John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter

The Right Honourable The Lord Boyd-Carpenter PC DL
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 16 July 1962 – 15 October 1964
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home
Chancellor	Reginald Maudling
Preceded by	Henry Brooke
Succeeded by	John Diamond
Paymaster General
In office 16 July 1962 – 15 October 1964
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
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
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
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Douglas Jay
Succeeded by	Henry Brooke
Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Thames
In office 30 October 1945 – 4 May 1972
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

Boyd-Carpenter 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

Boyd-Carpenter 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 (the young Margaret Thatcher served under him as Parliamentary Under-Secretary, her first ministerial job, from October 1961),^[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

Boyd-Carpenter 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

1. "Address by Lady Thatcher at the Memorial Service of Lord Boyd-Carpenter, 3 November 1998". Retrieved 17 January 2010.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• 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
  
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