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The Right HonourableJohn Burns Hynd
Minister of Pensions
In office 17 April 1947 – 7 October 1947
Monarch	George VI
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	Wilfred Paling
Succeeded by	George Buchanan
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office 4 August 1945 – 17 April 1947
Monarch	George VI
Prime Minister	Clement Attlee
Preceded by	James Arthur Salter
Succeeded by	The Lord Pakenham
Member of Parliament for Sheffield Attercliffe
In office 21 February 1944 – 29 May 1970
Preceded by	Cecil Henry Wilson
Succeeded by	Patrick Duffy

John Burns Hynd (4 April 1902 – 8 November 1971) was a British Labour Party politician.

Educated at St Ninian's Episcopal School and Caledonian Road School, Perth, he left school at 14 and became a Railway Clerk in the District Office of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Perth, where he worked until 1925. He then became a Trade Union Clerk with the National Union of Railwaymen until 1944.

Hynd was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Attercliffe at a by-election in 1944, holding the seat until 1970. He held office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and Minister for Germany and Austria, 1945–1947, and as Minister of Pensions during 1947.

He was a Member of the General Medical Council from 1950 to 1955. He was Chairman of the Anglo-German and Anglo-Latin American Parliamentary Groups. He was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit with Star (West German Republic) in 1958, the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and Great Golden Cross of Honour with Star (Austria). He died in Enfield aged 69.

References

• The Times House of Commons 1945. 1945.
• The Times House of Commons 1950. 1950.
• The Times House of Commons 1955. 1955.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Burns Hynd
• Newspaper clippings about John Hynd in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
• The Papers of John Burns Hynd held at the Churchill Archives Centre

v t e Secretaries of state for work and pensions of the United Kingdom
Ministers of Pensions	Barnes Hodge Worthington-Evans Macpherson Tryon Roberts Tryon Roberts Tryon Hudson Ramsbotham Womersley Paling Hynd Buchanan Marquand Isaacs Heathcoat-Amory
Ministers of Social Insurance/National Insurance	Jowitt Hore-Belisha Griffiths Summerskill Peake
Ministers of Pensions and National Insurance	Peake Boyd-Carpenter Macpherson Wood Herbison
Ministers of Social Security	Herbison Hart
Secretaries of State for Social Services	Crossman Joseph Castle Ennals Jenkin Fowler Moore
Secretaries of State for Social Security	Moore Newton Lilley Harman Darling
Secretaries of State for Work and Pensions	Darling A. Smith Johnson Blunkett Hutton Hain Purnell Cooper Duncan Smith Crabb Green Gauke McVey Rudd Coffey C. Smith Stride

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