John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter

The Right Honourable The Lord Boyd-Carpenter PC DL
File:John Boyd-Carpenter 1949.jpg
Photograph from 1949
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 16 July 1962 – 15 October 1964
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home
Chancellor	Reginald Maudling
Preceded by	Henry Brooke
Succeeded by	John Diamond
Paymaster General
In office 16 July 1962 – 15 October 1964
Prime Minister	Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home
Preceded by	Henry Brooke
Succeeded by	George Wigg
Minister of Pensions and National Insurance
In office 20 December 1955 – 16 July 1962
Prime Minister	Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan
Preceded by	Osbert Peake
Succeeded by	Niall Macpherson
Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation
In office 28 July 1954 – 20 December 1955
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill Anthony Eden
Preceded by	Alan Lennox-Boyd
Succeeded by	Harold Watkinson
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office 30 October 1951 – 28 July 1954
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Douglas Jay
Succeeded by	Henry Brooke
Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Thames
In office 30 October 1945 – 4 May 1972
Preceded by	Percy Royds
Succeeded by	Norman Lamont
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 1 May 1972 – 11 July 1998 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	2 June 1908 (1908-06-02)
Died	11 July 1998 (1998-07-12) (aged 90)
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Peggy, m.1937
Alma mater	Stowe 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.

Early life

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. 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.

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.

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, holding the seat until 1972, when he was raised to the peerage.

He held ministerial office as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1951–54. In 1954 he was promoted to Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation and appointed a Privy Counsellor. In December 1955 he was moved to the position of Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, which he held until July 1962 (the young Margaret Thatcher served under him as Parliamentary Under-Secretary, her first ministerial job, from October 1961). He was then Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General from 1962-64.

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.

Following the Conservative defeat in 1964, he served as Opposition Front Bench Spokesman on Housing, Local Government and Land, 1964–66, and as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee from 1964-70. 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. His successor at the ensuing byelection was Norman Lamont, the future Chancellor under Major.

As the first Chairman of the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (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.

Family

Boyd-Carpenter was married to Peggy in 1937. Boyd-Carpenter's son, Thomas Boyd-Carpenter, was himself knighted following his military and public service careers. One of his two daughters, Sarah Hogg, Baroness Hogg, married Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham, and is a life peer in her own right.

Styles of address

• 1908–1945: Mr John Boyd-Carpenter
• 1945–1954: Mr John Boyd-Carpenter MP
• 1954–1972: The Rt Hon. John Boyd-Carpenter MP
• 1972–1998: The Rt Hon. The Lord Boyd-Carpenter PC

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs }

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• The Peerage entry A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe - Person Page - 14764 - John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter #147632, b. 2 June 1908, d. 11 July 1998.
• Burkes Peerage (S37) BP2003 volume 1, page 471. Citing:
• 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
• Thorpe, D. R. (1989). Selwyn Lloyd. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd. 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 See also.