Matthew Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay

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Matthew Alan Oakeshott, Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay (born 10 January 1947), is a British Liberal Democrat politician and currently Spokesperson for Treasury and for Work and Pensions.

The son of Keith Robertson Oakeshott and Eva Jill Oakeshott was at the Charterhouse School. He studied at the Nuffield College, University of Oxford and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1968.

Oakeshott worked in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning of Kenya from 1968 to 1970; from 1972 to 1976, he was Special Adviser to the Member of Parliament Roy Jenkins. After this be became director of Warburg Investment Management, a post he held until 1981. Following Oakeshott worked as manager for Courtaulds Pension Fund until 1985. One year he became founder director of OLIM Ltd. and investment director of Value and Income Trust.

He was made a life peer as Baron Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, of Seagrove Bay in the County of Isle of Wight on 1 May 2000.

Oakeshott has been married to Philippa Poulton since 1976; they have two sons and one daughter.