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2 unusual facts about Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote


Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service

Among these offenses, according to Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip was "revealing the mysterious consonant by which the Chief of the Secret Service is known."

Minister for Co-ordination of Defence

Despite this, Baldwin's choice of the Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip provoked widespread astonishment.


Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote

Lord Caldecote married Lady Augusta Helen Elizabeth, daughter of David Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow and widow of Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing, in 1914.

The Right Reverend James Inskip was his elder half-brother and Sir John Hampden, Lord Mayor of Bristol, his younger brother.

Viscount Caldecote

It was created in 1939 for the lawyer and politician Sir Thomas Inskip so that he could sit in the House of Lords and serve as Lord Chancellor.


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