The Assistant Postmaster General is a defunct junior ministerial position in the United Kingdom Government. The title of

Postmaster General A Postmaster General, in Anglosphere countries, is the chief executive officer of the postal service of that country, a ministerial office responsible for overseeing all other postmasters. The practice of having a government official responsib ...

was abolished under the

Post Office Act 1969 The Post Office Act 1969 (c.48) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that changed the General Post Office from a department of state to a public corporation, known as the Post Office. It also abolished the office of Postmaster Gener ...

. A new public authority governed by a chairman was established under the name of the "Post Office". The position of "Postmaster General" was replaced with Minister of Posts and Telecommunications and that of Assistant Postmaster General was replaced by a Parliamentary Secretary post.

Assistant Postmasters General

*January 1910: Henry Norman *1910: Cecil Norton *1915: Herbert Pike Pease *1922: vacant *1924: Viscount Wolmer *1929: Samuel Viant *1931: Graham White *1932: Sir Ernest Bennett *1935: Sir Walter Womersley *1939:

William Mabane William Mabane, 1st Baron Mabane (12 January 1895 – 16 November 1969), known as Sir William Mabane between 1954 and 1962, was a British businessman and Liberal/National Liberal politician. Background and education The son of Joseph Greenwood ...

*1939: Charles Waterhouse *1941: Allan Chapman *1942: Robert Grimston *1945: William Anstruther-Gray *1945: Wilfrid Burke *1947: Charles Rider Hobson *1951: Leonard David Gammans *1955:

Cuthbert Alport Cuthbert James McCall Alport, Baron Alport, (22 March 1912 – 28 October 1998) was a Conservative Party politician, minister, and life peer. Early life "Cub" Alport was educated at Haileybury College, Haileybury, Hertfordshire, England, a ...

*1957: Kenneth Thompson *1959:

Mervyn Pike Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Baroness Pike, (16 September 1918 – 11 January 2004) was a British Conservative politician. The name by which she came to be known, Mervyn, had been the name of her father's best friend, who was to have been her ...

*1963: Raymond Llewellyn Mawby *1964: Joseph Slater

Parliamentary Secretaries to the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications

*1969: Joseph Slater *1969:

Norman Pentland Norman Pentland (9 September 1912 – 28 October 1972) was a British Labour Member of Parliament. Pentland was educated at Fatfield County School, then in 1926 became a miner, based at the Harraton Colliery. In 1949, he was elected as a c ...

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