor of the duchy of winston baldwin neville chamberlain ramsay macdonald churchill winston churchill winston churchill winston churchill stanley 27 august 1881 25 1940 14 may 1940 7 june 1935 30 september 1932 may 23 march 1927 6 december 1923 1945 11 november 1943 8 february 1941 ernest brown mp.jpg ernest brown -lrb- british politician -rrb-
 5 1945 8 february 1941 14 may 1940 18 june 1935 july 5 july 1945 29 october 1924 1945 25 may 1945 11 november 1943 ernest brown
ernest brown -lrb- british politician -rrb-

alfred ernest brown ch mc -lrb- 27 august 1881 -- 16 february 1962 -rrb- was a british politician who served as leader of the liberal nationals from 1940 until 1945 .
