Archibald Boyd-Carpenter

Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter (born March 26, 1873 - May 27, 1937 ) was a British politician of the Liberal Unionists or the Conservative Party , who was intermittently a member of the House of Commons between 1918 and 1937 and held office between 1923 and 1924 of the Paymaster General .

Life

Officer and Member of the House of Commons

Boyd-Carpenter was the second son of the clergyman William Boyd Carpenter , who was Bishop of Ripon between 1884 and 1911 and Clerk of the Closet to Kings Edward VII and George V from 1903 until his death , and his wife Harriet Charlotte Peers.

After attending the renowned Harrow School , he graduated from Balliol College at the University of Oxford . He then took up his military service in the Highland Light Infantry and took part in both the Second Boer War and the First World War between 1899 and 1902 and was last promoted to major .

In the first general election after the First World War, Boyd-Carpenter was elected as a Unionist candidate for the first time to a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Bradford North until his defeat in the elections of December 6, 1923 . He was between November 1922 and March 1923 Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Labor (Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Labor) and then from March to May 1923 Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Financial Secretary to the Treasury ) during the tenure of Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law .

Paymaster General and re-elections to the House of Commons

Although he was no longer a member of the House of Commons, Boyd-Carpenter served from May 22, 1923 to January 23, 1924 in the government of Andrew Bonar Law's successor as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin as Paymaster General and as Financial Secretary of the Admiralty (Financial Secretary to the Admiralty) .

In the general election of October 24, 1924 , he was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons for the Unionists, where he represented the constituency of Coventry before losing this mandate again in the May 30, 1929 elections. For his services he was knighted bachelor in 1926 and has since had the addition of "Sir". Most recently he was re-elected as a member of the House of Commons in the elections of October 27, 1931 , where he represented the constituency of Chertsey until his death .

His marriage to A. Dugdale had a son and a daughter. His son John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter was also a politician of the Conservative Party, who was a member of the House of Commons between 1945 and 1972 and was several times a minister.After his retirement as Baron Boyd-Carpenter, he was raised to life peer and thereby became a member of the House of Lords.

Web links

• Archibald Boyd-Carpenter at Hansard (English)
• Sir Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.