Cecil Beck

Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London

Sir Arthur Cecil Tyrrell Beck (3 December 1876 – 22 March 1932) was a British Liberal Party politician.

Beck was educated at Haileybury and the University of Cambridge.

In 1912 he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into methods of appointment in the Civil Service. He was made a Lord of the Treasury in the Liberal government of H.H. Asquith in February 1915, then was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household on the formation of the wartime coalition government in May 1915. He continued in this post until June 1917, when he was appointed one of the Parliamentary Secretaries and Controller of Finance to the Ministry of National Service. This Ministry was abolished in December 1919, and Beck was knighted in the 1920 New Year Honours.

Beck died on 22 March 1932 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Cecil Beck

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Arthur George Brand	Member of Parliament for Wisbech 1906 – December 1910	Succeeded by Hon. Neil Primrose
Preceded by Douglas James Proby	Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden December 1910 – 1922	Succeeded by Sir William Foot Mitchell
Political offices
Preceded by Hon. Geoffrey Howard	Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1915–1917	Succeeded by William Dudley Ward