Background
Monckton, Sir Walter Turner was born on January 17, 1891 in Plaxtol, Kent, England. Son of F. W. and Dora Constance (Golding) Monckton.
Monckton, Sir Walter Turner was born on January 17, 1891 in Plaxtol, Kent, England. Son of F. W. and Dora Constance (Golding) Monckton.
Student Harrow, 1904-1910, Balliol College, Oxford, 1910-1914.
; children—Gilbert (Army 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards), Valerie (wife of Sir Basil Goulding). Married second Bridget Helen Ruthven, 1947. Called to bar, Inner Temple, 1919.
Recorder Hythe, 1930-1937. King’s counsel, 1930. Attorney general to Prince of Wales, 1932-1936, to Duchy of Cornwall, 1936-1947, 48-51.
Standing counsel University of Oxford, 1938-1951. Director-general Press and Censorship Bureau, 1939-1940, Ministry of Information, 1940-1941. Under secretary of state Foreign Affairs, 1940.
Director-general British Propaganda and Information Services, Cairo, Egypt, 1941-1942. Solicitor-general Churchill’s Caretaker Government, 1945. Also United Kingdom delegate Allied Reparation Commission, Moscow, Russia.
Conservative member British Parliament for Bristol W., February, 1951. Minister of Labour and National Service, privy councillor since 1951. Chairman Board of Governors St. George’s Hospital (London, England.), 1945-1951.
President Oxford Union Society, 1913.
Served with Royal West. Club: Brooks’s (London).
Married Mary Colyer-Fergusson, 1914 (divorced 1947).; married second Bridget Helen Ruthven, 1947. Children: Gilbert (Army 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards), Valerie (wife of Sir Basil Goulding).