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| image = David Eccles by Stoneman.jpg
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| imagesize =
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| caption = 1953 photograph of Eccles by [[Walter Stoneman|Stoneman]].
| caption = Portrait of Eccles by [[Walter Stoneman]], 1953
| order = [[Minister for the Arts|Minister of State for the Arts]]<br />[[Paymaster General]]
| office = [[Paymaster General]]
| monarch = [[Elizabeth II]]
| primeminister = [[Edward Heath]]
| primeminister = [[Edward Heath]]
| term_start = 20 June 1970
| term_start = 20 June 1970
| term_end = 5 June 1973
| term_end = 5 June 1973
| predecessor = [[Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge|Jennie Lee]]<br /> (Minister for the Arts)<br /> [[Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester|Harold Lever]]<br />(Paymaster General)
| predecessor = [[Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester|Harold Lever]]
| successor =[[Norman St John-Stevas]]<br /> (Minister for the Arts) <br /> [[Maurice Macmillan]]<br /> (Paymaster General)
| successor = [[Maurice Macmillan]]
| order1 = [[Secretary of State for Education#Minister of Education|Minister of Education]]
| office1 = [[Minister for the Arts (United Kingdom)|Minister for the Arts]]
| monarch1 = [[Elizabeth II]]
| primeminister1 = [[Edward Heath]]
| term_start1 = 20 June 1970
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| primeminister1 = [[Harold Macmillan]]
| term_start1 = 14 October 1959
| term_end1 = 5 June 1973
| predecessor1 = [[Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge|Jennie Lee]]
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| term_end1 = 13 July 1962
| predecessor1 = [[Geoffrey Lloyd, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd|Geoffrey Lloyd]]
| successor1 = [[Norman St John-Stevas]]
| successor1 = [[Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth|Edward Boyle]]
| office2 = [[Ministry of Education (United Kingdom)|Minister of Education]]
| monarch2 = [[Elizabeth II]]
| primeminister2 = [[Harold Macmillan]]
| primeminister2 = [[Anthony Eden]]
| term_start2 = 14 October 1959
| term_start2 = 18 October 1954
| term_end2 = 13 July 1962
| predecessor2 = [[Geoffrey Lloyd, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd|Geoffrey Lloyd]]
| term_end2 = 13 January 1957
| predecessor2 = [[Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh|Florence Horsbrugh]]
| successor2 = [[Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth|Edward Boyle]]
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| primeminister3 = [[Anthony Eden]]
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| successor2 = [[Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone|Quintin Hogg]]
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| term_start3 = 18 October 1954
| order3 = [[President of the Board of Trade]]
| monarch3 = [[Elizabeth II]]
| term_end3 = 13 January 1957
| predecessor3 = [[Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh|Florence Horsbrugh]]
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| primeminister3 = [[Harold Macmillan]]
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| successor3 = [[Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone|Quintin Hogg]]
| term_start3 = 13 January 1957
| term_end3 = 14 October 1959
| office4 = [[President of the Board of Trade]]
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| primeminister4 = [[Harold Macmillan]]
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| predecessor3 = [[Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft|Peter Thorneycroft]]
| successor3 = [[Reginald Maudling]]
| term_start4 = 13 January 1957
| term_end4 = 14 October 1959
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| order4 = [[First Commissioner of Works#Minister of Works|Minister of Works]]
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| predecessor4 = [[Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft|Peter Thorneycroft]]
| monarch4 = [[Elizabeth II]]<br />[[George VI]]
| primeminister4 = [[Winston Churchill]]
| successor4 = [[Reginald Maudling]]
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| office5 = [[Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)|Minister of Works]]
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| term_start4 = 1 November 1951
| primeminister5 = [[Winston Churchill]]
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| term_end4 = 18 October 1954
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| term_start5 = 1 November 1951
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| predecessor4 = [[George Brown, Baron George-Brown|George Brown]]
| successor4 = [[Nigel Birch, Baron Rhyl|Nigel Birch]]
| term_end5 = 18 October 1954
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| predecessor5 = [[George Brown, Baron George-Brown|George Brown]]
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| order5 =
| successor5 = [[Nigel Birch, Baron Rhyl|Nigel Birch]]
| term_start5 =
| term_end5 =
| office6 = [[Member of the House of Lords]]
|office6 = [[Members of the House of Lords|Member of the House of Lords]]<br />[[Lords Temporal|Lord Temporal]]
| status6 = [[Lord Temporal]]
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| term_label6 = [[Hereditary peer]]age
|term_start6 = 13 July 1962
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| term_start6 = 13 July 1962
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|term_end6 = 24 February 1999<br />[[Hereditary peer]]age
| term_end6 = 24 February 1999
| predecessor6 = ''[[Viscount Eccles|Peerage created]]''
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| predecessor6 =
| successor6 = [[John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles|The 2nd Viscount Eccles]]
| successor6 = [[John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles|The 2nd Viscount Eccles]]
| office7 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Chippenham (UK Parliament constituency)|Chippenham]]
| office7 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Chippenham (UK Parliament constituency)|Chippenham]]
| term_start7 = 24 August 1943
| term_start7 = 24 August 1943
| term_end7 = 13 July 1962
| term_end7 = 13 July 1962
| predecessor7 = [[Victor Alexander Cazalet|Victor Cazalet]]
| predecessor7 = [[Victor Cazalet]]
| successor7 = [[Daniel Awdry]]
| successor7 = [[Daniel Awdry]]
| birth_name = David McAdam Eccles
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|9|18|df=y}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1904|9|18|df=y}}
| birth_place =
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|2|24|1904|9|18|df=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1999|2|24|1904|9|18|df=y}}
| death_place =
| death_place = [[Branchburg, New Jersey]], US
| nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]]
| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
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* {{marriage|[[Mary Eccles, Viscountess Eccles|Mary Morley Crapo]]|1984}}
}}
| relations =
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| children = [[John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles]]<br />Hon. Simon Eccles<br />[[Selina Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne]]
| children = [[John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles]]<br />Hon. Simon Eccles<br />[[Selina Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne]]
| alma_mater = [[New College, Oxford]]
| alma_mater = [[New College, Oxford]]
| occupation = Politician, businessman
| occupation = Politician, businessman
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'''David McAdam Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|KCVO|PC}} (18 September 1904 – 24 February 1999), was an [[English people|English]] [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[politician]].
'''David McAdam Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|KCVO|PC}} (18 September 1904 – 24 February 1999), was an English [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician and businessman.


==Background==
==Education and early career==
Eccles was educated at [[Winchester College]] and [[New College, Oxford]], where he obtained a [[British undergraduate degree classification|second-class degree]] in [[Philosophy, Politics and Economics|PPE]]. He worked with the Central Mining Corporation in [[London]] and [[Johannesburg]]. During the [[Second World War]] he worked for the [[Minister of Economic Warfare|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 [[ambassador]]s at [[Lisbon]] and [[Madrid]] from 1940 to 1942.
Eccles was born in London.<ref name = ODNB>{{cite ODNB|title = Eccles, David McAdam, first Viscount Eccles (1904–1999), businessman and politician|last = Pugh|first = Martin|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/71965|date = 2004}}</ref> He was educated at [[Winchester College]] and [[New College, Oxford]], where he obtained a [[British undergraduate degree classification|second-class degree]] in [[Philosophy, Politics and Economics|PPE]].<ref name = ODNB/> He worked with the Central Mining Corporation in London and [[Johannesburg]]. During the [[Second World War]] he worked for the [[Minister of Economic Warfare|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.<ref name = ODNB/>


==Political career==
==Political career==
Eccles was elected as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Chippenham (UK Parliament constituency)|Chippenham]] in a wartime [[by-election]] in 1943, a seat he held until 1962. He served in the Conservative administrations of [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]], [[Anthony Eden|Eden]] and [[Harold Macmillan|Macmillan]] respectively as [[Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)|Minister of Works]] from 1951 to 1954 (in which position he helped organise the [[Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II|1953 Coronation]] and was appointed [[Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order|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.<ref>''List of Presidents/Secretaries of State'' (2007), Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, London, UK, viewed 8 May 2008, {{cite web |url=http://www.berr.gov.uk/about/about-berr/history/presidents-secretaries/page13935.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-05-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719135506/http://www.berr.gov.uk/about/about-berr/history/presidents-secretaries/page13935.html |archive-date=19 July 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
Eccles was elected as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Chippenham (UK Parliament constituency)|Chippenham]] in a wartime by-election in 1943, a seat he held until 1962.<ref name = ODNB/> He served in the Conservative administrations of [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]], [[Anthony Eden|Eden]] and [[Harold Macmillan|Macmillan]] respectively as [[Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)|Minister of Works]] from 1951 to 1954 (in which position he helped organise the [[Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II|1953 Coronation]] and was appointed [[Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order|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.<ref>''List of Presidents/Secretaries of State'' (2007), Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, London, UK, viewed 8 May 2008, {{cite web |url=http://www.berr.gov.uk/about/about-berr/history/presidents-secretaries/page13935.html |title=Welcome to nginx |access-date=2008-05-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719135506/http://www.berr.gov.uk/about/about-berr/history/presidents-secretaries/page13935.html |archive-date=19 July 2012 }}</ref>


In 1962 he was raised to the peerage as '''Baron Eccles''', of [[Chute, Wiltshire|Chute in the County of Wiltshire]], and in 1964 he was created '''Viscount Eccles''', of Chute in the County of Wiltshire. Lord Eccles returned to the government in 1970 when [[Edward Heath]] appointed him [[Paymaster-General]] and [[Minister for the Arts]], a post he held until 1973. As Minister for the Arts he clashed with the Chairman of the [[Arts Council of Great Britain]] [[Arnold Goodman]] over the funding of controversial plays and exhibitions and introduced mandatory admission charges at public museums and galleries. Lord Eccles was made a [[Doctor of Science]] (DSc) in 1966 by [[Loughborough University]].<ref>''Honorary Graduates and University Medallists since 1966'' (2008), Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK, viewed 29 April 2008, http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/publicity/degree_days/hon_grads_66to79.html</ref> He also received an Honorary Science Doctorate from the [[University of Bath]] in 1972.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/ceremonies/hongrads/older.html | title=Corporate Information | access-date=23 February 2012 | archive-date=25 May 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160525041553/http://www.bath.ac.uk/ceremonies/hongrads/older.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 1962 he was raised to the peerage as '''Baron Eccles''', of [[Chute, Wiltshire|Chute in the County of Wiltshire]], and in 1964 he was created '''Viscount Eccles''', of Chute in the County of Wiltshire. Lord Eccles returned to the government in 1970 when [[Edward Heath]] appointed him [[Paymaster General]] and [[Minister for the Arts (United Kingdom)|Minister for the Arts]], a post he held until 1973. As Minister for the Arts he clashed with the Chairman of the [[Arts Council of Great Britain]] [[Arnold Goodman]] over the funding of controversial plays and exhibitions and introduced mandatory admission charges at public museums and galleries. Lord Eccles was made a [[Doctor of Science]] (DSc) in 1966 by [[Loughborough University]].<ref>''Honorary Graduates and University Medallists since 1966'' (2008), Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK, viewed 29 April 2008, http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/publicity/degree_days/hon_grads_66to79.html</ref> He also received an Honorary Science Doctorate from the [[University of Bath]] in 1972.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/ceremonies/hongrads/older.html | title=Corporate Information | access-date=23 February 2012 | archive-date=25 May 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160525041553/http://www.bath.ac.uk/ceremonies/hongrads/older.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
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* [[Selina Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne|The Hon. Selina Eccles]] (born 1937); m. firstly Robin Andrew Duthac Carnegie (grandson of [[Charles Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk]]); m. secondly [[George Petty-FitzMaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne]]; became The Marchioness of Lansdowne.
* [[Selina Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne|The Hon. Selina Eccles]] (born 1937); m. firstly Robin Andrew Duthac Carnegie (grandson of [[Charles Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk]]); m. secondly [[George Petty-FitzMaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne]]; became The Marchioness of Lansdowne.


A collection of the couple's wartime letters were published under the title ''By Safe Hand: Letters of Sybil & David Eccles 1939-42'' (Bodley Head, 1983).
Widowed, he married again, this time to book collector and philanthropist [[Mary Eccles, Viscountess Eccles|Mary Morley Crapo Hyde]] (1912–2003) on 26 September 1984.

He died at age 94 at home of natural causes leaving an estate of approximately £2.4 million.<ref>{{Cite ODNB | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/71965 |doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/71965|title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004}}</ref>
Widowed in 1977, he married again, this time to book collector and philanthropist [[Mary Eccles, Viscountess Eccles|Mary Morley Crapo Hyde]] (1912–2003) on 26 September 1984.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/27/style/mary-hyde-is-wed-to-viscount-eccles.html|title= Mary Hyde Is Wed to Viscount Eccles |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=27 September 1984|access-date=3 October 2022}}</ref> In his later years, he lived in [[Montagu Square]], London, and his wife's home at Four Oaks Farm, in [[Branchburg, New Jersey]], United States; he died there on 24 February 1999, at the age of 94.<ref name = ODNB/><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/02/classified/paid-notice-deaths-eccles-viscount-david.html|title = Paid Notice: Deaths ECCLES, VISCOUNT (DAVID)|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|date = 2 March 1999|page = C22|accessdate = 14 October 2024|url-access = limited}}</ref> He left an estate of approximately £2.4 million.<ref name = ODNB/>


==Styles and honours==
==Styles and honours==
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==Notes==
==Notes==
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For other people named David Eccles, see David Eccles (disambiguation).

The Right Honourable
The Viscount Eccles
CH KCVO PC
Portrait of Eccles by Walter Stoneman, 1953
Paymaster General
In office
20 June 1970 – 5 June 1973
Prime MinisterEdward Heath
Preceded byHarold Lever
Succeeded byMaurice Macmillan
Minister for the Arts
In office
20 June 1970 – 5 June 1973
Prime MinisterEdward Heath
Preceded byJennie Lee
Succeeded byNorman St John-Stevas
Minister of Education
In office
14 October 1959 – 13 July 1962
Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan
Preceded byGeoffrey Lloyd
Succeeded byEdward Boyle
In office
18 October 1954 – 13 January 1957
Prime MinisterAnthony Eden
Preceded byFlorence Horsbrugh
Succeeded byQuintin Hogg
President of the Board of Trade
In office
13 January 1957 – 14 October 1959
Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan
Preceded byPeter Thorneycroft
Succeeded byReginald Maudling
Minister of Works
In office
1 November 1951 – 18 October 1954
Prime MinisterWinston Churchill
Preceded byGeorge Brown
Succeeded byNigel Birch
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Hereditary peerage
13 July 1962 – 24 February 1999
Succeeded byThe 2nd Viscount Eccles
Member of Parliament
for Chippenham
In office
24 August 1943 – 13 July 1962
Preceded byVictor Cazalet
Succeeded byDaniel Awdry
Personal details
Born
David McAdam Eccles

(1904-09-18)18 September 1904
London, England
Died24 February 1999(1999-02-24) (aged 94)
Branchburg, New Jersey, US
Political partyConservative
Spouses
Hon. Sybil Dawson
​
​
(m. 1929; died 1977)​
​
(m. 1984)​
ChildrenJohn Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles
Hon. Simon Eccles
Selina Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne
Alma materNew College, Oxford
OccupationPolitician, businessman

David McAdam Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles CH KCVO PC (18 September 1904 – 24 February 1999), was an English Conservative politician and businessman.

Background

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Eccles was born in London.[1] He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a second-class degree in PPE.[1] 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.[1]

Political career

[edit]

Eccles was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Chippenham in a wartime by-election in 1943, a seat he held until 1962.[1] 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.[2]

In 1962 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, and in 1964 he was created Viscount Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire. Lord Eccles returned to the government in 1970 when Edward Heath appointed him Paymaster General and Minister for the Arts, a post he held until 1973. As Minister for the Arts he clashed with the Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain Arnold Goodman over the funding of controversial plays and exhibitions and introduced mandatory admission charges at public museums and galleries. Lord Eccles was made a Doctor of Science (DSc) in 1966 by Loughborough University.[3] He also received an Honorary Science Doctorate from the University of Bath in 1972.[4]

Personal life

[edit]

Eccles married, firstly, the Hon. Sybil Frances Dawson (1904–1977), daughter of Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn, on 1 October 1929. They had three children:

A collection of the couple's wartime letters were published under the title By Safe Hand: Letters of Sybil & David Eccles 1939-42 (Bodley Head, 1983).

Widowed in 1977, he married again, this time to book collector and philanthropist Mary Morley Crapo Hyde (1912–2003) on 26 September 1984.[5] In his later years, he lived in Montagu Square, London, and his wife's home at Four Oaks Farm, in Branchburg, New Jersey, United States; he died there on 24 February 1999, at the age of 94.[1][6] He left an estate of approximately £2.4 million.[1]

Styles and honours

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  • Mr David Eccles (1904–1943)
  • Mr David Eccles MP (1943–1953)
  • Sir David Eccles KCVO MP (1953–1962)
  • The Rt. Hon. The Lord Eccles KCVO PC (1962–1964)
  • The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Eccles KCVO PC (1964–1984)
  • The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Eccles CH KCVO PC (1984–1999)
Coat of arms of David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles
Crest
A three-masted Ship sails furled pennons and flags flying Or between two Wings addorsed Sable
Escutcheon
Chevronny Argent and Sable per pale counterchanged two Torches erect Or enflamed proper
Supporters
On either side a Wolf Sable armed and langued Gules gorged with a Plain Collar attached thereto a Chain reflexed over the back and resting the interior hind paw on a Portcullis chained Or
Motto
Truth and Beauty[7]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Pugh, Martin (2004). "Eccles, David McAdam, first Viscount Eccles (1904–1999), businessman and politician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/71965. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ List of Presidents/Secretaries of State (2007), Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, London, UK, viewed 8 May 2008, "Welcome to nginx". Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2008.
  3. ^ Honorary Graduates and University Medallists since 1966 (2008), Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK, viewed 29 April 2008, http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/publicity/degree_days/hon_grads_66to79.html
  4. ^ "Corporate Information". Archived from the original on 25 May 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
  5. ^ "Mary Hyde Is Wed to Viscount Eccles". The New York Times. 27 September 1984. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths ECCLES, VISCOUNT (DAVID)". The New York Times. 2 March 1999. p. C22. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
  7. ^ "Eccles, Viscount (UK, 1964)".

References

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Chippenham
1943–1962 		Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by Paymaster General
1970–1973 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister for the Arts
1970–1973 		Succeeded by
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Viscount Eccles
1964–1999 		Succeeded by
Baron Eccles
1962–1999
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