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1138: 383:. In 1915 Geddes was selected by Lloyd George and given the title of deputy director general of munitions supply, whereupon he left the NER. Made responsible for small arms production, he established rational goals for rifles, light and heavy machine guns, and production then soared, making many more automatic weapons than the army had requested. Shell production was also booming but these were not adequately getting filled with explosive, and so Geddes was made responsible for them in December 1916; within six months the number of filled shells increased tenfold to two million per week, and the filled shells piled up on French docks. Lloyd George, now Minister of War, persuaded Sir 50: 481:. The new ministry was given control over railways, roads, canals and docks, but was criticised in both houses of parliament for giving in to nationalisation and for its large size. In the autumn of 1921, the handing back of the railways to the companies after state control was being reviewed, which put the Ministry of Transport under further pressure. Geddes had neither taste nor aptitude for political infighting, and resigned in November 1921. 1703: 556: 348:, rising to car-tracer. When he abruptly returned home, his elder sister gave him a firm talking-to. Late in 1895 he was sent to India for a minor job in estate management, where he built light railways before moving to the Rohilkund and Kumaon railway; he became superintendent in 1901. Returning to England because of his wife's poor health, he joined the 352:(NER), in 1904 to become the NER's claims agent (a newly created position) and rose to be deputy chief goods manager in 1906, chief goods manager in 1907, and finally deputy general manager in 1911. His initial NER salary was £500 per year, and by the time that he left in 1915, had increased to £5,000 per year; and he received a 465:
which was ready just when the war ended. Jellicoe was replaced at the end of 1917. Convoys in home waters lost only 1.25 percent of their ships, and 2,084,000 American soldiers reached Europe; only 113 were lost to U-boats, despite the German Admiralty's boast that they would destroy them all. At
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naval correspondent, Sir Archibald Hurd, later wrote of Geddes and Lloyd George, "No men more ignorant of naval affairs were ever associated together than the Prime Minister and Geddes". Convoying was turning the tide. Geddes appointed the Belfast shipbuilder
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In 1921, Geddes chaired the Committee on National Expenditure which proposed heavy cuts in public expenditure to match falling national income, and the austerity policy became known as the
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war's end the world supply of shipping was larger than it had been at the outset, thanks to the growth of the Japanese and American merchant fleets. It was a great Allied victory.
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Lloyd George's evaluation was that Geddes was "... one of the most remarkable men which the State called to its aid ..." He left the Admiralty in January 1919 and was made a
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politician. With a background in railways, he served as head of Military Transportation on the Western Front, with the rank of major-general. He then served as
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When enacted, the public expenditure cuts depressed the economy further. Geddes resigned from the government and the Commons in 1922, becoming director of
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On 6 July 1917 Geddes, strongly recommended by Haig, returned to civilian life as First Lord of the Admiralty. To serve he had to be a member of the
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confessed to the War Cabinet that they were losing. Haig and Geddes breakfasted with Lloyd George to demand a new administration in the Admiralty.
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Geddes married Gwendolen, daughter of Reverend A. Stokes, in 1900. They had three sons, including Sir Reay Geddes, former chairman of the
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unleashed unrestricted attacks in February 1917. As the British merchant fleet was suffering, Lloyd George transferred Geddes to the
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between 1919 and 1921, in which position he was responsible for the deep public spending cuts known as the "
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Geddes, Baron, The forging of a family. London: Faber & Faber, 1952 p. 124, pp.201-205, pp.221-250.
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Lloyd George, David (1938). "The Ministry of Munitions: Establishment and Labour Problems".
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of £50,000 at the end of the war. He was briefly considered as a possible chairman of the
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in 1917. He was promoted to inspector general of transportation in all theatres of war.
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Geddes then spent 2½ years drifting between jobs like lumberjack and steelworker in the
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Geddes was one of the "men of push and go" brought into government service by
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when that was formed at the end of 1922, but the choice fell to
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as controller-general of merchant shipbuilding, and brought
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Index

The Right Honourable
GCB
GBE

First Lord of the Admiralty
George V
David Lloyd George
Sir Edward Carson
Walter Long
Minister of Transport
George V
David Lloyd George
The Viscount Peel
British India
British
Conservative
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Conservative
First Lord of the Admiralty
Minister of Transport
Geddes Axe
British India
Edinburgh
Scotland
Mona Chalmers Watson
Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes
Oxford Military College

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