Everything about Edward Boyle Baron Boyle Of Handsworth totally explained
Edward Charles Gurney Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth CH PC (
31 August 1923 –
28 September 1981) was a
British Conservative Party politician.
Boyle was the eldest son of
Sir Edward Boyle, 2nd Baronet and succeeded to his father's
baronetcy in 1945. He was educated at
Eton and graduated from
Christ Church, Oxford in 1949. From 1942-45, he was a temporary junior administration officer at the
Foreign Office. He worked at
Bletchley Park in intelligence.
In 1950, he entered the Parliament as
MP for
Birmingham Handsworth, a seat he'd hold until his retirement in 1970. During this time, he was also:
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the
Under-Secretary of State for Air, from 1951-52 and to the
Under-Secretary of State for Defence in 1952;
Parliamentary Secretary to the
Minister of Supply from 1954-55;
Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1955-56; Parliamentary Secretary to the
Minister of Education from 1957-59;
Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1959-62;
Minister of Education from 1962-64 and
Minister of State for Education and Science in 1964.
In 1970, Boyle was awarded a
life peerage as
Baron Boyle of Handsworth, of
Salehurst in the County of
Sussex and became
Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Leeds that year. From 1970-81, he was a Trustee of the
British Museum, Chairman of the
Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of UK Universities from 1977-78 and was awarded honorary
Doctor of Laws degrees from the Leeds and
Southampton in 1965,
Bath in 1968,
Sussex in 1972 and
Liverpool in 1981.
Boyle died unmarried and childless in 1981 and his life peerage naturally became extinct, whilst his baronetcy passed to his brother,
Richard.
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