William Sutherland (Liberal politician)

The Right Honourable Sir William Sutherland KCB
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 7 April – 19 October 1922
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George
Preceded by	The Viscount Peel
Succeeded by	The Marquess of Salisbury
Personal details
Born	4 March 1880
Died	19 September 1949 (aged 69)
Alma mater	Glasgow University

Sir William Sutherland, KCB, PC (4 March 1880 – 19 September 1949) was a Scottish civil servant, Liberal Party politician and colliery owner. He was closely associated with Prime Minister David Lloyd George serving as his private and press secretary and later as his Parliamentary Private Secretary. He was one of Lloyd George's go-betweens in the sale of honours for the Lloyd George Fund. In his dealings with the press he would certainly have been labelled a spin doctor if that phrase had had currency in the early twentieth century, indeed he has recently been described as "the first of the modern spin doctors".^[1]