Home › G › Geddes (SIR ERIC CAMPBELL an English)

Geddes (SIR ERIC CAMPBELL an English)

SIR ERIC (CAMPBELL). an English public official. He was born in India in 1876 and was educated at Oxford Military College and Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh. After leaving school he engaged in lumbering in the Southern States of America and was an employee of the Baltimore and Ohio railway. Later he was connected with the Rohilkund and Kumaon railway, India, and returning to England became deputy general manager of the North Eastern SIR ERIC GEDDES railway. During the World War he be came Deputy Director-General of Military Railways and Inspector-General of Transportation. In 1917, he became honorable Major-General, additional member of the Board of Admiralty, Navy Controller, and Temporary Honorable Vice- Admiral. In 1918 he was a member of the Imperial War Cabinet and First Lord of the Admiralty. He has been member of Parliament for Cambridge since 1917 and Minister without portfolio since 1919.