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Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle

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or the statesman. The human association which in fact produces and distributes wealth, the association of workmen, managers, technicians and directors is not an association recognised by law. The association which the law does recognise - the association of shareholders, creditors and directors – is incapable of producing and distributing and is not expected to perform these functions. We have to give law to the real association and withdraw meaningless privilege from the imaginary one."
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In his 1944 Riddell Lecture, Percy made a call for the law to be changed radically to recognise companies as associations of productive employees, rather than as associations of shareholders. These were his words: "Here is the most important challenge to political invention ever offered to the jurist
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In 1945, Percy chaired the committee on Higher Technological Education that resulted in the Percy Report. He also chaired a Royal Commission that reviewed mental health legislation in the 1950s and was Rector of King's College, Durham (now
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between 1931 and 1935, but when Baldwin returned as Prime Minister in June 1935 he again became a member of the cabinet as
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Percy served in the Diplomatic Service between 1911 and 1919. From 1919–22, he represented
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became Prime Minister in May of the same year, Percy was moved to the post of
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When the Conservatives returned to power in November 1924, he was appointed
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Newspaper clippings about Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle
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Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle
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British diplomat, Conservative politician and public servant
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by Baldwin, with a seat in the cabinet, and sworn of the
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by Robert Oakeshott, published by Michael Russell, 2000.
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in 1907 and took first-class honours in Modern History.
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politician, public servant, and aristocrat from the
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Lord Eustace Percy
The Right Honourable
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President of the Board of Education
George V
Stanley Baldwin
Charles Trevelyan
Sir Charles Trevelyan, Bt
Minister without Portfolio
George V
Edward VIII
Stanley Baldwin
Mayfair
Etchingham
Conservative
Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland
Alma mater
Christ Church, Oxford
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Conservative
Percy family
President of the Board of Education
Stanley Baldwin
Grosvenor Square
Mayfair
Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
Henry Percy, Earl Percy
Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland

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