John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter
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| In office 1 May 1972 – 11 July 1998 Life Peerage | |||||||||
| Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Thames | |||||||||
| In office 5 July 1945 – 31 March 1972 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | Percy Royds | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Norman Lamont | ||||||||
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| Born | John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter 2 June 1908 Knaresborough, England | ||||||||
| Died | 11 July 1998 (aged 90) | ||||||||
| Political party | Conservative | ||||||||
| Spouse |
Margaret Hall (m. 1937) | ||||||||
| Children | 3 | ||||||||
| Alma mater | Stowe School Balliol College, Oxford Middle Temple | ||||||||
John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter,
Early life
Boyd-Carpenter was born in Knaresborough in June 1908.[1] He was the only son of Conservative politician Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter MP and his wife Annie Dugdale. He was educated at Stowe School, Buckinghamshire, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union in 1930.[2] 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.[3]
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.[2]
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,[4] holding the seat until 1972, when he was raised to the peerage.
He held ministerial office as
When Alec Douglas-Home became Prime Minister in October 1963, he initially promised Boyd-Carpenter the job of Leader of the House of Commons, but in the end the job went to Selwyn Lloyd who was returning to government from the backbenches.[6] In 1971, Lloyd was elected Speaker of the House, another job that Boyd-Carpenter had desired; The Times said his failure to become speaker was a "major disappointment" of his political career.[2]
Following the Conservative defeat in 1964,[4] 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 to 1970. 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.[7][8] His successor at the ensuing byelection was Norman Lamont, the future Chancellor of the Exchequer under John Major.[9]
As the first Chairman of the UK's 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.
Personal life
In 1937, Boyd-Carpenter married Margaret ("Peggy") Mary, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel George Leslie Hall,
Boyd-Carpenter died on 11 July 1998, at the age of 90.[2]
Arms
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References
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
- ^ a b c d e f "Lord Boyd-Carpenter". The Times. 14 July 1998. p. 21.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70217. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c d "Address by Lady Thatcher at the Memorial Service of Lord Boyd-Carpenter, 3 November 1998". Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
- ^ "No. 40053". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1953. p. 1.
- ^ Thorpe 1989, p381-2
- ^ "No. 45663". The London Gazette. 4 May 1972. p. 5315.
- ^ "No. 19094". The Edinburgh Gazette. 5 May 1972. p. 399.
- ^ "No. 45668". The London Gazette. 11 May 1972. p. 5627.
- ^ a b Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 471
- ^ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, ed. Patrick W. Montague, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 180
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
- 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
- ISBN 978-0-224-02828-8.
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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