births
April 24, 1889
Stafford Cripps, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1952)
Stafford Cripps
Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and the head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the chancellor is a high-ranking member of the British Cabinet.