John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter
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The Right Honourable The Lord Boyd-Carpenter PC DL |
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| Chief Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 16 July 1962 – 15 October 1964 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister |
Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home |
| Chancellor | Reginald Maudling |
| Preceded by | Henry Brooke |
| Succeeded by | John Diamond |
| Paymaster General | |
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In office 16 July 1962 – 15 October 1964 |
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| Prime Minister |
Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home |
| Preceded by | Henry Brooke |
| Succeeded by | George Wigg |
| Minister of Pensions and National Insurance | |
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In office 20 December 1955 – 16 July 1962 |
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| Prime Minister |
Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan |
| Preceded by | Osbert Peake |
| Succeeded by | Niall Macpherson |
| Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation | |
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In office 28 July 1954 – 20 December 1955 |
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| Prime Minister |
Winston Churchill Anthony Eden |
| Preceded by | Alan Lennox-Boyd |
| Succeeded by | Harold Watkinson |
| Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 30 October 1951 – 28 July 1954 |
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| Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | Douglas Jay |
| Succeeded by | Henry Brooke |
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Member of Parliament for Kingston-upon-Thames |
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In office 30 October 1945 – 4 May 1972 |
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| Preceded by | Percy Royds |
| Succeeded by | Norman Lamont |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 June 1908 |
| Died | 11 July 1998 (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.
He was the son of Conservative politician Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter MP. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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