Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth
Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, of Salehurst in the County of Sussex 3rd Bt PC ( born August 31, 1923 in Kensington, London, † September 28, 1981 in Leeds, Yorkshire ) was a British politician of the Conservative Party, for twenty years a Member of the House of Commons was in 1970 due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as a life peer member of the House of Lords. Boyle coined as Education Minister (Minister of Education) between 1962 and 1964 significantly bildungspolische the attitude of the Tories in the early 1960s and was last from 1970 until his death in 1981, Vice- Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
Life
Family origin and the House deputy
Boyle was the son of Edward Boyle, the second Baronet in 1909 Boyle, of Ockham in Salehurst and 1915 Commissioner in Serbia was. He himself began after the visit of Eton College to study at Christ Church, University of Oxford and inherited after the death of his father on March 31, 1945 the title of 3rd Baronet Boyle, of Ockham in Salehurst. In 1949 he completed his studies with a Bachelor of Arts (BA).
After the death of his party colleague Harold Roberts on September 28, 1950 Boyle was a candidate of the Conservative Party elected in a by-election ( By-election ) in the constituency of Birmingham Handsworth on November 16, 1950 for the first time to the MPs in the House of Commons and represented that constituency in accordance with re-elections in the subsequent general election for almost twenty years until the election on 18 June 1970.
Junior Minister
After the electoral victory of the Conservatives in the general election on 25 October 1951, he was first Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Air Ministry and then in 1952 Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Defence. 1954 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Supply (Ministry of Supply), before he took over between the successor of Reginald Maudling in 1955 and his replacement by Derek Walker -Smith in 1956 to function as Secretary of Commerce ( Economic Secretary ) to the Treasury (HM Treasury) and thus the fifth highest governmental posts in this ministry. From his position as Secretary of Commerce, he joined as a representative of the liberal wing of the Tories in the fall of 1956 in protest because of the Suez Crisis back. However, two months later, he returned to the government and was 1957-1959 Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Education (Ministry of Education).
During this time, Boyle completed postgraduate studies at Christ Church, University of Oxford, which he finished in 1959 with a Master of Arts (MA). At the same time, he served in 1959 as President of the Oxford Union.
In 1959, he was the successor of Jocelyn Simon as Financial Secretary of the Treasury ( Financial Secretary of the Treasury ) and has held thus until his replacement by Anthony Barber 1962, the fourth highest office in the Treasury.
Minister of Education
On July 13, 1962 Boyle, who in 1962 also Privy Councillor has been (Minister of Education), was Prime Minister Harold Macmillan 's successor David Eccles as Minister of Education appointed and retained this post until he Minister on 1 April 1964, replaced by Quintin Hogg McGarel, which in turn was Minister of Education and Science ( Secretary of State for Education and Science). He himself was between 1 April and the end of the term of the new Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home on October 16, 1964 Minister of State in the Ministry of Education and Science and it one of the closest associates of Prime Hogg. During this time a decree was that school children should stay away from the classroom in the event of a nuclear attack on Britain.
His widely acclaimed work as Education Minister was marked by a humanistic pragmatism that kept the development of the personality as the most important concern of education. Under its education policy of the Conservative Party in the early 1960s formative influence the Tories changed their rigid defense of classical grammar schools towards a more pragmatic approach to the reorganization of the secondary education sector. On the other hand, finished his ministers time a twenty-year extension of the supply, but also the expectations of the formation.
After the electoral defeat of the Conservative Party in the general election on October 15, 1964 Boyle was appointed by the party leader Edward Heath in his shadow cabinet and took over the role as opposition spokesman on education ( Shadow Education Secretary ). He continued in this position until 1969 he announced his retirement from politics and was then succeeded by Margaret Thatcher.
For his services in each case an honorary Doctor of Laws ( Hon. LL.D. ), he was awarded in 1965 by the University of Leeds and University of Southampton. Another honorary doctor of the law, he got in 1968 from the University of Bath.
Vice- Chancellor of the University of Leeds and the House of Lords member
After retiring from the House of Boyle in 1970 successor of Roger Bentham Stevens as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds and held that post until his death. At the same time he was between 1970 and his death in 1981, one of the trustee ( Trustee ) of the British Museum.
By Letters Patent of July 3, 1970 Boyle was due to the Life peerages Act 1958 as Life peer with the title Baron Boyle of Handsworth, of Salehurst in the County of Sussex, member of the House of Lords and was this until his death.
1972, another honorary doctorate in law, he was awarded as well as 1981 by the University of Liverpool from the University of Sussex. In 1981, Baron Boyle member of consisting of a maximum of 65 persons Order of the Companions of Honour (CH).
While his peerage became extinct with his death, his younger brother Richard Gurney Boyle succeeded him as 4th Baronet Boyle, of Ockham in Salehurst.
To him, the Edward Boyle Library of the University of Leeds was named in honor.
External links and sources
- Entry in Hansard
- Entry in Cracroft 's Peerage
- Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
- Entry in The Peerage
- Entry in They Work For You
Background literature
- John Campbell: Edward Heath: A Biography, 2013, 1-409-03996- X
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary. Chambers, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2, p 203