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Sir David Eccles

The Right Honourable
The Viscount Eccles
CH KCVO PC
David Eccles by Stoneman.jpg
1953 photograph of Eccles by Stoneman.
Paymaster General and Minister for the Arts
In office
20 June 1970 – 5 June 1973
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
In office
14 October 1959 – 13 July 1962
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
Preceded by Geoffrey Lloyd
Succeeded by Edward Boyle
In office
18 October 1954 – 13 January 1957
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
Preceded by Florence Horsbrugh
Succeeded by Quintin Hogg
President of the Board of Trade
In office
13 January 1957 – 14 October 1959
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
Preceded by Peter Thorneycroft
Succeeded by Reginald Maudling
Minister of Works
In office
1 November 1951 – 18 October 1954
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Preceded by George Brown
Succeeded by Nigel Birch
Member of Parliament
for Chippenham
In office
24 August 1943 – 13 July 1962
Preceded by Victor Cazalet
Succeeded by Daniel Awdry
Personal details
Born (1904-09-18)18 September 1904
Died 24 February 1999(1999-02-24) (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

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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