Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory

Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory KG GCMG TD PC DL (born December 26, 1899 in Tiverton , Devon , England , † January 20, 1981 ibid) was a British politician .

biography

He was the second of four sons of Sir Ian Heathcoat-Amory, 2nd Baronet (1865–1931) and Alexandra Seymour (around 1865–1942). He attended Eton College and studied at Christ Church College of Oxford University .

He was elected in 1945 as a member of the Conservative Party to the House of Commons , in which he represented the constituency of his hometown of Tiverton.

In 1951 he was appointed Minister for Pensions by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in his government. As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he was then Minister of State on the Board of Trade from 1953 to 1954 . Churchill's successor as Prime Minister, Anthony Eden , appointed him Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1955. He also retained this office in the subsequent government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan from January 10, 1957.

When Peter Thorneycroft resigned in January 1958 , Heathcoat-Amory succeeded him as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord High Treasurer . During his moderate politics at the head of the Treasury ( Treasury ), there were no significant changes in the economic strategy of the Government Macmillan. In 1960 he resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was raised to the nobility as Viscount Amory , of Tiverton in the County of Devon, and thereby became a member of the House of Lords . Selwyn Lloyd succeeded him as Chancellor of the Exchequer .

In 1961, Heathcoat-Amory was appointed High Commissioner in Canada and held that office until 1963. In 1961 he was also awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG).

Between 1965 and 1970 he was governor of the Hudson's Bay Company , Canada's oldest registered company.

In recognition of his services, he was finally accepted into the Order of the Garter in 1968 as a Knight Companion . In 1972 he inherited from his older brother John (1894-1972) the title of 4th Baronet , of Knightshayes Court in the County of Devon, who in 1874 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom his grandfather, the House of Commons John Heathcoat-Amory (1829-1914 ), was awarded.

The Viscount dignity expired when Heathcoat-Amory died unmarried and childless in 1981, while the baronet dignity passed to his younger brother William (1901-1982).

Web links

• rulers.org
• Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st and last Viscount Amory on thepeerage.com

predecessor	title	successor
New title created	Viscount Amory 1960-1981	Title expired
John Heathcoat-Amory	Baronet, of Knightshayes Court 1972-1981	William Heathcoat-Amory