Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory

Derick Heathcoat -Amory, 1st Viscount Amory KG, GCMG, PC ( born December 26, 1899 in Tiverton, Devon, England; † January 20, 1981 ) was a British politician.

Biography

Heathcoat -Amory was in 1945 elected as a Conservative Party MP for the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of his home town of Tiverton.

In 1951 he was appointed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill as Minister for pensions in the government. In a cabinet reshuffle, he was then from 1953 to 1954 Minister of State at the Board of Trade. Churchill's successor as Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, appointed him in 1955 to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. This office he retained also in the subsequent government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on 10 January 1957.

When in January 1958 Peter Thorneycroft resigned Heathcoat -Amory was his successor as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord High Treasurer. During his moderate politics at the top of the Treasury (Treasury), there were no significant changes in the economic strategy of the government Macmillan. In 1960 he resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was raised as Viscount Amory to the peerage. Successor as Chancellor of the Exchequer was Selwyn Lloyd.

1961 Heathcoat -Amory was appointed High Commissioner (High Commissioner) in Canada and held this office until 1963. In 1961 he was also awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( GCMG ).

Between 1965 and 1970, he was then governor of the Hudson 's Bay Company, the oldest registered company in Canada.

For his services he was eventually knighted in the Order of the Garter ( Knight of the Garter ) 1968. In 1972 he inherited from his brother the title of Baronet Heathcoat -Amory.

The Viscountswürde faded as Heathcoat -Amory died in 1981 without male offspring, while the baronetcy passed to his younger brother.