{{Short description|British Conservative politician (1914–2000)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Colonel The Right Honourable | name = The Lord Erroll of Hale | image = Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale.jpg | caption = Frederick Erroll, 1945 | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|TD|PC}} | office1 = Member of the House of Lords | status1 = Lord Temporal | term_label1 = Hereditary peerage | term_start1 = 19 December 1964 | term_end1 = 11 November 1999 | predecessor1 = ''Peerage created'' | successor1 = Seat abolished | term_label2 = Life peerage | term_start2 = 16 November 1999 | term_end2 = 14 September 2000 | office3 = President of the Board of Trade | prime_minister3 = Harold Macmillan | term_start3 = 9 October 1961 | term_end3 = 20 October 1963 | predecessor3 = Reginald Maudling | successor3 = Edward Heath | office4 = Member of Parliament <br /> for Altrincham and Sale | term_start4 = 5 July 1945 | term_end4 = 19 December 1964 | predecessor4 = New Constituency | successor4 = Anthony Barber | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|5|27|df=y}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|9|14|1914|5|27|df=y}} | spouse = {{marriage|Elizabeth Barrow|1950}} }}
'''Frederick James Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale, Baron Erroll of Kilmun''', {{post-nominals|sep=,|size=100%|country=GBR|TD|PC}} (27 May 1914 – 14 September 2000) was a British Conservative politician.
==Background and education== Erroll was the son of George Murison Bergmans, an engineer, and Kathleen, daughter of George Brodrick Edington, a Glasgow ironmaster. The family changed their German surname to Erroll during the First World War. He was educated at Oundle School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a bachelor's degree in mechanical sciences.<ref name="guardian">{{cite news|last1=Roth|first1=Andrew|title=Lord Erroll|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/sep/19/guardianobituaries1|access-date=5 April 2015|work=The Guardian|date=18 September 2000}}</ref>
==Early life and Second World War== Erroll was an engineer at Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd, Manchester, 1936–38. He was commissioned into 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), Territorial Army in 1939, and held technical appointments in connection with tank construction and testing (advising SEAC, 1940–43) and served in India and Burma, 1944–45. He left the forces in 1945 with the rank of colonel.<ref name="guardian"/>
==Political career== Erroll was elected as Member of Parliament for Altrincham and Sale in 1945, holding the seat until 1964. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, 1955–56; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, 1956–58; Economic Secretary to the Treasury, 1958–59; Minister of State for Trade, 1959–61; President of the Board of Trade, 1961–63; and Minister of Power, 1963–64. In 1964 he was raised to the peerage as '''Baron Erroll of Hale''', of Kilmun in the County of Argyll.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=43522 |date=22 December 1964 |page=10933 }}</ref> In 1972 he was President of the Electric Vehicle Association of Great Britain.<ref name="Contact 1972">{{cite journal |title=The Battery-Electric Transport Future |journal=Contact |date=1972 |volume=24 |issue=9, September 1972 |pages=183–186 |url=http://manweb-remembered.co.uk/Sep%2072.pdf}}</ref> In 1999, aged 85, he was awarded a life peerage as '''Baron Erroll of Kilmun''', of Kilmun in Argyll and Bute,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=55672 |date=19 November 1999 |page=12349 }}</ref> to allow him to sit in the House of Lords following the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, which excluded hereditary peers.<ref name="guardian"/>
He was a Member of the House of Lords Select committee on Science and Technology, 1985–91. He held a large number of business appointments.<ref name="guardian"/>
==Personal life== He married Elizabeth Barrow in 1950. Lord Erroll of Hale died in Kensington and Chelsea aged 86. As they had no children, the hereditary barony became extinct on his death.<ref name="guardian"/> {{Infobox COA wide |image = centre|150pxcentre|200px |escutcheon = Per bend Azure and Gules on a bend embellished of six electric flashes Or a fleur-de-lys and two lozenges Sable. |crest = A chevronel round embattled Sable. |supporters = Dexter an elephant guardant Sable, sinister a bear reguardant Argent muzzled Azure and from the muzzle a cord Sable ringed or and reflexed over the back. |motto = It Will Come Out All Right <ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=1973}}</ref> }}
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