Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby

British peer and politician (1897–1966)

The Right Honourable

The Viscount Ingleby

Minister of Pensions and National Insurance
Minister of National Insurance (1951–1953)
In office
31 October 1951 – 20 December 1955
Prime Minister| Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Preceded by| Edith Summerskill
Succeeded by| John Boyd-Carpenter
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office
1944–1945
Preceded by| Ralph Assheton
Succeeded by| Glenvil Hall
Personal details
Born| (1897-12-30)30 December 1897
Died| 11 October 1966(1966-10-11) (aged 68)
Osmotherley, North Yorkshire, England
Nationality| British
Political party| Conservative
Spouse|

Lady Joan Rachel de Vere Capell

(m. 1922)​

Education| Eton College
Alma mater| Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Christ Church, Oxford
Occupation| Politician

Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby, PC (30 December 1897 – 11 October 1966) was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Minister of National Insurance and then as Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from 1951 to 1955.

## Early life

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Peake was educated at Eton before training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He served with the Coldstream Guards during the First World War, before joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry.

He entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1919 and graduated in history in 1921. In 1923 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple.

## Career

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After unsuccessfully contesting Dewsbury in 1922, Peake entered Parliament as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North in 1929.

In April 1939, he was appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department and in October 1944 he became Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Whilst in opposition, he became a leading spokesman for the Beveridge social reform proposals, and on the Conservatives return to power in 1951 he became Minister of National Insurance (Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from September 1953 and a member of the Cabinet from October 1954).

In December 1955, shortly after Anthony Eden succeeded Winston Churchill as Prime Minister in April, Peake resigned from the government.

## Personal life

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On 19 June 1922 Peake married Lady Joan Rachel de Vere Capell (1899–1979),[1] younger daughter of George Capell, 7th Earl of Essex and Adele Capell, Countess of Essex. They had five children:[1]

* Iris Irene Adele Peake, MVO (1923–2021), a lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret from 1952 to 1963, married Captain Oliver Payan Dawnay, CVO in 1963.[2][3]
* Sonia Mary Peake (1924–2009), married David Hay, 12th Marquess of Tweeddale, mother of twin sons Edward Hay, 13th Marquess of Tweeddale and David Hay, 14th Marquess of Tweeddale.[4]
* Martin Raymond Peake, 2nd (and last) Viscount Ingleby (1926–2008)[5]
* Imogen Clarissa Peake (1934–1937)[5]
* Mary Rose Peake (b. 1940), who married Everard John Robert March Phillipps de Lisle.[5]

### Honours

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Peake became a Privy Counsellor in 1943 and was raised to the peerage on 17 January 1956 as Viscount Ingleby, of Snilesworth in the North Riding of the County of York. On his death in 1966, he was succeeded in the viscountcy by his only son, Martin.[5]

## Arms

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Coat of arms of Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby  |

Coronet
Coronet of a viscount
Crest
A Heart Gules between two Wings displayed Erminois
Escutcheon
Sable three Crosses patée Argent within an Orle of eight Fleur-de-lys and a Bordure Or
Supporters
On either side a Blackfaced Swaledale Ram proper holding in the mouth a Rose Argent barbed seeded slipped and leaved also proper
Motto
Quae Supra Quaerenda (What is on high is worth seeking) [6]

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## Footnotes

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1. ^ a b "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com.
2. ^ "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com.
3. ^ "Capt. Oliver Payan Dawnay, CVO". geni_family_tree.
4. ^ "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com.
5. ^ a b c d "Ingleby, Viscount (UK, 1956 - 2008)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
6. ^ "Ingleby, Viscount (UK, 1956 - 2008)".

## References

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* Pottle, Mark (2004). "Peake, Osbert, first Viscount Ingleby (1897–1966)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/75167. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

## External links

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* Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Osbert Peake

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Preceded by

Sir Gervase Beckett, Bt.

|  Member of Parliament for Leeds North
1929 – 1955 | Constituency abolished
Preceded by

Alice Bacon

|  Member of Parliament for Leeds North East
1955 – 1956 | Succeeded by

Keith Joseph

Political offices
Preceded by

Geoffrey Lloyd

|  Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
1939–1944  | Succeeded by

The Earl of Munster

Preceded by

Ralph Assheton

|  Financial Secretary to the Treasury
1944–1945  | Succeeded by

Glenvil Hall

Preceded by

Edith Summerskill

|  Minister of Social Insurance
1951–1953  | Office abolished
New office |  Minister of Pensions and National Insurance
1953–1955  | Succeeded by

John Boyd-Carpenter

Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation |  Viscount Ingleby
1956–1966  | Succeeded by

Martin Peake

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Ministers of Pensions|

* Barnes
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* Tryon
* Roberts
* Tryon
* Hudson
* Ramsbotham
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Ministers of Social Insurance/National Insurance|

* Jowitt
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* Peake

Ministers of Pensions and National Insurance|

* Peake
* Boyd-Carpenter
* Macpherson
* Wood
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* Crossman
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Secretaries of State for Social Security|

* Moore
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Secretaries of State for Work and Pensions|

* Darling
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* Hain
* Purnell
* Cooper
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* Crabb
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* C. Smith
* Stride

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