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John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter PC (2 June 1908 – 11 July 1998) was a British Conservative politician.

[edit] Early life

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.

[edit] War service

He 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.

[edit] Political career

He 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^[1], holding the seat until 1972.

He held ministerial office as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1951-54, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation from 1954-December 1955, Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from December 1955-July 1962^[1], Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster-General from 1962-64. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1954.

Following the Conservative defeat in 1964^[1], 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.

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.

[edit] Family

He was married to Peggy in 1937^[1]. 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.

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

[edit] 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

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