Hendrie Oakshott, Baron Oakshott

Oakshott was born in Cheshire on 8 November 1904, and attended the Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a lieutenant colonel in the British Army. ==Political career==

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. Oakshott was Comptroller of the Household from 1955 to 1957 and Treasurer of the Household from 1957 to 1959. and was further honoured when he was created a life peer as Baron Oakshott, of Bebington in the County Palatine of Chester on 21 August 1964. He served as a Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chairmen of Committees from 1967 to 1968. ==Personal life and death==

Oakshott married Joan Withington in 1928, and they had two sons. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son Anthony. ==Coat of arms==

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