Hendrie Oakshott, Baron Oakshott
Hendrie Dudley Oakshott, Baron Oakshott MBE (* 8. November 1904 ; † 1. February 1975 ) was a politician of the Conservative Party , of fourteen years member of the House of Commons was, and in 1964 as a Life Peer due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.
Life
Oakshott did military service during World War II and was most recently promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and made a member of the Order of the British Empire . In the general election on February 23, 1950 , Oakshott was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Bebington in this until his resignation on August 31, 1964 .
After the conservative Tories won the general election on October 25, 1951 , Prime Minister Winston Churchill made him Parliamentary Private Secretary in 1951, before becoming Deputy Parliamentary Secretary ( Assistant Whip ) of his party's parliamentary group in the House of Commons between 1951 and 1952 .
Subsequently, Oakshott was appointed Lord Commissioner of the Treasury on May 28, 1952 and held this office in the Treasury until April 1955. He was then between June 1955 and 1957 as the successor to Tam Galbraith Comptroller of the Royal Household and thus after the Lord Steward of the Household and the Treasurer of the Royal Household, the third highest dignitary in the royal household . On January 19, 1957, he followed Tam Galbraith as Treasurer of the Royal Household and was thus the closest collaborator of Lord Steward Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, until January 16, 1959 .
Subsequently, Oakshott, who was bestowed the hereditary title of Baronet , of Bebington in the County Palatine of Chester on July 10, 1959 , was Parliamentary Private Secretary between 1959 and 1960 and again from 1960 to 1962.
After his departure from the House of Commons, Oakshott was raised to life peer by a letters patent dated August 21, 1964 as Baron Oakshott , of Bebbington in the County Palatine of Cheshire, and as such was a member of the House of Lords until his death. While this life peerage expired on his death, his eldest son Arthur Hendrie Oakshott inherited his baronet title.
Web links
- Hendrie Oakshott at Hansard (English)
- Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
- Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
- Hendrie Dudley Oakshott, Baron Oakshott on thepeerage.com , accessed September 12, 2016.
- Entry in the National Portrait Gallery (London)
- Entry in They Work For You
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Oakshott, Hendrie, Baron Oakshott |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oakshott, Hendrie Dudley, Baron Oakshott (full name); Sir Hendrie Oakshott, 1st Baronet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1904 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st February 1975 |