Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes
PC | |
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Governor-General of the West Indies Federation | |
In office 3 January 1958 – 31 May 1962 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Prime Minister | Grantley Herbert Adams |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | 2 April 1901 |
Died | 5 November 1974 | (aged 73)
Alma mater | Trinity College |
Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, 1st Baron Hailes,
Background and education
Buchan-Hepburn was the youngest son of Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn, 4th Baronet (see Buchan-Hepburn baronets) and his wife Edith Agnes (née Karslake). He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2]
Career
Buchan-Hepburn was a personal secretary to
Returning to politics in 1945, Buchan-Hepburn became Deputy Whip and then, in 1948, Chief Whip. He was elected MP for the newly created Beckenham constituency in Kent[5] after his East Toxteth constituency was abolished by boundary changes before the 1950 general election. From 1951 to 1955, he was Government Chief Whip and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury. In 1957, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hailes of Prestonkirk in the County of East Lothian.[6] Lord Hailes was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in September 1957.[7]
When, in 1958, the
In the 1962 Birthday Honours Lord Hailes was appointed a
Personal life
Buchan-Hepburn married Diana Mary, daughter of Brigadier-General the Hon. Charles Lambton and war widow of Major William Hedworth Williamson, in 1945. They had no children. He was step-father to Diana's son, Sir Nicholas Frederick Hedworth Williamson, 11th Baronet.
Buchan-Hepburn died in November 1974, aged 73, whence his barony became extinct.[2]
Footnotes
- ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "E" (part 1)
- ^ a b thepeerage.com Patrick George Thomas Buchan-Hepburn, 1st and last Baron Hailes
- ^ Craig, op. cit. page, page 281
- ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 1)
- ^ "No. 41003". The London Gazette. 15 February 1957. p. 1044.
- ^ "No. 41187". The London Gazette. 27 September 1957. p. 5636.
- ^ "No. 42683". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1962. p. 4331.