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.

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 Cheshire on 21 August 1964.[2] Lord Oakshott died in February 1975, aged 70. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Anthony.

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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
19551957
Succeeded by
Gerald Wills
Treasurer of the Household
19571959
Succeeded by
Peter Legh
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baronet
(of Bebington)
19591975
Succeeded by
Sir Anthony Hendrie Oakshott


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