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Derick Heathcoat Amory, 1st Viscount Amory,
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Bart. (
26 December 1899 –
20 January 1981) was a British
Conservative politician and
Chancellor of the
University of Exeter.
Heathcoat Amory was the son of Sir
Ian Heathcoat-Amory, 2nd Baronet. He was educated at
Eton College and at
Christ Church, Oxford. He became a
Devon County Councillor in 1932 and worked in textile manufacturing and banking.
After service in the
Territorial Army Royal Artillery (including being wounded and captured during
Operation Market-Garden), in which he reached the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel, Heathcoat Amory was elected
Member of Parliament for
Tiverton in 1945. He entered the cabinet under Sir Winston Churchill in July 1954 succeeding
Sir Thomas Dugdale as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. In October 1954 the Ministry merged with the Ministry of Food still in command of Heathcoat Amory.
Gwilym Lloyd George had previously been in charge of Food. He remained in the post until he became
Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1958, under
Harold Macmillan.
Heathcoat Amory was awarded the
honorary degree of Hon. LLD (
Exon) from the
University of Exeter in 1959. He retired from the
House of Commons in 1960, when he was created
Viscount Amory, of Tiverton in the County of Devon, on
1 September 1960, one of the last new hereditary peerages created for senior politicians before
life peerages became the norm. In his later years, he was Chancellor of the
University of Exeter. On his death, the Viscountcy became extinct.
He was an uncle of
David Heathcoat-Amory.
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