UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 22 January 1911

Died: 7 March 1982

1st Viscount Blakenham - 8 November 1963

Member of Privy Council - 22 December 1955

husband of Beryl Nancy Pearson

Minister of State for Colonial Affairs	1955	1956
Secretary of State for War	18 October 1956	6 January 1958
Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries	1958	1960
Minister of Labour	1960	1963
Deputy Leader of the House of Lords	1963	1964
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	20 October 1963	16 October 1964

5 July 1945	Woodbridge	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,073	47.01
23 February 1950	Sudbury & Woodbridge	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,599	48.28
25 October 1951	Sudbury & Woodbridge	Conservative & Unionist Party	27,262	56.13
26 May 1955	Sudbury & Woodbridge	Conservative & Unionist Party	25,185	53.65
8 October 1959	Sudbury & Woodbridge	Conservative & Unionist Party	26,130	53.01
8 November 1963 Elevation of Rt Hon John Hare to the Peerage - Viscount Blakenham.