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

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, on Merseyside. He held his seat through three further general elections, before retiring from the House of Commons at the

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. He was then succeeded as MP by the future

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and

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, Geoffrey Howe. He was created a Baronet, of Bebington in the County Palatine of Chester, on 10 July 1959 and was further honoured when he was created a

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as Baron Oakshott, of Bebington in the County Palatine of Chester on 21 August 1964. Lord Oakshott died in February 1975, aged 70. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Anthony.

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* , - 1904 births 1975 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Conservative Party (UK) life peers Oakshott, Sir Hendrie, 1st Baronet Treasurers of the Household UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs 1959–1964 UK MPs who were granted peerages Ministers in the third Churchill government, 1951–1955 Ministers in the Eden government, 1955–1957 Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964 Life peers created by Elizabeth II {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1900s-stub