Education
Pembroke College.
Pembroke College.
Educated at The Leas, Hoylake, Marlborough College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he first worked with Wilson, Vosper & Coltart, Ships Store & Export Merchants, in Liverpool. He was commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment (Territorial Army) in April 1939 and served until the 1950s, reaching the rank of Major. He held office as Conservative Whip, 1950–1954.
As a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 1951–1954.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, October 1954-January 1957. Minister of Health, 1957, from which he resigned owing to illness in September 1957.
He was Leader of the Parliamentary Delegation to West Indies, 1958. He returned to ministerial office as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1959–1960, as Minister of State for Home Affairs, 1960–1961.
And as Secretary for Technical Company-operation, 1961-1963.
He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1957 and was created a life peer on 20 April 1964 as Baron Runcorn, of Heswall in the County Palatine of Chester.
39th United Kingdom Parliament. 40th United Kingdom Parliament. 41st United Kingdom Parliament.
42nd United Kingdom Parliament]
He was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for Runcorn, Cheshire in 1950, holding the seat until 1964.