Background
Parkinson, Cecil Edward Son of Sidney Parkinson.
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Cecil Edward Parkinson
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Education
Graduate, Royal Lancaster Grammar School Bachelor, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1955; Master of Arts, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1961.
Career
Management trainee, Metal Box Company, 1955;
with, West, Wake, Price, chartered accountants, 1956;
partner, West, Wake, Price, chartered accountants, 1961-1971;
founder, Parkinson Hart Securities Ltd, 1967;
director of several companies, 1965-1979, since 1984;
constituency chairman, Hemel Hempstead Conservative Association
chairman, Herts. 100 Cub, 1968-1969;
Parliamentary private secretary to minister for aerospace and shipping, 1972-1974;
assistant government whip, 1974;
opposition whip, 1974-1976;
opposition spokesman on trade, 1976-1979;
minister for trade, Department of Trade, 1979-1981;
chairman, Conservative Party, 1981-1983;
paymaster general, 1982-1983;
chancellor, Duchy of Lancaster, 1982-1983;
secretary of state for trade and industry, 1983;
secretary of state for energy, 1987-1989;
secretary of state for transport, 1989-1990. Secretary Conservative Party Finance Committee, 1971-1972.
Chairman Anglo-Swiss Party Group, 1979-1982. President Anglo-Polish Conservative Society, since 1986.
Achievements
Membership
Ran for combined Oxford and Cambridge team against American Universities, 1954. Ran for Cambridge against Oxford, 1954, 55.
Interests
Connections
Married Ann Mary Jarvis, 1957.
