Background
The son of the 1st Viscount Eccles and Sybil Dawson, he was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, politics and economics in 1954.
The son of the 1st Viscount Eccles and Sybil Dawson, he was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, politics and economics in 1954.
Student, Winchester College, England, 1945. Student, Magdalen College, England. Bachelor, Oxford University, 1954.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Cranfield Institute of Technology, 1989.
He is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Acting 1999. He served in the 1st Battalion (60th Rifles), King"s Royal Rifle Corps, reaching the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. On 24 February 1999, he entered his inheritance.
Lord Eccles entered the House of Lords upon its reform.
However, due to the House of Lords Acting, he was soon obliged to vacate his position the House. He was later invited to election as one of the 92 remaining hereditary peers in a by-election forced by the death of the 4th Baron Aberdare, and returned to the House in 2005.
The Nuclear Power Group: director from 1968 to 1974
Head Wrightson & Company Limited: managing director from 1968 to 1977, chairman from 1976 to 1977
Glynwed International plc: director from 1972 to 1996
Investors in Industry plc: director from 1974 to 1988
Monopolies and Mergers Commission: member from 1976 to 1986, deputy chairman from 1981 to 1985
Davy International Limited: director from 1977 to 1981
Chamberlin & Hill plc: chairman from 1982 to 2004
Industrial Development Advisory Board: member from 1989 to 1993
Acker Deboeck corporate psychologists: chairman from 1994 to 2004
Commonwealth Development Corporation: member from 1982 to 1985, general manager and chief executive from 1985 to 1994. Courtaulds Textiles plc: director from 1992 to 2000, chairman from 1995 to 2000
Bowes Museum Trust: chairman from 2000
Lord Eccles married Diana Catherine Sturge 29 January 1955, in Bletchingley, Surrey.
They have four children:
Honorary
Alice Belinda Eccles b. 15 January 1958
Honorary William David Eccles b. 9 June 1960
Honorary Catherine Sara Eccles b.
3 March 1963
Honorary
Emily Frances Eccles b. 1970
Viscountess Eccles was created a life peer in her own right in 1990 as Baroness Eccles of Moulton, and so also sits in the House of Lords. They are one of the few couples who both hold titles in their own right.
Mr John Eccles (1931–1962)
The Honorary
John Eccles (1962–1985)
The Honorary John Eccles Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1985–1999)
The Rt.
Honorary The Viscount Eccles Commander of the Order of the British Empire (since 1999).
Member Industrial Development Advisory Board, 1989-1993. Chairman board trustees Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, 1983-1991. Member Brook's.
Son of 1st Viscount E. Married Diana Catherine Sturge, 1955. 4 children.