John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham

John Hugh Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham PC OBE DL ( January 22, 1911 - March 7, 1982 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons for 18 years and was a minister several times. After leaving the House of Commons, he was promoted to peer class in 1963 and was a member of the House of Lords until his death . In addition, he served between 1963 and 1965 as executive chairman (Chairman) of the Conservative Party.

Life

Family origins and siblings

Hare was the third son of Major Richard Granville Hare , who in 1924 inherited the title of 4th Earl of Listowel from his father William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel . His mother Freda Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone was a daughter of Francis Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baron Derwent .

His paternal great-grandfather was William Hare, 2nd Earl of Listowel , who represented the Whigs as MP for the constituency of St Albans in the House of Commons between 1841 and 1846 , while his paternal great-grandfather was Richard Hare, Viscount Ennismore , who was MP for the Whigs in the House of Commons represented the Irish constituencies of Athy and later County Cork . His paternal great, great-great-grandfather, William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel had also represented the constituencies of Cork and Athy in the House of Commons.

His eldest brother William Francis Hare , who inherited the title of 5th Earl of Listowel from his father in 1931, was also politically active, but for the Labor Party . He was Minister several times and between 1957 and 1960 the last Governor General of Ghana . His second oldest brother Richard Gilbert Hare was a professor of Slavic studies at the University of London who wrote several books on Russian literature . His second youngest sister Elizabeth Cecilia Hare was married to Major Arthur Onslow Edward Guinness, Viscount Elveden, who died in 1945 in World War II . His youngest brother, Alan Victor Hare, was, among other things, chairman of the board of the Financial Times .

World War II and Member of the House of Commons

John Hare himself was after visiting the Eton College 1937-1952 Councilor (Alderman) of the London City Council. During the Second World War he was drafted into military service and mentioned in the war report for his military achievements ( Mentioned in Despatches ) . In addition, he was first awarded the Order of the British Empire (MBE) as a member in 1943 and the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1945. In addition, he became a member of the Legion of Honor .

In the first general election held after World War II on July 5, 1945 , Hare was first elected to the House of Commons, where he represented the Woodbridge constituency until the February 23, 1950 elections . After the merger of this constituency, he was elected in the resulting new constituency of Sudbury and Woodbridge in the elections on February 23, 1950 and represented this in the House of Commons until his voluntary resignation on November 8, 1963.

Minister in the Eden and Macmillan Governments

Hare, who was Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Tories between 1952 and 1955 , assumed his first government office on December 20, 1955, as Minister of State for the Colonies in the government of Prime Minister Anthony Eden . At the same time he became a member of the Privy Council in 1955 .

As part of a government reshuffle Hare was born on 18 October 1956 successor to Anthony Head as Secretary of War (Secretary of State for War) in government Eden and kept this ministerial post in the government of Eden's successor as Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan , until its replacement by Christopher Soames on January 6, 1958.

He then followed Derick Heathcoat-Amory as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food . He held this ministerial office until a further reshuffle of the Macmillan government on July 27, 1960 when he was again replaced by Christopher Soames. He himself succeeded Edward Heath as Minister of Labor and National Service in this cabinet reshuffle . He held this ministerial office until the end of Prime Minister Macmillan's term of office and was then replaced by Joseph Godber on October 20, 1963 .

He himself took over the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the government of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home on October 20, 1963 from Iain Macleod and held this office until the end of Douglas-Home's tenure on October 16, 1964 due to the election defeat of the Conservative Party in the general election on October 15, 1964 .

House of Lords, Chairman of the Conservative Party and Family

After his resignation and the associated resignation from the House of Commons, Hare was given the hereditary title of Viscount Blakenham , of Little Blakenham in the County of Suffolk, on November 8, 1963 . He was a member of the House of Lords until his death. During this time he was between 1963 and 1964 as Deputy Leader of the House of Lords and deputy chairman of the conservative majority faction in the House of Lords .

In addition, on October 20, 1963, he succeeded the two previous co- chairmen Oliver Poole, 1st Baron Poole and Iain Macleod as sole executive chairman (Chairman) of the Conservative Party and remained in this position until he was replaced by Edward du Cann on 28 July 1965.

Viscount Blakenham, the 1968 also Deputy Lieutenant (DL) was, was recognized for his contributions to the art of gardening in 1974 with the Victoria Medal of Honor of the Royal Horticultural Society awarded (RHS).

Hare was married to Beryl Nancy Pearson, daughter of Weetman Harold Miller Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray , since January 31, 1934 . From this marriage two daughters and the son Michael John Hare emerged, who inherited the title of 2nd Viscount Blakenham after the death of his father in 1982. The eldest daughter had been married since 1964 to the former High Sheriff of Oxfordshire , Timothy Mark Sergison-Brooke, who died in 2005 and was the son of the highly decorated Lieutenant General Sir Bertram Norman Sergison-Brooke . The youngest daughter, Joanna Freda Hare, has been married to Stephen Breyer since September 4, 1967 , who has been a US Supreme Court judge since 1994 .

Web links

• Mr John Hare at Hansard (English)
• Blakenham, Viscount (UK, 1963) in Cracroft's Peerage
• Peerage: Blakenham in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• John Hugh Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham on thepeerage.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 43153, HMSO, London, November 8, 1963, p. 9127 ( PDF , English).

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Viscount Blakenham 1963-1982	Michael Hare