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Sir Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter (26 March 1873 – 27 May 1937) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Career

The fourth son of William Boyd-Carpenter,

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and Canon of Westminster, Archibald Boyd-Carpenter was educated at

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and at

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, where he was Secretary and President of the

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. Following college he worked for three years in the editorial staff of the ''

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''. With the start of the

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in late 1899, Boyd-Carpenter volunteered for active service and was commissioned with the

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, seeing service in South Africa attached to the

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. He was promoted to

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on 17 April 1901, and was from 1901 to 1902 Staff Captain to Major-General

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, and Brigadier General

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while they served as Inspector general of Imperial Yeomanry. For his service in the war, he was

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and awarded the Queen's medal (with 3 clasps) and the King's medal (with 2 clasps). After the war ended in June 1902, he returned home with Belfield in the ''SS Kinfauns Castle'' leaving

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two months later, and relinquished his commission in the Imperial Yeomanry in October 1902. He later served in the

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. He was Mayor of

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, 1909–1910 and 1910–1911; Alderman of the Borough and represented Harrogate in

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, 1910–1919. He was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford North from 1918 to 1923, for

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from 1924 to 1929 and for

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from 1931. Boyd-Carpenter held ministerial office as Parliamentary Secretary to the

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from November 1922 until March 1923,

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from March to May 1923, Parliamentary and

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to the

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and

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from May 1923 until January 1924. Boyd-Carpenter was knighted in 1926. Boyd-Carpenter married Annie Dugdale in 1907 and they had a son and daughter. He died on 27 May 1937 in Harrogate, aged 64."Sir Archibald Boyd Carpenter, M.P." Times ondon, England28 May 1937: 18. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 8 September 2013. His son,

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, was also a Conservative MP and Minister.

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