Osbert Peake (1897 - 1966)

Born 30 Dec 1897 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Joan Rachel de Vere (Capell) Peake — married 19 Jun 1922 in England

Descendants

Died 11 Oct 1966 at age 68 in Ryedale, Yorkshire North Riding, England

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Osbert Peake was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby, PC (30 December 1897 – 11 October 1966) was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Minister of National Insurance and then as Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from 1951 to 1955.

Early and personal life

Peake was educated at Eton before training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He served with the Coldstream Guards during the First World War, before joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. He entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1919 and graduated in history in 1921. In 1923 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple.

On 19 June 1922, he married Lady Joan Capell (the younger daughter of the Earl and Countess of Essex) and they had five children. One of his daughters, Sonia, married David Hay, 12th Marquess of Tweeddale.

Political career

After unsuccessfully contesting Dewsbury in 1922, he entered Parliament as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North in 1929. In April 1939, he was appointed asParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department and in October 1944 he became Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Whilst in opposition, he became a leading spokesman for the Beveridge social reform proposals, and on the Conservatives return to power in 1951 he became Minister of National Insurance (Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from September 1953 and a member of the Cabinet from October 1954). In December 1955, shortly after Anthony Eden succeededWinston Churchill as Prime Minister in April, Peake resigned from the government.

Peake became a Privy Counsellor in 1943 and was raised to the peerage on 17 January 1956 as Viscount Ingleby, of Snilesworth in the North Riding of the County of York.[1] On his death in 1966, he was succeeded by his eldest son, Martin.

Sources

Osbert Peake Registration Date: Apr 1922 [May 1922] [Jun 1922] Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun Registration district: St. George Hanover Square Inferred County: London Spouse: Capell Joan R C De Vere Capell Volume Number: 1a Page Number: 1075

• http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/ingleby1956.htm#INGLEBY_1956_1
• http://thepeerage.com/p3677.htm#i36765

Osbert Peake Death Age: 68 Birth Date: abt 1898 Registration Date: Oct 1966 [Nov 1966] [Dec 1966] Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec Registration district: Ryedale Inferred County: Yorkshire North Riding Volume: 1b Page: 340

Osbert Peake Birth Year: 1897 Burial Year: 1966 Burial Place: Whorlton, Yorkshire, England Death Age: 69 Cemetery: The Old Church of the Holy Cross Notes: Viscount Ingleby of Snilesworth; Privy Councillor.