HL Deb 21 May 1940 vol 116 c371
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DOMINION AFFAIRS (VISCOUNT CALDECOTE)

My Lords, I have to acquaint the House that His Majesty has been pleased to create the Right Honourable Sir John Allsebrook Simon, Lord Chancellor of that part of Great Britain and Ireland called Great Britain, a Peer of this Realm, by the title of Viscount Simon of Stackpole Elidor in the county of Pembroke.

His Lordship, having retired to robe—Was (in the usual manner) introduced.

The LORD CHANCELLOR then resumed his seat on the Woolsack.

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