John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin
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Colonel John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st Baron Llewellin, C.B.E., M.C., M.P. (February 6, 1893 - January 24, 1957) was a British army officer and minister in Winston Churchill's war government.
Member of Parliament for Uxbridge in Middlesex, he later sat in the House of Lords as 1st Baron Llewellin of Upton.
Serving as President of the Board of Trade for two weeks in 1942 he subsequently became Minister of Aircraft Production in which capacity he served on the combined policy committee set up by the British and United States governments under the Quebec Agreement of 1943 to oversee the construction of the atomic bomb.
In December 1943 his seat on the committee was assumed by Sir Ronald Campbell and Llewellin became Minister for Food, the position he held until the Churchill government fell to the Labour party of Clement Attlee in July 1945.
After the war he was Governor General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (modern Zimbabwe and Malawi respectively) between 1953 and his death in January 1957.
| Preceded by: Sir Andrew Duncan | President of the Board of Trade 1942 | Followed by: Hugh Dalton |
| Preceded by: John Moore-Brabazon | Minister of Aircraft Production 1942 | Followed by: Sir Stafford Cripps |
| Preceded by: The Lord Woolton | Minister of Food 1943-1945 | Followed by: Sir B. Smith |