British Offices and Honours
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The Right Honourable Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, G.C.B., G.B.E.

  • Born: 26 September 1875
  • Died: 22 June 1937

Known as[]

  • 1875-1916: Mr. Eric Geddes
  • 1916-1917: Sir Eric Geddes
  • 1917-1917: Sir Eric Geddes, G.B.E., K.C.B.
  • 1917-1919: The Rt. Hon. Sir Eric Geddes, G.B.E., K.C.B., M.P.
  • 1919-1922: The Rt. Hon. Sir Eric Geddes, G.C.B., G.B.E., M.P.
  • 1922-1937: The Rt. Hon. Sir Eric Geddes, G.C.B., G.B.E.

Education[]

  • Oxford Military College
  • Merchiston Castle School

Offices[]

Bureaucratic Offices[]

  • Director-General of Military Railways, 1916
  • Inspector-General of Transportation, 1916-1917

Chivalric Orders[]

  • Knight bachelor, 1916
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, 1917
  • Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, 1917
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, 1919

Privy Council[]

Parliamentary Seats[]

  • Member of Parliament for Cambridge, 1917-1922


Preceded by:
Sir Edward Carson
First Lord of the Admiralty
1917–1919
Succeeded by:
Walter Long
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