William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel
The Earl of Listowel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Listowel in 1962, by Walter Stoneman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Governor-General of Ghana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 13 November 1957 – 1 July 1960 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Monarch | Elizabeth II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prime Minister | Kwame Nkrumah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Kobina Arku Korsah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Office abolished | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 16 November 1931 – 12 March 1997 Hereditary Peerage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | The 4th Earl of Listowel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | The 6th Earl of Listowel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 28 September 1906 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 12 March 1997 | (aged 90)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse(s) | 1Judith de Marffy-Mantuana (2) Stephanie Wise (3) Pamela Day | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford Magdalene College, Cambridge King's College London(PhD) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Francis Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel,GCMG,PC(28 September 1906 – 12 March 1997), styledViscount Ennismorebetween 1924 and 1931, was anAnglo-IrishpeerandLabourpolitician. He was the lastSecretary of State for India,as well as the lastGovernor-General of Ghana.
Background and education[edit]
Lord Listowel was the eldest son ofRichard Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel,and Freda, daughter of Francis Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2ndBaron Derwent.John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham,aConservativeCabinet minister, was his younger brother.[1]He was educated atEton College,Balliol College, Oxford,Magdalene College, CambridgeandKing's College London(PhD, 1932).
Political career[edit]
Listowel served as a lieutenant in theIntelligence Corps.He entered theHouse of Lordson the death of his father in November 1931, by right of theUnited Kingdom peerageofBaron Hare,and made his maiden speech in March of the following year.[2]He was a Labour Party whip in the Lords from 1941 to 1944, and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords andUnder-Secretary of State for India and Burmafrom 1944 to 1945.[citation needed]
When Labour came to power in 1945 underClement Attlee,Listowel was appointedPostmaster General,a post he held until April 1947, and was brieflyMinister of Informationbetween February and March 1946, when the office was abolished.
In April 1947 he entered the cabinet asSecretary of State for Indiaand Burma. Prime Minister Clement Attlee, however, made all the government's major decisions regarding India.[3]After India gained independence in August 1947, his cabinet title became Secretary of State for Burma, working from theBurma Office,but in January 1948 this too was abolished, when Burma also gained independence, and Listowel then left the cabinet. He continued to serve under Attlee asMinister of State for Colonial Affairsfrom 1948 to 1950 and asJoint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheriesfrom 1950 to 1951. In 1957, he was appointedGovernor-General of Ghana,a post he held until 1960, when Ghana became a Republic. He was later Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords between 1965 and 1976. He remained an active member of the House of Lords, speaking for the last time in July 1995, aged 88.[2]
Apart from his career in national politics, Lord Listowel was a member of theLondon County Councilfor East Lewisham between 1937 and 1946, and forBattersea Northbetween 1952 and 1957. He was appointed aPrivy Counsellorin 1946[4]and aGCMGin 1957.[5]
Family[edit]
Lord Listowel married three times.[6]Firstly he marriedJudith,daughter of Raoul de Marffy-Mantuana, on 24 July 1933. They had one daughter:
- LadyDeirdre Elisabeth Mary Freda Hare (born 13 February 1935), married firstlyJohn Norton, 7th Baron Grantleyand then, after his death,Ian Curteis.
Lord and Lady Listowel were divorced in 1945. He married secondly Stephanie Sandra Yvonne Wise on 1 July 1958. They also had one daughter:
- Lady Fiona Eve Akua Hare (born 24 February 1960)
They were divorced in 1963 and on 4 October 1963 Lord Listowel married thirdly Pamela Mollie Day. They had two sons and one daughter:
- Francis Michael Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel(born 28 June 1964)
- Lady Diana France Hare (born 7 December 1965)
- HonTimothy Patrick Hare (born 1966)
Pamela, Countess Listowel, lives in Hampstead.[7]
Death[edit]
Lord Listowel died in March 1997, aged 90, and was succeeded by his elder son from his third marriage,Francis.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ab"William Francis Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel".Thepeerage.com.Retrieved13 September2014.
- ^ab"hansard.millbanksystem.com Mr William Hare".Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).Retrieved11 April2010.
- ^Kenneth Harris,Attlee(1982), pp. 362, 378.
- ^"No. 37598".The London Gazette.13 June 1946. p. 2755.
- ^"No. 41203".The London Gazette.15 October 1957. p. 6003.
- ^Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
- ^Ensor, Josie (6 June 2013)."Countess says 'mega basements' are tearing neighbourhood apart".The Daily Telegraph.
External links[edit]
- Hansard1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Listowel
- Earl of Listowel's Memoirs;redrice.com. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
- Newspaper clippings about William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowelin the20th Century Press Archivesof theZBW
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