Geoffrey Lloyd, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd

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Geoffrey William Lloyd, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd PC (born January 17, 1902 , † September 12, 1984 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was an intermittent member of the House of Commons for 38 years and held several ministerial posts and in 1974 as Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Member of the House of Commons, World War II and Minister of Information

Lloyd graduated after attending the Harrow School to study at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge , which he with a Master of Arts graduated (MA). During his student days he was also President of the Cambridge Union Society , the university's debating club , in 1925 . His fellow students at the time also included the future historian George Kitson Clark and the clergyman Charles Hugh Egerton Smyth , who was canon of Westminster Abbey between 1946 and 1956 .

Lloyd ran for the Conservative Party in the general election on October 29, 1924 in the constituency of South East Southwark and in the general election of May 30, 1929 in the Birmingham Ladywood constituency, each unsuccessfully for a member of the House of Commons, where he was only eleven in 1929 Votes were subject to. Having 1926-1929 Private Secretary to Minister of Aviation ( Secretary of State for Air ) Samuel Hoare was, he then served from 1929 to 1931 as a private secretary to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin , the last leader of the opposition ( Leader of the Opposition was).

In the general election of October 27, 1931 , Lloyd was elected in the Birmingham Ladywood constituency for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, where he was able to prevail more than clearly against Wilfred Whiteley , who won the constituency against him in 1929 for the Labor Party. This time he left Whiteley behind with a majority of 14,000 votes: While he received 23,057 votes (71.8 percent), Whiteley could only achieve 9057 votes (28.2 percent). He represented the constituency until his defeat in the general election on July 5, 1945 .

In November 1935 he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Home Office in the government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and held this position in the following government of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain until April 1939. Subsequently, he was first Secretary of State for Mines ( Parliamentary Secretary for Mines ) before he was then in the War Cabinet of Prime Minister Winston Churchill between May 1940 and June 1942 State Secretary for Petroleum ( Parliamentary Secretary for Petroleum ). As part of a reorganization of government responsibilities, he was from June 1942 to May 1945 Parliamentary Secretary for Petroleum in the Ministry of Fuel and Power ( Ministry of Fuel and Power ), which was then headed by Minister Gwilym Lloyd George . In 1943 he was also appointed Privy Councilor .

Most recently, he served from May 25 to July 26, 1945 as successor to Brendan Bracken as information minister ( Minister of Information ) in the cabinet Churchill.

Election defeat, BBC governor and re-election to the lower house

After fourteen years of parliamentary membership, Lloyd suffered a heavy loss to his Labor challenger Victor Yates in the general election on July 5, 1945 in the Birmingham Ladywood constituency . While Yates received 13,503 votes (55.9 percent), he only got 10,657 votes (44.1 percent).

After retiring, he served as one of the governors of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 1946 and 1949 .

In the subsequent general election on February 23, 1950 , Lloyd was then re-elected as a member of the House of Commons in the Birmingham King's Norton constituency, where he represented this constituency until it was dissolved in the general election on May 26, 1955 .

Minister and Member of the House of Lords

After the conservative Tories won the general election on October 25, 1951 , Lloyd was appointed Minister for Fuels and Energy by Prime Minister Churchill in his second cabinet and held this position in the cabinet of Churchill's successor Anthony Eden until he was replaced by Aubrey Jones on December 20, 1955.

After the electoral district of Birmingham King's Norton was dissolved, he was re-elected member of the House of Commons in the general election on May 26, 1955 in the Sutton Coldfield constituency and represented this constituency as the successor to his fellow party member John Mellor until the general election on February 28, 1974 .

On September 17, 1957 Prime Minister Harold Macmillan appointed him to succeed Quintin McGarel Hogg as Minister of Education ( Minister of Education ) and kept this ministerial office until he was replaced on October 14, 1959 by David Eccles .

In the general election on February 28, 1974, Lloyd renounced after around 38 years of membership in the lower house, and was then replaced by his fellow party member Norman Fowler as a member of parliament in the constituency of Sutton Coldfield .

Shortly afterwards he was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated May 6, 1974 as a life peer with the title Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd , of Broomfield in Kent , and as such was a member of the House of Lords until his death. At the time of his death on September 12, 1984, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd served in the United Kingdom Parliament for approximately 48 years .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maurice Cowling: Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England , 2003, ISBN 0-521-54516-1 , p. 77
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 46285, HMSO, London, May 9, 1974, p. 5667 ( PDF , accessed October 16, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Lloyd, Geoffrey, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lloyd, Geoffrey William, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1902
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1984