Cecil Beck

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Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London

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]

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Arthur George Brand
Member of Parliament for Wisbech
19061910
Succeeded by
Hon. Neil Primrose
Preceded by
Douglas James Proby
Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden
19101922
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


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