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| | Edwin Samuel Montagu, 1879-1924 |
 | | He was Undersecretary of State for India (1910-1914), Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1914), Chancellor of Lancaster (1915), Minister of Munitions (1916), and Secretary of State for India (1917-1922). |
 | | Edwin championed Indian independence from 1910-1914; in 1918 he toured India, wrote the Report on Indian Constitutional Reforms, and in 1919 he was responsible for the Government of India Act, which provided India with wide powers of self-government. |
 | | Edwin was a strong opponent of Zionism, and as a member of Lloyd George's administration was able to modify the text of the original Balfour Declaration (which, in the end, was instrumental in the creation of the state of Israel). |
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