It was named after Leslie Hore-Belisha ( 1893 – 1957 ), the Minister of Transport who in 1934 added beacons to pedestrian crossings, marked by large metal studs in the road surface.

On 6 December 1937, as part of a purge by Hore-Belisha of senior officers, Gort was appointed to the Army Council, made a general and replaced Field Marshal Sir Cyril Deverell as Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

The post was abolished by Hore-Belisha, the Secretary of State for War, as he perceived it to be a block on production, transferring tank development responsibility to the Director General of Munitions Development.

Isaac Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha PC ( 7 September 1893 – 16 February 1957 ) was a British Liberal, then National Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP ) and Cabinet Minister.

Hore-Belisha was educated at Clifton College where he was in Polack's house.

In the 1922 general election, Hore-Belisha was an unsuccessful candidate for the Liberal Party in his birthplace constituency of Plymouth Devonport.

After the general election of that year, Hore-Belisha was appointed a junior minister at the Board of Trade.

Hore-Belisha was appointed Minister of Transport in 1934 coming to public prominence at a time when motoring was becoming available to the masses.

Hore-Belisha rewrote the Highway Code and was responsible for the introduction of two innovations which led to a dramatic drop in road accidents: the driving test and the Belisha beacon, named after him by the public.

With the knowledge that war was looming, Hore-Belisha sought permission to introduce conscription in 1938 but was rebuffed by Chamberlain, who would not agree to increased defence spending.

Senior Conservatives believed that Hore-Belisha was more concerned about the fate of Jewish people abroad than of Britain itself, such that he wanted Britain to wage war against Germany with the sole intention of protecting European Jews.

In January 1940, Hore-Belisha was dismissed from the War Office in a shock move that many did not understand at the time.

Hore-Belisha was unpopular amongst his fellow ministers, with meetings of the War Cabinet said to be regularly tense and loud.

Hore-Belisha attempted to rebuild his career under Winston Churchill but his re-appointment was blocked by a combination of his wounded intransigence and continued Conservative prejudice.

In the 1945 general election, Hore-Belisha, still standing as a National Independent, was defeated in Devonport by the Labour candidate, Michael Foot.

In 1954 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Hore-Belisha, of Devonport in the County of Devon.

In April 1940, Time Magazine reported that Hore-Belisha had married French actress Jacqueline Delubac, but that was denied by Hore-Belisha.

In this vision, Hore-Belisha was mentioned as one of several prominent Britons delivering " brilliant pacific speeches " which " echo throughout Europe " but fail to end the war.

* Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha ( 1893 – 1957 ) was born in Devonport.

Leslie Hore-Belisha, the then Minister of War, wished to introduce a limited form of conscription, an unheard of thing in peacetime.

* 1893 – Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, English politician ( d. 1957 )

The British statesman Leslie Hore-Belisha died of a cerebral haemorrhage while making a speech at the Reims hôtel de ville ( city hall ) in February 1957.

* Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha-while Minister of Transport, 1934-7, he introduced the driving test and the Belisha Beacon ; then Secretary of State for War, 1937 – 40

In the United Kingdom the crossing is marked with Belisha beacons, flashing amber globes on black and white posts on each side of the road, named after Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Minister of Transport, who introduced them in 1934.

In September 1937, he became Military Secretary to the War Minister, Leslie Hore-Belisha, with the temporary rank of lieutenant-general.

During this time he played a part in a political scandal, the Pillbox affair, that led to the dismissal of British War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha.

In 1934 Leslie Hore-Belisha became Transport Minister and initiated a number of road safety schemes in response the rising number of Road Casualties in Great Britain ; these included the zebra crossing and a proposal to introduce of play streets to the UK, which had been successfully operating in the USA.

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Several government MPs either voted against the proposals or abstained, including Cabinet Ministers such as Leslie Hore-Belisha, as well as Winston Churchill.

* Leslie Hore-Belisha 1932-34

In January 1940 Stanley was appointed Secretary of State for War after the previous incumbent, Leslie Hore-Belisha, had been sacked after falling out with the leading officers.

This proved controversial as many believed that the Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha, had a stronger claim to be the next Liberal National to enter the Cabinet, though as unemployment was one of the government's biggest problems, many others felt that Brown's appointment to the job was not one to envy.

In 1954 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Hore-Belisha, of Devonport in the County of Devon.

Devonport has had a number of prominent MPs, including Leslie Hore-Belisha, Michael Foot ( who began his Commons career in the seat ), and the former SDP leader David Owen ( Who was its longest-served MP ).

Initially, he considered Hore-Belisha for the post of Minister of Information, but decided against this when the Foreign Office raised concerns about the propaganda effect of having a Jewish politician in this position.

Pressure mounted on Chamberlain to remove Hore-Belisha from the Cabinet at the earliest opportunity.

Undeterred, Hore-Belisha sought to reshape the armed forces with modernising programmes similar to those he had implemented at the Ministry of Transport, improving pay, pensions and promotion prospects for working-class soldiers, whose advancement could often be blocked by nepotism amongst the upper classes.