John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter

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

The Right Honourable
The Lord Boyd-Carpenter
PC DL
Photograph from 1927
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office
16 July 1962  15 October 1964
MonarchElizabeth II
Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan
Alec Douglas-Home
ChancellorReginald Maudling
Preceded byHenry Brooke
Succeeded byJohn Diamond
Ministerial offices 1951-64
Paymaster General
In office
16 July 1962  15 October 1964
Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan
Alec Douglas-Home
Preceded byHenry Brooke
Succeeded byGeorge Wigg
Minister of Pensions and National Insurance
In office
20 December 1955  16 July 1962
Prime MinisterAnthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Preceded byOsbert Peake
Succeeded byNiall Macpherson
Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation
In office
28 July 1954  20 December 1955
Prime MinisterWinston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Preceded byAlan Lennox-Boyd
Succeeded byHarold Watkinson
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office
30 October 1951  28 July 1954
Prime MinisterWinston Churchill
Preceded byDouglas Jay
Succeeded byHenry Brooke
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
1 May 1972  11 July 1998
Life Peerage
Member of Parliament
for Kingston-upon-Thames
In office
5 July 1945  31 March 1972
Preceded byPercy Royds
Succeeded byNorman Lamont
Personal details
Born
John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter

2 June 1908 (1908-06-02)
Knaresborough, England
Died11 July 1998(1998-07-11) (aged 90)
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Margaret Hall
(m. 1937)
Children3
Alma materStowe School
Balliol College, Oxford
Middle Temple
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