John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter
The Right Honourable The Lord Boyd-Carpenter PC DL |
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Chief Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 16 July 1962 – 15 October 1964 |
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Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home |
Preceded by | Henry Brooke |
Succeeded by | John Diamond |
Paymaster General | |
In office 16 July 1962 – 15 October 1964 |
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Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home |
Preceded by | Henry Brooke |
Succeeded by | George Wigg |
Minister of Pensions and National Insurance | |
In office 20 December 1955 – 16 July 1962 |
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Prime Minister | Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan |
Preceded by | Osbert Peake |
Succeeded by | Niall Macpherson |
Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation | |
In office 28 July 1954 – 20 December 1955 |
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Prime Minister | Winston Churchill Anthony Eden |
Preceded by | Alan Lennox-Boyd |
Succeeded by | Harold Watkinson |
Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 30 October 1951 – 28 July 1954 |
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Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
Preceded by | Douglas Jay |
Succeeded by | Henry Brooke |
Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Thames |
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In office 30 October 1945 – 4 May 1972 |
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Preceded by | Percy Royds |
Succeeded by | Norman Lamont |
Personal details | |
Born | 2 June 1908 |
Died | 11 July 1998 (aged 90) |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Peggy, m.1937 |
Alma mater | Stowe School Balliol College, Oxford Middle Temple |
John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, PC, DL (2 June 1908 – 11 July 1998) was a British Conservative politician.
Early life
He was the son of Conservative politician Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter MP. He was educated at Stowe School, Buckinghamshire, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union in 1930. He graduated with a BA in History, and a Diploma in Economics in 1931. He was Harmsworth Law Scholar at the Middle Temple in 1933 and called to Bar the next year, and practised in the London and South-East Circuit.
War service
He joined the Scots Guards in 1940 and held various staff appointments, including with the Allied Military Government in Italy, retiring with the rank of Major.
Political career
He contested the Limehouse district for the London County Council in 1934. He was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Thames in 1945,[1] holding the seat until 1972.
He held ministerial office as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1951–54, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation from 1954-December 1955, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from December 1955-July 1962,[1] Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General from 1962-64. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1954.
Following the Conservative defeat in 1964,[1] he served as Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Housing, Local Government and Land, 1964–66, and as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee from 1964-70. He later held a number of Party and business appointments.
He was appointed a life peer on 1 May 1972, as Baron Boyd-Carpenter, of Crux Easton in the County of Southampton.
As the first Chairman of the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Boyd-Carpenter was in charge at the time of the collapse of the UK airline Court Line and their subsidiary Clarksons Travel Group in August 1974.
Family
He was married to Peggy in 1937.[1] Boyd-Carpenter's son, Thomas Boyd-Carpenter, was himself knighted following his military and public service careers. One of his two daughters, Sarah Hogg, Baroness Hogg, married Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham, and is a life peer in her own right.
References
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- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs [self-published source][better source needed]
- The Peerage entry A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe - Person Page - 14764 - John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter #147632, b. 2 June 1908, d. 11 July 1998.
- Burkes Peerage (S37) BP2003 volume 1, page 471. Citing:
Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Two entries;
1) Oxford Biography Index Number 101070217 http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101070217/John-Boyd-Carpenter
2) Who Was Who http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U177068
- Google Books entry A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964 By Cameron Hazlehurst, Sally Whitehead, Christine Woodland
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Boyd-Carpenter
- Portraits of John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter at the National Portrait Gallery, London See also.
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by
Sir Percy Royds
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Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Thames 1945–1972 |
Succeeded by Norman Lamont |
Political offices | ||
Preceded by | Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1951 - 1954 |
Succeeded by Henry Brooke |
Preceded by | Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation 1954 - 1955 |
Succeeded by Harold Watkinson |
Preceded by | Minister of Pensions and National Insurance 1955 - 1962 |
Succeeded by Niall Macpherson |
Preceded by | Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1962 - 1964 |
Succeeded by John Diamond |
Preceded by | Paymaster-General 1962 - 1964 |
Succeeded by George Wigg |
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