UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 27 August 2024
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 18 November 1904

Died: 8 March 1983

1st Viscount Boyd of Merton - 8 September 1960

Member of Privy Council - 6 November 1951

son of Alan Walter Boyd

Sherborne School

Christ Church, Oxford

Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour	1938	1989
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Home Security	1939	1939
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Food	1939	1940
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Aircraft Production	1943	1945
Minister of State, Colonial Office	1951	1952
Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation	1952	1954
Secretary of State for the Colonies	28 July 1954	14 October 1959

30 May 1929	Gower	Conservative & Unionist Party	6,554	17.12
27 October 1931	Mid Bedfordshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,213	47.40
14 November 1935	Mid Bedfordshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,054	50.32
5 July 1945	Mid Bedfordshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,954	37.04
23 February 1950	Mid Bedfordshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	17,671	41.39
25 October 1951	Mid Bedfordshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	19,681	45.39
26 May 1955	Mid Bedfordshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,012	54.71
8 October 1959	Mid Bedfordshire	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,301	46.79
8 September 1960 Elevation of Rt Hon Alan Lennox-Boyd to the Peerage - Viscount Boyd of Merton