William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel

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William Francis Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel GCMG PC (born September 28, 1906 , † March 12, 1997 in London ) was a British peer and politician of the Labor Party .

Between 1947 and 1948 he was first Minister for India and Burma and finally Minister for Burma in the cabinet of Prime Minister Clement Attlee and from 1957 to 1960 the last British Governor General of Ghana .

Life

Origin and education

Hare was the eldest son of Richard Granville Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel from his marriage to Freda Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, daughter of Francis Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baron Derwent .

He attended the renowned Eton College and then studied at Balliol College at the University of Oxford , at Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge and at the Sorbonne at the University of Paris . In 1933 he earned a Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) at the University of London with a dissertation on A Critical History of Modern Aesthetics .

Member of the House of Lords and local politician

When his father died on November 16, 1931 he inherited his Irish nobility titles as 5th Earl of Listowel , 5th Viscount Ennismore and Listowel and 5th Baron Ennismore , as well as the British nobility title 3rd Baron Hare . The latter was linked to a hereditary seat in the House of Lords , to which he belonged for more than 65 years until his death on March 12, 1997.

He was involved in local politics and was between 1937 and 1946 a member of the London City Council , in which he represented the constituency of East Lewisham . During the Second World War , he served temporarily as a lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps .

Listowel was classified by the National Socialists in Germany as a leading opponent of their system: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office placed him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British island by the Wehrmacht, would be followed by special commands from the occupying forces The SS should be located and arrested with special priority.

Chief Whip, Minister and Governor General

In 1941 he took over the function of Parliamentary Managing Director ( Whip ) of the Labor Party faction in the House of Lords and was then Parliamentary Chief Executive (Chief Whip) between 1942 and 1944 . He was then appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India and Burma by Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the tenure of the War Cabinet in 1944 and held this position until 1945.

After the Labor Party won the general election on July 5, 1945 , Prime Minister Clement Attlee appointed him Postmaster General , although he was not a member of the cabinet .

As part of a cabinet reshuffle, Attlee appointed him on April 17, 1947 as the successor to Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence Minister for India and Burma (Secretary of State for India and Burma) , while Wilfred Paling was his successor as Postmaster General . In 1946 he was also appointed Privy Counselor .

After the partition of India and the independence of India and Pakistan he was until independence from Aug. 14, 1947 Burma's Minister of Burma (Secretary of State for Burma) before the office was subsequently abolished on January 4 1948th He then took over until 1950 Minister of State in the Colonial Office (Minister of State for Colonial Affairs) and then from February 1950 until the end of Attlee's term in October 1951 Joint Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries) . At the same time he was from 1947 to 1951 deputy chairman of the Labor Group in the House of Lords and thus Deputy Leader of the House of Lords .

On November 13, 1957, he succeeded Charles Noble Arden-Clarke as the governor general of Ghana. He was the last British Governor General of this country and held this office until June 30, 1960. In 1957 he was made Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG).

Most recently he served as Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords between 1965 and 1976 , chairing the Joint Coordinating Committee of Chairs of the Committees of the House of Lords .

Marriages and offspring

He was married three times. His first marriage to Judith de Marffy-Mantuana, daughter of the ambassador to Hungary , Raoul de Marffy-Mantuana , which was closed on July 24, 1933 and divorced in 1945 , resulted in the daughter Deirdre Elisabeth Mary Freda Hare, her first marriage to John Richard Brinsley Norton, 7th Baron Grantley , and his second marriage to screenwriter Ian Bayley Curteis.

In his second marriage he married Stephanie Sandra Yvonne Wise on July 1, 1958. From this marriage in 1963, the daughter Fiona Eve Akua Hare was born.

He last married Pamela Mollie Day on October 4, 1963. This marriage resulted in two sons and another daughter. The eldest son Francis Michael Hare inherited him in 1997 as the 6th Earl of Listowel.

publication

  • A Critical History of Modern Aesthetics , 1933
  • Preface to: A. Seehof, Das Braune Netz. How Hitler's agents work abroad and prepare for war. Carrefour, Paris 1935 (in German) online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on William Hare, Earl of Listowel on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
  2. ↑ British Ministries (rulers.org)
  3. ↑ Ghana (rulers.org)
predecessor Office successor
Richard Hare Earl of Listowel
1931-1997 		Francis Hare
personal data
SURNAME Hare, William, 5th Earl of Listowel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hare, William Francis, 5th Earl of Listowel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1906
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1997
Place of death London