John Hynd Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
John Burns Hynd
Office:Minister of Pensions
Term Start:17 April 1947
Term End:7 October 1947
Primeminister:Clement Attlee
Predecessor:Wilfred Paling
Successor:George Buchanan
Office1:Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Primeminister1:Clement Attlee
Term Start1:4 August 1945
Term End1:17 April 1947
Monarch1:George VI
Predecessor1:James Arthur Salter
Successor1:The Lord Pakenham
Office13:Member of Parliament
for Sheffield Attercliffe
Term Start13:21 February 1944
Term End13:29 May 1970
Predecessor13:Cecil Henry Wilson
Successor13:Patrick Duffy

John Burns Hynd (4 April 1902 – 8 November 1971) was a British Labour Party politician.

Educated at St Ninian's Episcopal School and Caledonian Road School, Perth, he left school at 14 and became a Railway Clerk in the District Office of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Perth, where he worked until 1925. He then became a Trade Union Clerk with the National Union of Railwaymen until 1944.

Hynd was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Attercliffe at a by-election in 1944, holding the seat until 1970.He held office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Minister for Germany and Austria, 1945–1947, and as Minister of Pensions during 1947.

He was a Member of the General Medical Council from 1950 to 1955. He was Chairman of the Anglo-German and Anglo-Latin American Parliamentary Groups. He was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit with Star (West German Republic) in 1958, the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and Great Golden Cross of Honour with Star (Austria). He died in Enfield aged 69.

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