John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter

John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter ( June 2, 1908 , † July 11, 1998 ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party .

Life

Boyd-Carpenter was the son of the House of Commons Archibald Boyd-Carpenter , who was at times also Paymaster General , and grandson of William Boyd Carpenter , a clergyman of the Church of England and long-time bishop of the Diocese of Ripon.

After visiting the Stowe School, he studied history at Balliol College of University of Oxford , where he was president of the Oxford Union in 1930, and acquired in 1931 a Bachelor of Arts (BA History) and a degree in economics . After studying with a scholarship of Law at the Bar Association of Stowe School and worked as a lawyer after the approval in 1933 Lawyer operates.

Boyd-Carpenter did his military service in the Scots Guards of the British Army during World War II and was most recently promoted to major .

As a candidate for the Conservative Party, he was elected for the first time as a member of the House of Commons in the general election of July 5, 1945 , and represented the constituency of Kingston upon Thames until he resigned and was replaced by Norman Lamont on March 31, 1972 .

After the Conservatives won the general election on October 25, 1951 , he was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury , before being appointed Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1954 during a cabinet reshuffle .

He was then appointed Minister for Pensions and National Insurance by Churchill's successor, Anthony Eden, in 1955 and held this post under Harold Macmillan , Eden's successor as Prime Minister, until 1962. Most recently, Boyd-Carpenter was home during the terms of MacMillan and Alec Douglas between 1962 and 1964 Paymaster General and also Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

After retiring from the House he became a Life Peer with the title Baron Boyd-Carpenter , of Crux Easton in the County of Southampton, in the nobility appointed and belonged until his death in the House of Lords as a member. At the same time he became the first chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

Publications

• About bureaucracy: some facts and ideas for discussion groups , London 1949
• The Conservative case , London 1950
• Way of life: the memoirs of John Boyd-Carpenter , Autobiography , London 1980, ISBN 0-283-98630-1

Web links

• John Boyd-Carpenter at Hansard (English)
• Publications (openlibrary.org)
• ADDRESS BY LADY THATCHER AT THE MEMORIAL SERVICE OF LORD BOYD-CARPENTER (November 3, 1998, margaretthatcher.org)
• The Cabinet Papers (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
• Entry on theyworkforyou.com