William Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baron Selsdon

The Right Honourable The Lord Selsdon KBE PC
Postmaster General
In office 4 November 1924 – 4 June 1929
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	Stanley Baldwin
Preceded by	Vernon Hartshorn
Succeeded by	Hastings Lees-Smith
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade
In office 1 April 1921 – 19 October 1922
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George
Preceded by	Philip Cunliffe-Lister
Succeeded by	The Viscount Wolmer
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food Control
In office 19 April 1920 – 1 April 1921
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George
Preceded by	Charles McCurdy
Succeeded by	Post abolished
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 14 January 1932 – 24 December 1938 Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by	Peerage created
Succeeded by	The 2nd Lord Selsdon
Member of Parliament for Croydon South
In office 6 December 1923 – 14 January 1932
Preceded by	Allan Macgregor Smith
Succeeded by	Herbert Williams
Member of Parliament for Glasgow Maryhill
In office 14 December 1918 – 26 October 1922
Preceded by	Constituency created
Succeeded by	John William Muir
Member of Parliament for North Down
In office 28 April 1910 – 25 November 1918
Preceded by	Thomas Lorimer Corbett
Succeeded by	Thomas Watters Brown
Member of Parliament for North West Lanarkshire
In office 8 February 1906 – 10 February 1910
Preceded by	Charles Mackinnon Douglas
Succeeded by	William Pringle
Personal details
Born	(1877-04-15)15 April 1877 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	24 December 1938(1938-12-24) (aged 61) London, England
Nationality	British
Political party	Scottish Unionist Irish Unionist Conservative
Spouse	Annie McEacharn
Children	Peter

William Lowson Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baron Selsdon KBE PC (15 April 1877 – 24 December 1938), known as Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, 2nd Baronet, from 1918 to 1932, was a Scottish politician who served as British Postmaster-General from 1924 till 1929.^[1]