David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles

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Lord Temporal
Hereditary peerage
13 July 1962 – 24 February 1999
Succeeded byThe 2nd Viscount Eccles
Member of Parliament
for Chippenham
In office
24 August 1943 – 13 July 1962
Preceded byVictor Cazalet
Succeeded byDaniel Awdry
Personal details
Born(1904-09-18)18 September 1904
Died24 February 1999(1999-02-24) (aged 94)
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
Spouses
Hon. Sybil Dawson
​
​
(m. 1929; died 1977)​
​
(m. 1984)​
Children
Selina Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne
Alma materNew College, Oxford
OccupationPolitician, businessman

David McAdam Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles

PC (18 September 1904 – 24 February 1999), was an English Conservative politician
.

Education and early career

Eccles was educated at

Second World War he worked for the Ministry of Economic Warfare from 1939 to 1940 and for the Ministry of Production from 1942 to 1943 and was Economic Adviser to the British ambassadors at Lisbon and Madrid
from 1940 to 1942.

Political career

Eccles was elected as

Minister of Education from 1954 to 1957 and again from 1959 to 1962 and as President of the Board of Trade from 1957 to 1959. Eccles was also President of the Board of Trade in January 1957.[1]

In 1962 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Eccles, of

Arnold Goodman over the funding of controversial plays and exhibitions and introduced mandatory admission charges at public museums and galleries. Lord Eccles was made a Doctor of Science (DSc) in 1966 by Loughborough University.[2] He also received an Honorary Science Doctorate from the University of Bath in 1972.[3]

Personal life

Eccles married, firstly, the Hon. Sybil Frances Dawson (1904–1977), daughter of Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn, on 1 October 1929. They had three children:

A collection of the couple's wartime letters were published under the title By Safe Hand: Letters of Sybil & David Eccles 1939-42 (Bodley Head, 1983).

Widowed in 1977, he married again, this time to book collector and philanthropist Mary Morley Crapo Hyde (1912–2003) on 26 September 1984.[4] He died in 1999 at the age of 94, at home of natural causes, leaving an estate of approximately £2.4 million.[5]

Styles and honours

  • Mr David Eccles (1904–1943)
  • Mr David Eccles MP (1943–1953)
  • Sir David Eccles KCVO MP (1953–1962)
  • The Rt. Hon. The Lord Eccles KCVO PC (1962–1964)
  • The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Eccles KCVO PC (1964–1984)
  • The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Eccles CH KCVO PC (1984–1999)
Coat of arms of David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles
Crest
A three-masted Ship sails furled pennons and flags flying Or between two Wings addorsed Sable
Escutcheon
Chevronny Argent and Sable per pale counterchanged two Torches erect Or enflamed proper
Supporters
On either side a Wolf Sable armed and langued Gules gorged with a Plain Collar attached thereto a Chain reflexed over the back and resting the interior hind paw on a Portcullis chained Or
Motto
Truth and Beauty[6]

Notes

  1. ^ List of Presidents/Secretaries of State (2007), Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, London, UK, viewed 8 May 2008, "Welcome to nginx". Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2008.
  2. ^ Honorary Graduates and University Medallists since 1966 (2008), Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK, viewed 29 April 2008, http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/publicity/degree_days/hon_grads_66to79.html
  3. ^ "Corporate Information". Archived from the original on 25 May 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
  4. ^ "Mary Hyde Is Wed to Viscount Eccles". The New York Times. 27 September 1984. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  5. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71965. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  6. ^ "Eccles, Viscount (UK, 1964)".

References

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Chippenham
1943–1962 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Paymaster General
1970–1973 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Minister for the Arts

1970–1973 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Viscount Eccles
1964–1999 		Succeeded by
John Dawson Eccles
Baron Eccles
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