Eric Campbell Geddes
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Image:Robert Horne and Eric Geddes - Punch cartoon - Project Gutenberg eText 16684.png Sir Eric Campbell Geddes GCB GBE PC (26 September 1875 – 22 June 1937) was a British Conservative Party politician.
General manager of the North-Eastern Railway, Geddes was one of the "men of push and go" brought into government service by Minister of Munitions David Lloyd George in 1915. During the First World War he was in turn Deputy Director-General of Munitions Supply, Director-General of Military Railways and Inspector-General of Transportation with the British Expeditionary Force, Controller of the Navy then First Lord of the Admiralty, holding the honorary ranks of Major General and Vice Admiral. After the war he served as the first Minister of Transport and as Minister without Portfolio. He chaired the committee on National Expenditure which formulated the controversial government policy of heavy cuts in public expenditure, the policy being known as the Geddes Axe. From 1924 until his death he was chairman of Imperial Airways. His brother Sir Auckland Geddes was also a politician of the period.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by: Almeric Paget | Member of Parliament for Cambridge 1917–1922 | Succeeded by: Sir George Newton |
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| Preceded by: Sir Edward Carson | First Lord of the Admiralty 1917–1919 | Succeeded by: Walter Long |
| Preceded by: Austen Chamberlain | Minister without Portfolio 1919 | Succeeded by: (none) |
| Preceded by: (none) | Minister of Transport 1919–1921 | Succeeded by: The Viscount Peel |
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