Hendrie Oakshott, Baron Oakshott
- Hendrie Oakshott, Baron Oakshott
Hendrie Dudley Oakshott, Baron Oakshott (8 November 1904–1 February 1975), known as Sir Hendrie Oakshott, 1st Baronet, from 1959 to 1964, was a British Conservative Party politician.
At the 1950 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Bebington constituency in The Wirral Peninsula, on Merseyside. He held his seat through three further general elections, before retiring from the House of Commons at the 1964 general election. He was then succeeded as MP by the future Chancellor and Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe.
He was created a Baronet, of Bebington in the County Palatine of Chester, in 1959 and was further honoured when he was created a life peer as Baron Oakshott, of Bebington in the County Palatine of Cheshire in 1964. Lord Oakshott died in February 1975, aged 70, The life peerage became extinct on his death while he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Anthony.
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