Sir Eric Campbell-Geddes GCB

Order of the Bath

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, GBE

Order of the British Empire

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, PC (26 September 1875 – 22 June 1937) was a British

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 businessman and Conservative

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 politician. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1917 and 1919 and as the first Minister of Transport

Secretary of State for Transport

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 between 1919 and 1921.
Born in British India, Geddes was the son of Auckland Campbell Geddes, of Edinburgh

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, Scotland

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, and the elder brother of Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes

Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes

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. He was educated at Oxford Military College

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 and Merchiston Castle School

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, Edinburgh.
Geddes worked in lumbering in the United States

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 and in the railway business with Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

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 and Rohilkund and Kumaon in India.