High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Baron Chelmer, of Margaretting in the County of Essex MC, previously Sir Eric Cyril Boyd Edwards, (9 October 1914–3 March 1997) was an English solicitor and organiser for the Conservative Party. He was Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations from 1957 to 1965, and Joint Treasurer of the party from 1965 to 1977.