David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles
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The Right Honourable The Viscount Eccles CH KCVO PC |
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1953 photograph of Eccles by Stoneman.
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| Paymaster General and Minister for the Arts | |
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In office 20 June 1970 – 5 June 1973 |
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| Prime Minister | Edward Heath |
| Preceded by |
Harold Lever (Paymaster General) Jennie Lee (Minister for the Arts) |
| Succeeded by |
Maurice Macmillan (Paymaster General) Norman St John-Stevas (Minister for the Arts) |
| Minister of Education | |
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In office 14 October 1959 – 13 July 1962 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan |
| Preceded by | Geoffrey Lloyd |
| Succeeded by | Edward Boyle |
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In office 18 October 1954 – 13 January 1957 |
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| Prime Minister | Anthony Eden |
| Preceded by | Florence Horsbrugh |
| Succeeded by | Quintin Hogg |
| President of the Board of Trade | |
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In office 13 January 1957 – 14 October 1959 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan |
| Preceded by | Peter Thorneycroft |
| Succeeded by | Reginald Maudling |
| Minister of Works | |
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In office 1 November 1951 – 18 October 1954 |
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| Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | George Brown |
| Succeeded by | Nigel Birch |
| Member of Parliament for Chippenham |
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In office 24 August 1943 – 13 July 1962 |
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| Preceded by | Victor Cazalet |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Awdry |
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| Born | 18 September 1904 |
| Died | 24 February 1999 (aged 94) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | The Hon. Sybil Dawson (1929-1977) Mary, Viscountess Eccles (1984-death) |
| Children |
Selina Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne The Hon. Simon Eccles The Hon. John Eccles; later 2nd Viscount Eccles |
| Alma mater | New College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Politician and Businessman |
| Religion | Church of England |
David McAdam Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, CH, KCVO, PC (18 September 1904 – 24 February 1999) was an English Conservative politician.
Eccles was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a second-class degree in PPE. He worked with the Central Mining Corporation in London and Johannesburg. During the Second World War he worked for the Ministry of Economic Warfare from 1939 to 1940 and for the Ministry of Production from 1942 to 1943 and was Economic Adviser to the British ambassadors at Lisbon and Madrid from 1940 to 1942.
Eccles was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Chippenham in a wartime by-election in 1943, a seat he held until 1962. He served in the Conservative administrations of Churchill, Eden and Macmillan respectively as Minister of Works from 1951 to 1954 (in which position he helped organise the 1953 Coronation and was appointed KCVO), as Minister of Education from 1954 to 1957 and again from 1959 to 1962 and as President of the Board of Trade from 1957 to 1959. Eccles was also President of the Board of Trade in January 1957.
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