John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter
John Archibald Boyd - Carpenter, Baron Boyd - Carpenter, of Crux Easton in the County of Southampton (* June 2, 1908, † 11 July 1998) was a British politician of the Conservative Party.
Life
Boyd - Carpenter was the son of the House of Representatives Archibald Boyd - Carpenter, who among other things was at times also Paymaster General, and grandson of William Boyd Carpenter, a clergyman of the Church of England and longtime bishop of the diocese of Ripon.
After attending Stowe School, he studied history at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he was president of the Oxford Union in 1930, and acquired in 1931 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA History) and a degree in economics. Following studied with a scholarship law at the Bar Association of Stowe School and worked according to the lawyer's approval in 1933 as an attorney.
Boyd - Carpenter made during the Second World War, his military service in the Scots Guards of the British Army and was recently promoted to Major.
As a candidate of the Conservative Party, he was first elected as an MP in the House of Commons at the general election of July 5, 1945 and represented in this up to his mandate waiver and its replacement by Norman Lamont on March 31, 1972 the constituency of Kingston upon Thames.
After the electoral victory of the Conservatives in the general election of 25 October 1951, he was first Financial Secretary to the Treasury ( Financial Secretary to the Treasury), before he was appointed in 1954 in a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Winston Churchill as Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation.
Subsequently, he was appointed Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from Churchill's successor Anthony Eden in 1955 and held that office under Harold Macmillan, Eden's successor as prime minister until 1962. Recently was Boyd - Carpenter during the tenures of Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home between 1962 and 1964 paymaster General ( paymaster General ) and also Chief Secretary of the Treasury (Chief Secretary to the Treasury).
After retiring from the House of Commons he was appointed to the County of Southampton in the peerage for life peer with the title Baron Boyd - Carpenter of Crux Easton and thus belonged to his death the House of Lords as a member. At the same time he became the first chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA ).
Publications
- About bureaucracy: some facts and ideas for discussion groups, London 1949
- The Conservative case, London 1950
- Way of life: the memoirs of John Boyd - Carpenter, Autobiography, London 1980, ISBN 0-283-98630-1