Peter Thorneycroft
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The Right Honourable The Lord Thorneycroft CH PC |
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| Chair of the Conservative Party | |
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In office 11 February 1975 – 14 September 1981 |
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| Leader | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Willie Whitelaw |
| Succeeded by | Cecil Parkinson |
| Shadow Home Secretary | |
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In office 4 August 1965 – 13 April 1966 |
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| Leader | Ted Heath |
| Preceded by | Edward Boyle |
| Succeeded by | Quintin Hogg |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Defence | |
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In office 16 October 1964 – 4 August 1965 |
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| Leader | Alec Douglas-Home |
| Preceded by | Denis Healey |
| Succeeded by | Enoch Powell |
| Secretary of State for Defence | |
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In office 13 July 1962 – 16 October 1964 |
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| Prime Minister |
Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home |
| Preceded by | Harold Watkinson |
| Succeeded by | Denis Healey |
| Minister of Aviation | |
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In office 27 July 1960 – 13 July 1962 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan |
| Preceded by | Duncan Sandys |
| Succeeded by | Julian Amery |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 13 January 1957 – 6 January 1958 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan |
| Preceded by | Harold Macmillan |
| Succeeded by | Derick Heathcoat-Amory |
| President of the Board of Trade | |
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In office 30 October 1951 – 13 January 1957 |
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| Prime Minister |
Winston Churchill Anthony Eden |
| Preceded by | Hartley Shawcross |
| Succeeded by | David Eccles |
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Member of Parliament for Monmouth |
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In office 30 October 1945 – 31 March 1966 |
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| Preceded by | Leslie Pym |
| Succeeded by | Donald Anderson |
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Member of Parliament for Stafford |
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In office 9 June 1938 – 5 July 1945 |
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| Preceded by | William Ormsby-Gore |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Swingler |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal |
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In office 4 December 1967 – 4 June 1994 Life Peerage |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
26 July 1909 Dunston, United Kingdom |
| Died | 4 June 1994 (aged 84) London, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Alma mater |
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich City Law School |
George Edward Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft CH PC (26 July 1909 – 4 June 1994), was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1957 and 1958.
Born in Dunston, Staffordshire, Thorneycroft was educated at Eton and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a second lieutenant on 29 August 1929 but resigned his commission on 1 July 1931. In 1933, he was called to the bar for the Inner Temple.
He entered Parliament in the Stafford by-election, 1938, for the borough of Stafford. He was re-commissioned into the Royal Artillery in his previous rank on 30 August 1939. During World War II, he served with the Royal Artillery and the general staff. Along with other members of the Tory Reform Committee, Thorneycroft pressed his party to support the Beveridge Report.
He served in the Conservative caretaker Government 1945 as Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of War Transport. In the 1945 general election, he lost his seat to his Labour opponent, Stephen Swingler, but he returned in the Monmouth by-election, 1945 for Monmouth a few months later.
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