Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby

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Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby PC (30 December 1897 – 11 October 1966) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Peake was educated at Eton, Sandhurst and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1919. He then served with the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry and with the Coldstream Guards in World War I. He later became a barrister in the Inner Temple in 1923 and entered Parliament as MP for Leeds North in 1929.

On 19 June 1922, he married Lady Joan Capell (a younger daughter of the 7th Earl of Essex) and they had four children. Peake was raised to the peerage in 1956 as Viscount Ingleby. On his death in 1966, he was succeeded by his eldest son, Martin.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Gervase Beckett	Member of Parliament for Leeds North 1929–1955	Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Preceded by Alice Bacon	Member of Parliament for Leeds North East 1955–1956	Succeeded by Keith Joseph
Political offices
Preceded by Geoffrey Lloyd	Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department 1929–1955	Succeeded by The Earl of Munster
Preceded by Ralph Assheton	Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1944–1945	Succeeded by William Hall
Preceded by Edith Summerskill	Minister of Social Insurance 1951–1953	Succeeded by Position abolished
Preceded by Position created	Minister of Pensions and National Insurance 1953–1955	Succeeded by John Boyd-Carpenter
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New creation	Viscount Ingleby 1956–1966	Succeeded by Martin Peake