William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel

William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel

William Francis Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel GCMG PC (28 September 1906–12 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, Balliol College, Oxford and Magdalene College, Cambridge. 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.

External links

* [http://www.redrice.com/listowel/ Memoirs]


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