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April 19, 2015
Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (born 1924)
Roy Mason
Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley,, was a British Labour Party politician and Cabinet minister who was Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the 1970s.
Secretary of State for Defence
The secretary of state for defence, also known as the defence secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Ministry of Defence. As a senior minister, the incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
April 19
April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 256 days remain until the end of the year.