Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby

Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby , PC ( December 30, 1897 - October 11, 1966 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons between 1929 and 1956 and between 1944 and 1945 Finance Secretary in the Treasury ( HM Treasury ), Minister for National Insurance from 1951 to 1953 and Minister for Pensions and National Insurance from 1953 to 1955. On January 17, 1956 he was raised as Viscount Ingleby in the hereditary nobility in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and thus a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Family origins, First World War and studies

Peake was the second son of the lawyer and Major George Herbert Peake, in 1931 Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Nottinghamshire was, and his wife Evelyn Mary Dundas, whose father John Charles Dundas 1872-1892 Lord Lieutenant of Orkney and Shetland and also 1873-1885 Was a member of the House of Commons. His older brother Raymond Peake was lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards and fell on 30 September 1916 at the First World War . His younger brother Harald Peake was Brigadier General ( Air Commodore ) of the Royal Air Force and during the Second World War from 1940 to 1941 head of the public relations department in the Air Ministry . His only sister was Maud Eileen Peake, while his youngest brother, Edward Charles Peake, was a lawyer and served as a captain in the Royal Air Force during World War II.

Osbert Peake himself began studying at Christ Church at the University of Oxford after attending the renowned Eton College . After the beginning of the First World War he interrupted his studies and joined the Coldstream Guards like his eldest brother after attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . Most recently he was also promoted to first lieutenant. After the war, he continued his studies at Christ Church at the University of Oxford, graduating in 1919 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). After studying law , he was admitted as a barrister to the Inner Temple Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) in 1923 . He then worked as a lawyer for several years.

Member of the House of Commons and junior minister in the war governments

In the general election of May 30, 1930 Peake was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for the first time to the member of the House of Commons and represented in this until May 26, 1955 the constituency of Leeds North . In the war government formed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain , he took over his first government office on September 3, 1939 as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department . He remained in this junior ministerial post even after Prime Minister Winston Churchill formed his wartime government on May 10, 1940 . He held this office until his replacement by Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster on October 31, 1944. He was thus one of the closest collaborators of the then Home Secretary John Anderson and Herbert Stanley Morrison .

Peake, in 1943 a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) was made during the Second World War military service as a major in the voluntary unit Nottinghamshire Yeomanry . On October 29, 1944, he succeeded Ralph Assheton as Financial Secretary to the Treasury and as such held the post of Chancellor , Chief Secretary of the Treasury and the Churchill until the end of the interim government on July 26, 1945 Paymaster General the fourth most important position in the Treasury.

Postwar Minister and House of Lords

Osbert Peake (back row, 1st from left) as Minister for Pensions and National Insurance in Churchill's third cabinet (1955)

After the election victory of the conservative Tories in the general election on October 25, 1951 , Peake was first Minister of National Insurance on November 2, 1951 in Churchill's third cabinet . After this Ministry was merged on September 3, 1953 with the Pension Ministry previously headed by Derick Heathcoat-Amory , he took over the newly created office of Minister of Pensions and National Insurance . He also held this position in the subsequent cabinet of Prime Minister Anthony Eden until his replacement by John Boyd-Carpenter on December 20, 1955. His ministerial office had cabinet rank from October 18, 1954.

In the general election of May 26, 1955 , Peake was elected a member of the House of Commons for the last time. This time he represented after the dissolution of his previous constituency of Leeds North until his mandate waiver on February 9, 1956, however, the constituency of Leeds North East , which was previously represented by Alice Bacon of the Labor Party . His successor as a Member of the House of Commons for the constituency of Leeds North East was Keith Joseph .

By Letters patent of January 17, 1956 Peake was raised as Viscount Ingleby , of Snilesworth, in the North Riding of the County York , in the hereditary nobility of the Peerage of the United Kingdom . He belonged to his death on October 11, 1966 as a member of the House of Lords .

Marriage and offspring

Peake married Lady Joan Rachel de Vere Capell on June 19, 1922, a daughter of George Capell, 7th Earl of Essex and his wife Adele Capell, Countess of Essex . From this marriage there were four daughters and one son. The eldest daughter Iris Irene Adele Peake was married to Oliver Payan Dawnay , a captain in the Coldstream Guards who was Queen Mother Elizabeth's private secretary from 1951 to 1956 . The second eldest daughter, Sonia Mary Peake, was first married to David George Montagu Hay, 12th Marquess of Tweeddale and, after the divorce, was second married to Michael William Vernon Hammond-Maude, a major in the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards cavalry regiment .

The only son Martin Raymond Peake inherited the title of 2nd Viscount Ingleby when his father died on October 11, 2006 and held it until his death. Since his only son Richard Martin Herbert Peake had died on July 19, 1975, the title expired with the death of the 2nd Viscount on October 14, 2008.

Osbert Peakes third daughter, Imogen Clarissa Peake, died on October 29, 1937 at the age of only three and a half years. The youngest daughter, Mary Rose Peake, was married to Everard John Robert March Phillipps de Lisle, a major in the Royal Horse Guards , high sheriff, deputy lieutenant and, most recently, from 1990 until his death in 2003, was vice- lord lieutenant of the county of Leicestershire .

Web links

• Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby on thepeerage.com , accessed October 14, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 29803, HMSO, London, October 24, 1916, p. 10406 ​​( PDF , accessed October 14, 2016, English).
2. ↑ Alice Bacon was elected a member of the House of Commons in the House of Commons election on May 26, 1955 in the constituency of Leeds South East . Entry to Alice Bacon in the Hansard .
3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 40712, HMSO, London, February 17, 1956, p. 993 ( PDF , accessed October 14, 2016, English).
4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 40687, HMSO, London, January 17, 1956, p. 363 ( PDF , accessed October 14, 2016, English).

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Viscount Ingleby 1956-1966	Martin Raymond Peake