Autographs of Cecil Parkinson

Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, PC (1 September 1931 – 22 January 2016) was a British Conservative Party politician and cabinet minister. A chartered accountant by training, he entered Parliament in November 1970, and was appointed a minister in Margaret Thatcher's first government in May 1979. He successfully managed the Conservative Party's 1983 election campaign, and was rewarded with an appointment as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, but was forced to resign following revelations that his former secretary, Sara Keays, was pregnant with his child, whom she later bore and named Flora Keays. Flora was born with severe cerebral palsy.
Parkinson subsequently served as Secretary of State for Energy, and later Secretary of State for Transport. He resigned that office in 1990, on the same day that Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister. He was created Baron Parkinson in 1992, and served in the House of Lords until his retirement in September 2015.
Cecil Parkinson was born at 4 Edward Street, Carnforth, Lancashire, the son of Sydney Parkinson (13 April 1906 – 15 July 1995), a warehouseman for a corn dealer, later a railwayman, and his wife, Bridget, née Graham (29 January 1910 – 1991), who was from a Northern Irish family from Tyrone and Fermanagh but their roots were in Scotland. He had a younger sister, Norma (b. March 1933). He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, a state-run day and boarding school for boys, from 1943 to 1950 after passing his eleven-plus from where he won a scholarship to Cambridge University, where he read English at Emmanuel College, later switching to read law. He won a Blue as an athlete, competing over 220 and 440 yards. While at university, Parkinson was a Labour supporter and for a time was a member of that party. He even canvassed for them at the 1950 and 1951 General Elections. He did National service as an NCO in the Royal Air Force from 1950 to 1952.
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Traded items with a signature of Cecil Parkinson

The most expensive item with a signature of Cecil Parkinson (Right At The Centre By Cecil Parkinson (HB 1992)Preowned SIGNED) was sold in March 2025 for £29.66 while the cheapest item (AUTOGRAPH POLITICS CECIL PARKINSON HAND SIGNED 9x6 B&W PHOTOGRAPH) found a new owner for £0.99 in May 2019. The month with the most items sold (3) was January 2015 with an average selling price of £7.50 for an autographed item of Cecil Parkinson. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in October 2025 with £26.28 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was January 2013. In average, an autographed item from Cecil Parkinson is worth £4.38.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Cecil Parkinson were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	Cecil Parkinson MP politician signed letter original autograph	£6.50
	1992 Cecil Parkinson MP, Hand Signed Letter House of Commons Headed Notepaper	£5.00
	Cecil Parkinson Personally Signed Letter & Photo	£24.19
	Cecil Parkinson - Conservative Party Chairman - Original HS Autograph - 1983	£7.95
	CECIL PARKINSON - CONSERVATIVE POLITICIAN - SIGNED AUTOGRAPH ALBUM PAGE	£8.00
	CECIL PARKINSON - LATE GREAT CONSERVATIVE MP - SIGNED COMPLIMENT SLIP	£4.76
	Cecil Parkinson Former MP House Of Commons Westminster Hand Signed Postcard	£6.99
	Cecil Parkinson Hertsmere Conservative MP 1987 General Election Leaflet signed	£17.01
	CECIL PARKINSON MP Hand Signed Letter, Plus Others	£1.99
	Cecil Parkinson Signed Letter Politics Conservative MP House of Commons 1989	£24.22
	Cecil Parkinson. Former British MP. Margaret Thatcher. Signed Autograph Cover	£12.50
	Hand Signed Autograph Of Cecil Parkinson MP	£2.99
	Lord Cecil Parkinson signed photograph	£1.49
	Michael Foot and Cecil Parkinson autographed house of lords letters	£26.28
	Politics Signed Book - Conservative Cecil Parkinson Autobiography 1st Edition	£10.00