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15-626: The Crafts Advisory Committee was formed in 1971 to advise the Minister for the Arts, David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles , ‘on the needs of the artist craftsman and to promote a nation-wide interest and improvement in their products’. Its first meeting was held on 6 October 1971 at the Council of Industrial Design (later the Design Council ). It was later chaired by Sir Paul Sinker . In 1973,

30-788: A second-class degree in PPE . He worked with the Central Mining Corporation in London and Johannesburg . During the Second World War he worked for the Ministry of Economic Warfare from 1939 to 1940 and for the Ministry of Production from 1942 to 1943 and was Economic Adviser to the British ambassadors at Lisbon and Madrid from 1940 to 1942. Eccles was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Chippenham in

45-546: A Council of Foreign Plantations on 1 December that year. The two were united on 16 September 1672 as the Board of Trade and Plantations. After the Board was re-established in 1696, there were 15 (and later 16) members of the Board ;– the 7 (later 8) great officers of state , and eight unofficial members, who did the majority of the work. The senior unofficial board member was the board president, commonly known as

60-485: A wartime by-election in 1943, a seat he held until 1962. He served in the Conservative administrations of Churchill , Eden and Macmillan respectively as Minister of Works from 1951 to 1954 (in which position he helped organise the 1953 Coronation and was appointed KCVO ), as Minister of Education from 1954 to 1957 and again from 1959 to 1962 and as President of the Board of Trade from 1957 to 1959. Eccles

75-403: Is supported by Arts Council England . The Crafts Council is also supported by a number of trusts and foundations and private patrons who support touring exhibitions, professional development schemes and participation and learning programmes. All meet the aims and objectives of charitable organisations supporting the arts. The Crafts Council is made up of a number of specialist teams, reflecting

90-663: The Arts he clashed with the Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain Arnold Goodman over the funding of controversial plays and exhibitions and introduced mandatory admission charges at public museums and galleries. Lord Eccles was made a Doctor of Science (DSc) in 1966 by Loughborough University . He also received an Honorary Science Doctorate from the University of Bath in 1972. Eccles married, firstly,

105-695: The Committee purchased Waterloo Place, London. It began publishing the journal Crafts . It also held its first exhibition, The Craftsman's Art (1973) at the Victoria and Albert Museum , accompanied by publication of the exhibition catalog of the same name. In 1974, it launched the Crafts Advisory Committee Index, an information service for and about craftspeople. In April 1979 the Crafts Advisory Committee

120-504: The Crafts Council decreased its on-site activity and closed the gallery, shop, education workshop and café in order for the Crafts Council to increase its regional activity via partnership working. In 2011, its 40th anniversary year, over 400,000 visitors saw its five temporary exhibitions, 27,000 people attended its craft fairs, and over 7,000 children and young people participated in its nationwide initiatives. The Crafts Council

135-798: The Hon. Sybil Frances Dawson (1904–1977), daughter of Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn , on 1 October 1929. They had three children: A collection of the couple's wartime letters were published under the title By Safe Hand: Letters of Sybil & David Eccles 1939-42 (Bodley Head, 1983). Widowed in 1977, he married again, this time to book collector and philanthropist Mary Morley Crapo Hyde (1912–2003) on 26 September 1984. In his later years, he lived in Montagu Square , London, and his wife's home at Four Oaks Farm, in Branchburg, New Jersey , United States; he died there on 24 February 1999, at

150-595: The age of 94. He left an estate of approximately £2.4 million. President of the Board of Trade The president of the Board of Trade is head of the Board of Trade . A committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom , it was first established as a temporary committee of inquiry in the 17th century that evolved gradually into a government department with diverse functions. The current holder of

165-527: The first lord of trade. The board was abolished on 11 July 1782, but a Committee of the Privy Council was established on 5 March 1784 for the same purposes. On 23 August 1786, a new committee was set up, more strongly focused on commercial functions than the previous boards of trade. At first, the president of the Board of Trade only occasionally sat in the Cabinet . Still, from the early 19th century, it

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180-426: The post is Jonathan Reynolds , who is concurrently the secretary of state for business and trade . The idea of a Board of Trade was first translated into action by Oliver Cromwell in 1655 when he appointed his son Richard Cromwell to head a body of Lords of the Privy Council , judges and merchants to consider measures to promote trade. Charles II established a Council of Trade on 7 November 1660, followed by

195-450: The various aspects of its work, and is overseen by a Senior Management Team, and ultimately a board of Trustees. David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles David McAdam Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles CH KCVO PC (18 September 1904 – 24 February 1999), was an English Conservative politician and businessman. Eccles was born in London. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford , where he obtained

210-519: Was also President of the Board of Trade in January 1957. In 1962 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Eccles , of Chute in the County of Wiltshire , and in 1964 he was created Viscount Eccles , of Chute in the County of Wiltshire. Lord Eccles returned to the government in 1970 when Edward Heath appointed him Paymaster General and Minister for the Arts , a post he held until 1973. As Minister for

225-503: Was renamed the Crafts Council. In 1982, the organisation was granted a Royal Charter and became independent of the Design Council. In 1991, the Crafts Council moved to 44a Pentonville Road , London , where premises included a reference library, a shop, a café, an education workshop and a gallery space. In 1999 it became a funded organisation of the Arts Council of Great Britain (later the Arts Council of England ). In 2006,

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