William Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood
The Right Honourable The Lord Inglewood | |
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Fletcher-Vane in 1949 | |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | |
In office 28 October 1960 – 16 July 1962 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan |
Preceded by | Joseph Godber |
Succeeded by | James Scott-Hopkins |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions | |
In office 14 April 1958 – 20 October 1960 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan |
Preceded by | Richard Wood |
Succeeded by | Patricia Hornsby-Smith |
Member of Parliament for Westmorland | |
In office 5 July 1945 – 15 October 1964 | |
Preceded by | Oliver Stanley |
Succeeded by | Michael Jopling |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 30 June 1964 – 22 June 1989 Hereditary Peerage | |
Preceded by | peerage created |
Succeeded by | 2nd Baron Inglewood |
Personal details | |
Born | 12 April 1909 |
Died | 22 June 1989 |
Political party | Conservative |
William Morgan Fletcher-Vane, 1st Baron Inglewood, TD (12 April 1909 – 22 June 1989), was a British Conservative Party politician.
Inglewood was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. William Lyonel Vane, a descendant of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard. His uncle Henry de Vere Vane had succeeded as ninth Baron Barnard in 1891 on the death of his distant relative Harry George Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland and 8th Baron Barnard. Inglewood's mother was Lady Katherine Louisa Pakenham, daughter of William Lygon Pakenham, 4th Earl of Longford (hence Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, was his first cousin). He was educated at Charterhouse and at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1931 he assumed by deed poll the additional surname of Fletcher.
Inglewood served in the Second World War in France and the Middle East as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Durham Light Infantry, and was mentioned in despatches. He was elected at the 1945 general election as Member of Parliament for Westmorland, and held the seat until his retirement from the House of Commons at the 1964 general election. He held ministerial office twice, in Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan's 1957–1964 government: as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions from 1958 to 1960, and as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1960 to 1962. He was also Leader of the United Kingdom Delegation to the World Food Congress in Washington D.C. in 1963. On 30 June 1964, he was ennobled as Baron Inglewood, of Hutton in the Forest in the County of Cumberland..
Lord Inglewood married Mary Proby, daughter of Sir Richard George Proby, 1st Baronet, in 1949. He died in June 1989, aged 80, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Richard, who also became a Conservative politician.
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
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- www.thepeerage.com
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Inglewood
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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Preceded by Oliver Stanley |
Member of Parliament for Westmorland 1945–1964 |
Succeeded by Michael Jopling |
Political offices | ||
Preceded by Edith Pitt and Richard Wood |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions 1958–1960 With: Edith Pitt, to 1959 Patricia Hornsby-Smith, from 1959 |
Succeeded by Patricia Hornsby-Smith and Bernard Braine |
Preceded by Joseph Godber and The Earl Waldegrave |
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1960–1962 With: The Earl Waldegrave |
Succeeded by James Scott-Hopkins and The Lord St Oswald |
Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
Preceded by (new creation) |
Baron Inglewood 1964–1989 |
Succeeded by Richard Fletcher-Vane |