Hendrie Oakshott, Baron Oakshott

Hendrie Dudley Oakshott, Baron Oakshott (8 November 1904 – 1 February 1975), known as Sir Hendrie Oakshott, 1st Baronet, from 1959 to 1964, was a British Conservative Party politician.

Oakshott by Hay Wrightson

At the 1950 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bebington constituency in The Wirral Peninsula, on Merseyside. He held his seat through three further general elections, before retiring from the House of Commons at the 1964 general election. He was then succeeded as MP by the future Chancellor and Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe.

He was created a Baronet, of Bebington in the County Palatine of Chester, on 10 July 1959[1] and was further honoured when he was created a life peer as Baron Oakshott, of Bebington in the County Palatine of Chester on 21 August 1964.[2] Lord Oakshott died in February 1975, aged 70. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Anthony.

Coat of arms of Hendrie Oakshott, Baron Oakshott
Crest
In front of a mount vert thereon on oak tree Proper fructed Gold the main-stem transfixed by two arrows in fess points to the dexter also Proper a bow fesswise Or.
Escutcheon
Per chevron Azure and Gules in chief two arrows in saltire between as many branches of oak slipped and fructed Or and in base a bear passant Argent.
Motto
In Quercu Robur [3]

References

  1. "No. 41764". The London Gazette. 14 July 1959. p. 4465.
  2. "No. 43419". The London Gazette. 25 August 1964. p. 7261.
  3. Debrett's Peerage. 1973.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency Member of Parliament for Bebington
19501964
Succeeded by
Geoffrey Howe
Political offices
Preceded by
Tam Galbraith
Comptroller of the Household
1955–1957
Succeeded by
Gerald Wills
Treasurer of the Household
1957–1959
Succeeded by
Peter Legh
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Bebington)
1959–1975
Succeeded by
Sir Anthony Hendrie Oakshott


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