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.

Oakshott by Hay Wrightson

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

Coat of arms of Hendrie Oakshott, Baron Oakshott

Crest In front of a mount vert thereon on oak tree Proper fructed Gold the main-stem transfixed by two arrows in fess points to the dexter also Proper a bow fesswise Or. Escutcheon Per chevron Azure and Gules in chief two arrows in saltire between as many branches of oak slipped and fructed Or and in base a bear passant Argent. Motto In Quercu Robur [3]

References

1. "No. 41764". The London Gazette. 14 July 1959. p. 4465.
2. "No. 43419". The London Gazette. 25 August 1964. p. 7261.
3. Debrett's Peerage. 1973.

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Hendrie Oakshott