Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft : Ask Biography

Personal data

Date of birth

26 July 1909

Date of death

4 June 1994(age 84)

Political party

Conservative Party

In office

13 January 1957 - 6 January 1958

Prime minister

Harold Macmillan

Succeeded by

Derick Heathcoat-Amory

Preceded by

Harold Macmillan

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by William Ormsby-Gore	Member of Parliament for Stafford 1938 - 1945	Succeeded by Stephen Swingler
Preceded by Leslie Pym	Member of Parliament for Monmouth 1945 - 1966	Succeeded by Donald Anderson
Political offices
Preceded by Sir Hartley Shawcross	President of the Board of Trade 1951 - 1957	Succeeded by Sir David Eccles
Preceded by Harold Macmillan	Chancellor of the Exchequer 1957 - 1958	Succeeded by Derick Heathcoat-Amory
Preceded by Duncan Sandys	Minister of Aviation 1960 - 1962	Succeeded by Julian Amery
Preceded by Harold Watkinson	Minister of Defence 1962-1964	Succeeded by Himself as Secretary of State for Defence
Preceded by Himself as Minister of Defence	Secretary of State for Defence 1964	Succeeded by Denis Healey
Party political offices
Preceded by William Whitelaw	Chairman of the Conservative Party 1975 - 1981	Succeeded by Cecil Parkinson

Ministers for Defence		Churchill * Attlee * A. V. Alexander * Shinwell * Churchill * H. Alexander * Macmillan * Lloyd * Monckton * Head * Sandys * Watkinson * Thorneycroft
Secretaries of State for Defence		Thorneycroft * Healey * Carrington * Gilmour * Mason * Mulley * Pym * Nott * Heseltine * Younger * King * Rifkind * Portillo * Robertson * Hoon * Reid * Browne * Hutton * Ainsworth * Fox

Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft