Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Boyd of Merton CH PC DL |
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| Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
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In office 28 July 1954 – 14 October 1959 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister |
Winston Churchill Sir Anthony Eden Harold Macmillan |
| Preceded by | Oliver Lyttelton |
| Succeeded by | Iain Macleod |
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| Born | 18 November 1904 |
| Died | 8 March 1983 (aged 79) |
| Resting place | St Stephen, St Stephen-by-Saltash |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Patricia Guinness (1918–2001) |
| Education | Sherborne School |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Alan Tindal Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, CH, PC, DL (18 November 1904 – 8 March 1983) was a British Conservative politician.
Lennox-Boyd was the son of Alan Lennox-Boyd by his second wife Florence, daughter of James Warburton Begbie. He had an elder half-sister and three full brothers, two of whom were killed in the Second World War and one who died in Germany in April 1939. He was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, with a Master of Arts. He served in the Second World War as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve with Coastal Forces.
Lennox-Boyd was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Bedfordshire in 1931 (at the age of 26), and was admitted to Inner Temple, as a barrister in 1941. He was a member of Winston Churchill's peacetime government as Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation from 1952 to 1954. In this post he once memorably opined that road accidents were the result not of the taking of large risks, but of the taking of small risks very large numbers of times.
As a Minister, he opened the third Woodhead Tunnel on the British Railways electrified railway across the Pennines on 3 June 1954.
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