John Wilmot, 1st Baron Wilmot of Selmeston
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John Charles Wilmot, 1st Baron Wilmot of Selmeston PC (2 April 1895 – 22 July 1964) was a British Labour Party politician..
He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Fulham East at a by-election in 1933, but lost his seat the 1935 general election.
He returned to the House of Commons at another by-election, in 1939 as MP for Kennington. He was re-elected at the 1945 election for the Deptford constituency, before retiring from Parliament at the 1950 general election. He was then elevated to the peerage as Baron Wilmot of Selmeston; the title became extinct on his death in 1966.
In Clement Attlee's post-war government, he was Minister of Supply from 1945 to 1947, and was made a Privy Councillor in 1945.