John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter

The Lord Boyd-Carpenter
Photograph from 1927
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office
16 July 1962 – 15 October 1964
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan
Alec Douglas-Home
ChancellorReginald Maudling
Preceded byHenry Brooke
Succeeded byJohn Diamond
Ministerial offices 1951-64
Paymaster General
In office
16 July 1962 – 15 October 1964
Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan
Alec Douglas-Home
Preceded byHenry Brooke
Succeeded byGeorge Wigg
Minister of Pensions and National Insurance
In office
20 December 1955 – 16 July 1962
Prime MinisterAnthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Preceded byOsbert Peake
Succeeded byNiall Macpherson
Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation
In office
28 July 1954 – 20 December 1955
Prime MinisterWinston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Preceded byAlan Lennox-Boyd
Succeeded byHarold Watkinson
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office
30 October 1951 – 28 July 1954
Prime MinisterWinston Churchill
Preceded byDouglas Jay
Succeeded byHenry Brooke
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
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 byPercy Royds
Succeeded byNorman Lamont
Personal details
Born
John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter

2 June 1908 (1908-06-02)
Harrogate, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died11 July 1998(1998-07-11) (aged 90)
Crux Easton, Hampshire, England
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Margaret Hall
(m. 1937)
Children3
Alma materStowe 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. He was the Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Thames from 1945 to 1972, when he was made a life peer. He served in several ministerial roles throughout the Conservative governments of 1951 to 1964, and was Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General from 1962 to 1964.


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