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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p>The <b>Assistant Postmaster General</b> is a defunct junior ministerial position in the United Kingdom Government.
</p><p>The title of <a href="Postmaster_General_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Postmaster General of the United Kingdom">Postmaster General</a> was abolished under the <a href="Post_Office_Act_1969" title="Post Office Act 1969">Post Office Act 1969</a>. A new public authority governed by a chairman was established under the name of the "Post Office".
The position of "Postmaster General" was replaced with <a href="Ministry_of_Posts_and_Telecommunications_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (United Kingdom)">Minister of Posts and Telecommunications</a> and that of Assistant Postmaster General was replaced by a <a href="Parliamentary_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary Secretary">Parliamentary Secretary</a> post.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Assistant_Postmasters_General">Assistant Postmasters General</h2></div>
<ul><li>January 1910: <a href="Sir_Henry_Norman%2C_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet">Henry Norman</a></li>
<li>1910: <a href="Cecil_Norton%2C_1st_Baron_Rathcreedan" title="Cecil Norton, 1st Baron Rathcreedan">Cecil Norton</a></li>
<li>1915: <a href="Herbert_Pike_Pease%2C_1st_Baron_Daryngton" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbert Pike Pease, 1st Baron Daryngton">Herbert Pike Pease</a></li>
<li>1922: vacant</li>
<li>1924: <a href="Roundell_Palmer%2C_3rd_Earl_of_Selborne" title="Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne">Viscount Wolmer</a></li>
<li>1929: <a href="Samuel_Viant" title="Samuel Viant">Samuel Viant</a></li>
<li>1931: <a href="Graham_White_(politician)" title="Graham White (politician)">Graham White</a></li>
<li>1932: Sir <a href="Ernest_Nathaniel_Bennett" class="mw-redirect" title="Ernest Nathaniel Bennett">Ernest Bennett</a></li>
<li>1935: Sir <a href="Walter_Womersley" title="Walter Womersley">Walter Womersley</a></li>
<li>1939: <a href="William_Mabane" class="mw-redirect" title="William Mabane">William Mabane</a></li>
<li>1939: <a href="Charles_Waterhouse_(British_politician)" title="Charles Waterhouse (British politician)">Charles Waterhouse</a></li>
<li>1941: <a href="Allan_Chapman_(politician)" title="Allan Chapman (politician)">Allan Chapman</a></li>
<li>1942: <a href="Robert_Grimston%2C_1st_Baron_Grimston_of_Westbury" title="Robert Grimston, 1st Baron Grimston of Westbury">Robert Grimston</a></li>
<li>1945: <a href="William_Anstruther-Gray%2C_Baron_Kilmany" title="William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany">William Anstruther-Gray</a></li>
<li>1945: <a href="Wilfrid_Burke" title="Wilfrid Burke">Wilfrid Burke</a></li>
<li>1947: <a href="Charles_Rider_Hobson" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Rider Hobson">Charles Rider Hobson</a></li>
<li>1951: <a href="Leonard_David_Gammans" class="mw-redirect" title="Leonard David Gammans">Leonard David Gammans</a></li>
<li>1955: <a href="Cuthbert_Alport%2C_Baron_Alport" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport">Cuthbert Alport</a></li>
<li>1957: <a href="Sir_Kenneth_Thompson%2C_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Kenneth Thompson, 1st Baronet">Kenneth Thompson</a></li>
<li>1959: <a href="Mervyn_Pike" title="Mervyn Pike">Mervyn Pike</a></li>
<li>1963: <a href="Ray_Mawby" title="Ray Mawby">Raymond Llewellyn Mawby</a></li>
<li>1964: <a href="Joseph_Slater%2C_Baron_Slater" title="Joseph Slater, Baron Slater">Joseph Slater</a></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Parliamentary_Secretaries_to_the_Minister_of_Posts_and_Telecommunications">Parliamentary Secretaries to the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications</h2></div>
<ul><li>1969: <a href="Joseph_Slater%2C_Baron_Slater" title="Joseph Slater, Baron Slater">Joseph Slater</a></li>
<li>1969: <a href="Norman_Pentland" title="Norman Pentland">Norman Pentland</a></li></ul></div><!--htdig_noindex--><div><div class="zim-footer">
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