Viscount Blakenham

Viscountcy of Blakenham

Creation date 8 November 1963
Monarch Queen Elizabeth II
Peerage Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder John Hugh Hare
Present holder Caspar Hare, 3rd Viscount
Remainder to the 1st Viscount's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten.

Viscount Blakenham, of Little Blakenham in the County of Suffolk, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[1] It was created in 1963 for the Conservative politician and former Secretary of State for War, the Hon. John Hare. He was the third son of Richard Hare, 4th Earl of Listowel (see Earl of Listowel for earlier history of the family). As of 2018 the title is held by his grandson, the third Viscount, a professor at MIT who succeeded his father, a former chairman of Pearson PLC, in that year. As a great-grandson of the fourth Earl of Listowel, he is also in remainder (as of 2018 second in line) to this peerage and its subsidiary titles.

Viscounts Blakenham (1963)

The heir apparent is Caspar's son Inigo Hare[2].

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Notes

  1. ↑ "No. 43153". The London Gazette. 8 November 1963. p. 9127.
  2. ↑ June Mohr obituary

References

  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
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