Cecil Beck
Sir Arthur Cecil Tyrrell Beck (3 December 1876 – 22 March 1932) was a British Liberal Party politician.
Beck was educated at Haileybury and the University of Cambridge.
In 1912 he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into methods of appointment in the Civil Service. He was made a Lord of the Treasury in the Liberal government of H.H. Asquith in February 1915, then was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household on the formation of the wartime coalition government in May 1915. He continued in this post until June 1917, when he was appointed one of the Parliamentary Secretaries and Controller of Finance to the Ministry of National Service. This Ministry was abolished in December 1919, and Beck was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours.[1]
Beck died on 22 March 1932, aged 55, and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.[2]
References
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Cecil Beck
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by Arthur George Brand |
Member of Parliament for Wisbech 1906 – 1910 |
Succeeded by Hon. Neil Primrose |
Preceded by Douglas James Proby |
Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden 1910 – 1922 |
Succeeded by Sir William Foot Mitchell |
Political offices | ||
Preceded by Hon. Geoffrey Howard |
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1915–1917 |
Succeeded by William Dudley Ward |