Martin Raymond Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby (31 May 1926 – 14 October 2008) was a British

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and businessman.

Early life and education

Ingleby was the only son of Osbert Peake, created Viscount Ingleby in 1956, and his wife Lady Joan Capell, daughter of

George Capell, 7th Earl of Essex George Devereux de Vere Capell, 7th Earl of Essex (24 October 1857 – 25 September 1916), was a British aristocrat. He succeeded to the title Earl of Essex in 1892. Early life and background Capell was born on 24 October 1857 in London, the s ...

. He was educated at Eton and

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. Prior to his disability he was a

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in the

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from 1945 to 1947. He was rendered a

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early in life due to

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. In 1955, he was

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at the

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. He succeeded to the viscountcy upon his father's death in 1966 and became a member of the

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until the enactment of the

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Later life

A director of the Hargreaves Group from 1960 to 1980, Ingleby was also interested in forestry and conservation. He was a member of the planning committee for the

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National Park, and was responsible for the planting of a row of

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s at the entrance to the park, which he intended as a thanksgiving for God's deliverance of Britain during the two World Wars. He also served on the

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during the 1960s. Ingleby and Baroness Masham, who also used a wheelchair, took a prominent part in the

in the debate on the Disabled Persons Act 1970.

Marriage and children

Ingleby married Gladys Susan Landale (died 1996) in 1952, with whom he had five children:Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 2, page 2044 *

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Richard Martin Herbert Peake (7 August 1953 - 19 July 1975) * Hon Fiona Catherine Peake (born 24 January 1955) married Gavin Tobias Alexander Winterbottom Horton in 1977 * Hon Sarah Rachel Peake (born 27 November 1958) married James Felton Hervey-Bathurst in 1982 * Hon Henrietta Cecilia Imogen Peake (born 23 October 1961) married James J. P. McNeile in 1990 * Hon Katharine Susan Emma Peake (born 23 December 1963) married James Freeman in 1996. In 1975, Ingleby suffered a personal tragedy when his only son, Richard, fell from

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and was killed. The

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recorded an

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. After the death of his first wife in 1996, Ingleby married Dobrila Radovic in 2003. They had no children.

Death

Lord Ingleby died in 2008 at the age of 82. As his only son predeceased him, and as there were no other surviving male line heirs of the 1st Viscount, the viscountcy became extinct on his death.

Arms

References

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