William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel

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William Francis Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel GCMG PC (28 September 190612 March 1997), known as Viscount Ennismore from 1924 to 1931, was a British hereditary peer and Labour politician.

The eldest son of 4th Earl of Listowel and the Hon. Freda Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, he was educated at Eton College and at Balliol College, Oxford. He succeeded his father in 1931.

He served as a Lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps. He was a Labour Member of London County Council for East Lewisham from 1937-1946, and for Battersea North from 1952-1957. He served as Labour Party Whip in House of Lords from 1941-1944. He was Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, 1944-1945 and held ministerial office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, India Office, Postmaster-General from 1945-1947, Secretary of State for India from April to August 1947, Secretary of State for Burma from 1947-January 1948, Minister of State for Colonial Affairs from 1948-1950; and Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1950-1951. He then served as Governor-General of Ghana from 1957-1960. He was Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords, 1965-1976.

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1946 and awarded the GCMG in 1957.

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Political offices
Preceded by
The Earl of Munster
Under-Secretary of State for India and Burma
1944–1945
Succeeded by
The Earl of Scarbrough
Preceded by
Harry Crookshank
Postmaster-General
1945–1947
Succeeded by
Wilfred Paling
Preceded by
The Lord Pethick-Lawrence
Secretary of State for India and Burma
April–August 1947
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Preceded by
New office
Secretary of State for Burma
August 1947–January 1948
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Preceded by
Charles Noble Arden-Clarke
Governor-General of Ghana
1957–1960
Succeeded by
Office abolished and replaced
by the President of Ghana
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Richard Granville Hare
Earl of Listowel
1931-1997
Succeeded by
Francis Michael Hare

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