HL Deb 21 October 1947 vol 152 c81

The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House, That His Majesty had (by Commission) revoked certain Letters Patent and had appointed the Chairman of Committees for the time being, the Viscount Hutchinson (E. Donoughmore), the Lord Stanmore, the Earl of Drogheda, and any person who shall have been Chairman of Committees, the Lord Denman, the Earl of Granard, the Earl of Clarendon, the Viscount Hailsham, the Earl of Lucan, the Viscount Mersey, the Viscount Sankey, the Viscount Maugham, the Lord Templemore, the Viscount Simon, the Viscount Addison, the Lord Hare (E. Listowel), the Viscount Jowitt, the Earl Fortescue, the Lord Ammon, the Viscount Wimborne, the Lord Teynham and the Lord Holden to be Speakers of the House in the absence of the Lord Chancellor. The said Commission was read.