Quintin McGarel Hogg

Quintin McGarel Hogg (1990)

Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St. Marylebone KG , CH , PC , QC (born October 9, 1907 in London , † October 12, 2001 in London) was a British nobleman , lawyer and politician ( Conservative Party ).

Career

Hogg was the eldest son of Douglas MacGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham . He graduated from high school in Eton and studied classical languages ​​and later law in Oxford . In 1932 he was admitted to the bar.

He fought in Egypt , Palestine and Syria during World War II and was promoted to major in 1942 . In the same year he was dismissed as not fit for duty due to an injury .

Political career

In the late 1930s, Hogg went into politics. He advocated Neville Chamberlain 's policy of appeasement . From 1938 to 1950 he sat for Oxford in the House of Commons . In the last weeks of the war he was appointed Secretary of State for Aviation.

After his father's death in 1950, he inherited his title Viscount Hailsham and had to leave the House of Commons and move into the House of Lords . In vain he asked the British government that a law would give him the opportunity to renounce his inherited title. With this request he laid the seed for the so-called Peerage Act 1963 , which allows peers to personally waive their acquired title for life. Hogg made use of this option and returned to the House of Commons for St. Marylebone in December 1963.

In previous years he had been appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in September 1956 . In 1957 he became Minister of Education. On October 14, 1959, he became Lord Keeper of the Seal and Minister of Science. In 1957 he was appointed Lord President of the Council . In July 1960 he gave the office of Lord Seal Keeper to Edward Heath .

From July to August 1963 he was together with Averell Harriman British negotiator in the nuclear ban negotiations between the USA , the USSR and Great Britain in Moscow .

In the cabinet that was newly formed on October 21, 1963, he again held the office of Lord President of the Council. From February 1964 to October 1964 he was again Minister for Education and Science. After the Labor Party electoral victory in October 1964, he worked in the Conservatives' "shadow cabinet" on domestic political issues. After the Conservatives won the election in June 1970, he became Lord Chancellor . For this he was raised for life to Baron Hailsham of St. Marylebone , of Herstmonceux in the County of Sussex, and finally got a seat again in the House of Lords. He remained Lord Chancellor until the Labor success in 1974 and held this post again under Margaret Thatcher from 1979 to 1987.

Web links

Commons : Quintin McGarel Hogg  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Literature by and about Quintin McGarel Hogg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Quintin McGarel Hogg in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
• Quintin Hogg at Hansard (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
The Viscount Cilcennin	First Lord of the Admiralty 1956–1957	The Earl of Selkirk
Earl of Home	Lord President of the Council 1957-1959	Earl of Home
Rab butler	Lord Privy Seal 1959-1960	Edward Heath
The Earl of Home	Chairman of the House of Lords 1960–1963	Lord Carrington
Earl of Home	Lord President of the Council 1960–1964	Herbert Bowden
Douglas Hogg	Viscount Hailsham 1950–1963 (title waiver)	Douglas Hogg (from 2001)