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James Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter GBE, KCB, PC (15 March 1881 27 June 1975) was a British politician and academic.Salter was the son of John Henry Salter (1853 1930), head of Thames boating company Salters Steamers, and Mayor of Oxford in 1903. Educated at Oxford City High School and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was a scholar, he graduated with first class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1903.Salter joined the Civil Service in 1904 and worked in the transport department of the Admiralty, on national insurance, and as private secretary, being promoted to Assistant Secretary grade in…mehr

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James Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter GBE, KCB, PC (15 March 1881 27 June 1975) was a British politician and academic.Salter was the son of John Henry Salter (1853 1930), head of Thames boating company Salters Steamers, and Mayor of Oxford in 1903. Educated at Oxford City High School and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was a scholar, he graduated with first class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1903.Salter joined the Civil Service in 1904 and worked in the transport department of the Admiralty, on national insurance, and as private secretary, being promoted to Assistant Secretary grade in 1913. On the outbreak of war, he was recalled to the Admiralty, and became director of ship requisitioning. He was sent to Washington D.C. to press for a US programme of new construction. In 1917/18 he was a colleague of Jean Monnet in the Chartering Committee of the Allied Maritime Transport Council, and in 1919 appointed secretary of the Supreme Economic Council in Paris.