Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker

The Right Honourable
The Lord Blaker
KCMG PC
Blaker in 1978
Member of Parliament for Blackpool South
In office
16 October 1964 – March 1992
Preceded by Roland Robinson
Succeeded by Nick Hawkins
Personal details
Born 4 October 1922
Died 5 July 2009 (aged 86)
Alma mater New College, Oxford

Peter Allan Renshaw Blaker, Baron Blaker, KCMG, PC (4 October 1922 – 5 July 2009) was an English Conservative politician.

Early life

Blaker was born in Hong Kong, son of Cedric Blaker. He was educated at Shrewsbury School before being evacuated to Canada in 1939. There he took a degree in classics, before being commissioned in the Canadian Army. On return to England he went to New College, Oxford. He qualified as a lawyer, and later joined the Foreign Office.

Political career

In 1964 he was elected Member of Parliament for Blackpool South, which he represented until 1992. In Parliament, he served as a Minister for the Army (1972–74), Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1974 and 1979–81). He was a Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence from 29 May 1981,[1] until 9 June 1983.[2] He was sworn of the Privy Council in the 1983 Birthday Honours,[3] and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) on 21 July 1983.[4]

House of Lords

On 10 October 1994 he was created a life peer as Baron Blaker, of Blackpool in the County of Lancaster and of Lindfield in the County of West Sussex.[5]

Styles and arms

Styles of address

  • 1922–1964: Mr Peter Blaker
  • 1964–1983: Mr Peter Blaker MP
  • 1983: The Rt Hon. Peter Blaker MP
  • 1983–1992: The Rt Hon. Sir Peter Blaker KCMG MP
  • 1992–1994: The Rt Hon. Sir Peter Blaker KCMG
  • 1994–2009: The Rt Hon. The Lord Blaker KCMG PC

Coat of arms

Personal life

Blaker married, Jennifer Dixon in 1953, they had one son and two daughters.[6]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Keele: Ministerial membership of MOD 1970-97
  2. ↑ Keele: Ministers who left the MoD who haven't gone elsewhere in Government
  3. ↑ "No. 49375". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1983. p. 1.
  4. ↑ "No. 49424". The London Gazette (Supplement). 21 July 1983. p. 9700.
  5. ↑ "No. 53818". The London Gazette. 13 October 1994. p. 14327.
  6. ↑ "Lord Blaker (obituary)". The Telegraph. 7 July 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2018.

References

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Roland Robinson		 Member of Parliament for Blackpool South
1964–1992		 Succeeded by
Nick Hawkins


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