The Right HonourableThe Earl of Listowel | |
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Member of the House of Lords | |
Lord Temporal | |
as a hereditary peer 12 March 1997 – 11 November 1999 | |
Preceded by | The 5th Earl of Listowel |
Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
as an elected hereditary peer 11 November 1999 – 21 July 2022 | |
Election | 1999 |
Preceded by | Seat established |
Succeeded by | The Lord Hampton |
Personal details | |
Born | (1964-06-28) 28 June 1964 (age 60) |
Political party | Crossbencher |
Francis Michael Hare, 6th Earl of Listowel (born 28 June 1964), styled Viscount Ennismore until 1997, is an Irish and British peer. He first sat in the House of Lords by right of his United Kingdom peerage of Baron Hare and was later one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, where he sat as a crossbencher. He retired from the House on 21 July 2022.
Lord Listowel is a member of the Ascendancy, the old Anglo-Irish ruling class.
The son of William Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel, and Pamela Mollie Day, and nephew of John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham, he was educated at Westminster School and Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, where he graduated with a BA degree in English literature in 1992. In 1997, he succeeded to his father's titles. The earldom is named after Listowel, a town in the north of County Kerry in Ireland.
References
- Retired under Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.
- "The Earl of Listowel". UK Parliament. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
Sources
- "DodOnline". Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 11 February 2007.
- Profile, members.parliament.uk. Accessed 17 December 2022.
External links
Peerage of Ireland | ||
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Preceded byWilliam Hare | Earl of Listowel 1997–present |
Incumbent Heir presumptive: Hon. Timothy Hare |
Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
Preceded byWilliam Hare | Baron Hare 1997–present Member of the House of Lords (1997–1999) |
Incumbent Heir presumptive: Hon. Timothy Hare |
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
New office created by the House of Lords Act 1999 |
Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999 Sat as Baron Hare 1999–2022 |
Succeeded byThe Lord Hampton |