Background
COCKFIELD, Francis Arthur was born on September 28, 1916. Parents: the late Lieutenant Charles Francis Cockfield.
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Francis Arthur COCKFIELD
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London School of Economics, Bachelor of Laws, B.Sc.
Career
Member, National Economic Development Council, 1962-1964, 1982-1984. Adviser on Taxation Policy to Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1970-1973. Chairman, Price Commission, 1973-1977.
House of Lords, since 1978. Minister of State, Her Majesty Treasury, 1979-1982. PC, since 1982; Secretary of State for Trade, 1982-1983.
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1983-1984. Vice-President, European Community Commission, 1985-1988. Civil servant, Inland Revenue, 1938.
Called to the Bar, 1942. Assistant Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue, 1945. Director of Statistics and Intelligence, 1945-1952.
Commissioner of Inland Revenue, 1951-1952. Financial Director, then Managing Director and Chairman, Boots Pure Drug Company, 1953-1967. Member. Court of Governors, University of Nottingham, 1963-1967.
President, Royal Statistical Society, 1968-1969. Consultant on European Affairs, Peat Marwick McLintock, 1988-Hon. Fellow, London School of Economics, 1972.
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Conservative Party